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It is customary to consider two types of maintenance: corrective and preventive maintenance. Corrective maintenance is concerned with repair actions after a failure has occurred (although if the system contains redundancy the system may not have failed). Preventive maintenance is that concerned with preventing failures (before they occur) by replacement before wear-out, regular oiling etc. Normal maintenance activities will usually consist of both types of maintenance work.
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Beasley, M. (1991). The Behaviour of Maintained Systems. In: Reliability for Engineers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21369-6_10
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