MAINTANANCE MANAGEMENT

Maintenance management is considered as one of the mist neglected aspect of management. Maintainance is the combination of many activities or actions being carried out to maintain activities and equipment and restored them to acceptable standard or condition. In fact maintanance ensure that the entire product system is kept reliable, productive and efficient maintainance is a preventive and not unless management give due attention to the future of plant they will find it themselves in trouble and sometime, or another through some item or plant or equipment training or breakdown
There is difference between repair ba plant and Maintainance of plant. Repairs entails striping down, replacement and removal of one plant and some other form of major overdue on the other and Maintainance include such through which are routine check, duplication adjustment or replacement of part that become damaged or wornout during normal use.

OBJECTIVE OF MAINTAINANCE
1. To minimize the availability and reliability of assets
2. To extend the useful life of assets
3. To ensure operational readiness of equipment.

TYPES OF MAINTAINACE
Preventive Maintainance; This is an organized Maintainance work carried out to prevent breakdown by a well conceived plant of inspection, lubrication, adjustment, repairs it can be true base or condition base

(2) corrective Maintainance; This is an organized work intended to restore an item to the acceptable standards. It involves minor repairs that may spring out.

(3) Shut down Maintainance ; This is a work activity that is carried out when failure iccurs. It is Carried out when things go wrong with the equipment.

(4) Routine Maintainance ; This occurs from time to time when there is breakdown  or whether there is breakdown or not.

(5) Schedule Maintainance; This is a Maintainance carried out specifying the date and possible time it should be done e.g three weeks or every week in month, every two weeks e.t.c