Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance is a procedure of inspecting, testing and reconditioning a system at regular intervals according to specific instructions, instead to prevent failures in service or to retard deterioration. It is also to prevent the failure of equipment before it occurs. These activities can include regular inspection along with solving any discovered problems and regularly-scheduled parts changes.


There are many examples of Preventive Maintenance, the most commons ones are Defrag hard drive, Vacuum inside of case, Run a virus scan of the memory and hard disk, Create a backup if you have updated an important data or program files, Check chips for chip lift and reseat if necessary and many more.

The function of Preventive Maintenance is to designed to prevent the need for corrective maintenance, more commonly called repair work. Corrective maintenance tends to be more time-consuming and expensive.


They are many benefits of Preventive Maintenance:

• To increases the efficiency and speed of our equipment.
• Help to save budget from being repair and replacement.
• Saves time since when we spending too much on machine breakdown when we need our machine the most and then spend time to get back in shape.
• Can be reduce the cost when we work done is faster and machine doesn't break down in the middle of the work schedule.
• Helps to avoid the replacing of the parts of the equipment before the scheduled time.

The Procedures of Preventive Maintenance:

• Hard Drive Maintenance - It because that inside it are most important devices to maintain on computer and it contains an operating system and long-term storage space for data where all programs are inside like music, videos, documents and other files that been stored in hard drive.
• Internet Security - Is to preventing and getting rid of viruses and other malware on the internet. And must be run a fully updated antivirus program when using Internet atleast perform once a week.
• Case Cleaning - To keep out from dust inside the computer which can cause computer more hotter when it runs which may cause computer crashes and hardware failure.