Preventive maintenance philosophy

Has a maintenance philosophy been established that defines the balance between inspection, preventive maintenance and repair ... 

The maintenance of safety installations is not only primarily preventive, but is also based on a correct representation of system philosophy. Some preventive maintenance interventions are actions normally considered remedial because they are undertaken on latent defects, not on failures. These actions are preventive in the sense that they must be done even if the defects have no effect. As well as reducing the likelihood of a second defect, this prevention has an unnamed function, which is to avoid the establishment of a habitual offence . Indeed, there is risk in allowing smooth functioning with persistent, non-serious defects. Nevertheless, the development of automation (substitution of humans by technical objects) tends to temporarily erase those risks and make them forgotten. 

The recent Preventive Maintenance (PM) developments have seen to have a more generic framework with an aim of maximising the profitability of a working system, which is also demonstrated by another maintenance management approach Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) developed by Nakajima of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) (Nakajima (1997)). In such a philosophy of maximising profitability, different elements such as down time, cost, safety criticality may need to be studied together. 

The design philosophy determines the emphasis placed on controlling corrosion by this means, as opposed to spending resources at the construction stage to prevent corrosion. Planned maintenance should be avoided when maintenance labor costs are high or spares may be difficult to procure. 

New evaporation systems are designed to be controlled and supervised from modern control centers that assure safe, efficient, operation. The basic design philosophy is that all control systems be designed to fail safe in the event of instrument air failure, power failure, combination of both, or other utility service failure. Further, the control equipment should be designed to prevent release of flammable or toxic materials, and should be designed to permit safe maintenance of Instrumentation. 

Osteopathic medicine is not merely a combination of traditional Western medicine and osteopathic manipulations. Rather, the principles and philosophy of osteopathic medicine apply not only to manipulative treatment but also to complete health care of the individual. This includes surgery, obstetrics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, and any other areas of care traditionally associated with conventional Western medicine. In fact, osteopathic principles and philosophy permeate all aspects of health maintenance and disease prevention and treatment. 

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