Chapter 5
Improvement Maintenance
Improve the reliability, maintainability, and safety of your object with comprehensive improvement maintenance. This combination of technical, administrative, and managerial actions will help to ensure that your object is operating at its best.
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Improvement Maintenance According to Standard
Combination of all technical, administrative and managerial actions, intended to ameliorate the intrinsic reliability and/or maintainability and/or safety of an object, without changing the original function.
For maintenance, this means all measures aimed at prolonging service life and eliminating future defects.
The purpose of an improvement could be to:
- Eliminate defects
- Extend MTTM
- Improve safety
- Improve MTTR
- Improve maintainability
Improvement maintenance excludes measures aimed at improving the machinery in terms of speed and quality. The same applies to the adaption of equipment for a new product or new packaging. These measures are called Modifications.

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- 1. Maintenance Vision, Strategy & Policy
- 2. Maintenance Standards
- 3. Preventive Maintenance
- 4. Corrective Maintenance
- 5. Improvement Maintenance
- 6. Modification
- 7. Maintenance Organisation
- 8. Maintenance Account Plan
- 9. Maintenance Goals & KPIs
- 10. MaintMaster Implementation CMMS
- 11. Maintenance Planning & Preparation
- 12. LEAN Maintenance
- 13. Spare Parts Management
- 14. Systematic Health Safety Management
- 15. Create your own Maintenance Manual
- 16. Learn the basics of a CMMS