Corrective maintenance designates that set of actions carried out by a suitable professional to solve a problem in a system or machine, which caused its normal operation to be interrupted.
Class of maintenance that is carried out on a system or machine to repair a break that interrupted its operation
It is a concept that is used especially in the labor and economic spheres, because it precisely implies carrying out the aforementioned actions in order to prevent production from being threatened by any damage, to increase productivity and reduce costs.
This maintenance specializes in the identification of breaks or damage and repairs them so that production does not stop, and therefore, the profitability of a company is not affected.
Now, we must say that this type of maintenance cannot be foreseen because it is implemented once the defect appears.
Therefore, it can lead to costs that were not contemplated and unbalance the accounting of the company, but of course, you cannot not start it because otherwise production will be affected and that is an even greater problem than having to dispense a unforeseen expense.
What many companies do to avoid financial destabilization is to allocate economic resources to face this type of eventuality.
Another advantage will be to have technical professionals specialized in maintenance who are part of the stable staff of the company, who can be turned to when these problems arise.
The concept of maintenance designates those actions, activities, whose purpose is to maintain a device, machinery, a product, among others, or failing that, the restoration of any of these so that it can display its functionality satisfactorily.
A qualified professional who examines the machine to find the error or malfunction
It should be noted that this type of activity is carried out by individuals with vast experience and in-depth knowledge of the equipment or machine they maintain.
Meanwhile, the work will involve a series of actions that generally start from its inspection.
In this first phase, the professional in charge of maintenance will carry out measurements, checks, with the mission of finding the fault of the device in the event that it finds it, or to corroborate that the machine is working as expected.
In the event that a failure is discovered, it will be fixed through the corresponding techniques and actions so that the product or device recovers its original activity.
There are two types of maintenance, on the one hand, the upkeep maintenance what is the one from which the typical wear and tear caused by prolonged use, climatic agents, among others, will be balanced.
And on the other hand the update maintenance which is the one whose purpose is to update the new technological proposals, which at the time of the device's manufacture were not taken into account or did not exist directly, but which are currently required as essential.
Now, within conservation maintenance we will find two types, the corrective which is the one that concerns us in this review and the call preventive.
So he Corrective maintenance It will be the one that focuses exclusively on correcting the defects that can be seen in the operation and facilities to repair them and return the correct functionality.
Of course, this type can have two modalities, one that is known as immediate and that it will be carried out following the observation of the failure with the means available; while the deferred, will imply the paralysis of the equipment in question and then carry out its arrangement.
And in preventive maintenance, as its name already anticipates, what is carried out is a check that guarantees the operation of the equipment to avoid the succession of the failure.
Computer programs that detect errors or breaks
In recent decades, the fantastic development of new technologies also had an impact in this maintenance context, and so it is that specialized computer programs have been developed in the detection of errors, breakages, among others.
In addition to reducing the costs involved in any maintenance, these programs allow you to store a history that can be an ideal assistant when having to face new damages, which are similar to others that have occurred previously, and so you have a solution to them, reduces cost and time.
It is extremely important that companies integrate these new technologies into their production processes to make them more profitable and safer.
