Corrective maintenance addresses breakdowns and repairs
Corrective or reactive maintenance is nothing more than dealing with faults, failures, or malfunctions. Corrective maintenance reacts to a fault, so it is only dealt with after the fault has occurred - unlike preventive maintenance.
What corrective maintenance typically involves
- repair of reported failures
- repair of detected faults from monitoring
- repair of defects detected during a periodic inspection
- resolving an incident
Fault and failure reporting
Failure reporting is the most common trigger for reactive maintenance. Therefore, it is necessary to have a working fault and failure reporting system where employees can report a fault and someone will take care of it according to the set workflow.
Maintenance records
Once the fault has been rectified by the maintenance worker, a record of the repair must be made in the maintenance log of the equipment. Records of maintenance and repair activities performed on equipment are used for follow-up and failure assessment or simply to have a clear overview in your operating log of what activities have been performed on the equipment.
