MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITY.

It is obvious and important that responsibilities assigned to the maintenance department be clearly defined and that the limits of authority and responsibility be established on all concerned.
Maintenance is to ensure installed equipment remains fit for purpose throughout the designed life. It provides maximum overall availability without on hygiene, safety and environment. And it also enhance cost effective operations, optimum use of manpower with less fatigue and more output. It provides means of adequate work preparation, appropriate tools procedures, professionalism and good state of mind. Maintenance is divided into various categories, but the basic concept are:
1.Preventive and 2.Corrective. The preventive maintenance concepts is conducted to reduce either the  probability of failure of an item on the deterioration of a required function. While the corrective maintenance concept are performed after a complete failure had occurred. Others are schedule or periodic, predictive, involving predetermined interval of time, number of operational mileage.