What preventive maintenance is
Preventive maintenance is servicing carried out on a planned schedule to keep equipment working and to reduce the chance of an unplanned breakdown. It is the opposite of reactive maintenance, where a team responds after something has already failed.
A preventive schedule is usually driven by time or by usage: a filter checked every month, a pump serviced every quarter, a piece of equipment inspected after a set number of running hours. The aim is to catch wear before it causes a failure that closes a facility or creates a safety risk. Keeping a history of what was done to each asset, and when, helps a team plan the next service and account for the equipment they run.
For multi-site operators, the challenge is consistency. The same preventive routine needs to happen at every venue, work orders need to be raised and closed, and someone needs visibility of what is overdue across the whole estate.
Preventive maintenance in the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Control is a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) for multi-site teams. It manages assets and work orders and schedules preventive maintenance, and it keeps a history of each asset so servicing can be planned rather than left to chance.
Control also posts fixed-asset depreciation to the ledger, so the maintenance and finance sides of an asset stay connected. To see how it works, explore Control.