Maintenance
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Maintenance may refer to:
- Biological science
- Maintenance respirationMaintenance respirationMaintenance respiration refers to metabolism occurring in an organism that is needed to maintain that organism in a healthy, living state...
- Maintenance of an organismMaintenance of an organismMaintenance of an organism is the collection of processes to stay alive, excluding production processes.The Dynamic Energy Budget theory delineates two classes...
- Maintenance respiration
- Non-technical maintenance:
- High-maintenance, slang expression
- Child supportChild supportIn family law and public policy, child support is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage or other relationship...
or alimonyAlimonyAlimony is a U.S. term denoting a legal obligation to provide financial support to one's spouse from the other spouse after marital separation or from the ex-spouse upon divorce...
, also called spousal support - ChampertyChampertyChamperty and maintenance are doctrines in common law jurisdictions, that aim to preclude frivolous litigation. "Maintenance" is the intermeddling of a disinterested party to encourage a lawsuit...
, assistance provided to a litigant by one who does not have a bona-fide interest in a lawsuit - Feudal maintenanceFeudal maintenanceUnder feudal systems of government maintenance was the money payment to soldiers who fought in the interest and at the command of their lord. Such soldiers comprised private armies, each with uniquely identifiable livery. The system of feudal government under which maintenance was paid was most...
, system of funding armies
- Technical maintenance:
- Aircraft maintenanceAircraft maintenanceAircraft maintenance is the overhaul, repair, inspection or modification of an aircraft or aircraft component.Maintenance includes the installation or removal of a component from an aircraft or aircraft subassembly, but does not include:...
- Maintenance, repair and operationsMaintenance, Repair and OperationsMaintenance, repair, and operations or maintenance, repair, and overhaul involves fixing any sort of mechanical or electrical device should it become out of order or broken...
- Car maintenanceCar maintenanceAuto maintenance describes the act of inspecting or testing the condition of car subsystems and servicing or replacing parts and fluids....
- Railroad track maintenance
- Software maintenanceSoftware maintenanceSoftware Maintenance in software engineering is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes....
- Aircraft maintenance
- General types of technical maintenance:
- Condition-based maintenance
- Corrective maintenanceCorrective maintenanceCorrective maintenance can be defined as a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate, and rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, or system can be restored to an operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations...
- Planned maintenance
- Predictive maintenancePredictive maintenancePredictive maintenance techniques help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed...
- Preventive maintenancePreventive maintenancePreventive maintenance has the following meanings:#The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or...
- Proactive maintenanceProactive maintenanceProactive maintenance is a maintenance strategy for stabilizing the reliability of machines or equipment. Its central theme involves directing corrective actions aimed at failure root causes, not active failure symptoms, faults, or machine wear conditions....
- Reliability centered maintenanceReliability Centered MaintenanceReliability Centered Maintenance, often known as RCM, is a process to ensure that assets continue to do what their users require in their present operating context....
- Value driven maintenanceValue driven maintenanceVDM - Value Driven Maintenance is a maintenance management methodology.VDM was developed by Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay. Both former chairmen of the Dutch Maintenance Association and authors of the book entitled “Value Driven Maintenance, New Faith in Maintenance”.-Value drivers in...