Preventive maintenance should maintain the high availability of technical systems, for example, production plants, in the long term.

You can only use this component in conjunction with the following components:

• Equipment and/or Functional Locations
• Maintenance Orders

For performance-based preventive maintenance, you must also select the 'Measuring Points and Counters' component.

You can use this component to:

• Store activities to be performed, in the form of maintenance task lists

• Define the extent of preventive maintenance and inspection work and when it should be performed at pieces of equipment and functional locations

• Define the frequency of recurring maintenance and service tasks, either:

• Time-based or counter-based
• Time-based and counter-based

• Define the cost-based assignment of preventive maintenance and inspection activities from the start

• Make a cost preview of preventive maintenance and inspection work to be performed in the future