Even knowing the advantages of Preventive Maintenance, many managers still dedicate most of their time and resources to corrective maintenance, seeing preventive maintenance as an unnecessary additional cost.

In fact, preventative maintenance when well planned can greatly decrease overall maintenance costs and even extend the life of gym equipment, decreasing future complaints from users.

Through preventive maintenance, technicians can reduce equipment degradation, extending its life span and avoiding corrective interventions, which generate high costs and have negative impacts on fitness room users.

Preventive vs Corrective Maintenance

We know that corrective maintenance is normally carried out after the occurrence of a breakdown or productive inability of the equipment. A significant percentage of these breakdowns can be avoided if the maintenance manager takes into consideration the preventive maintenance of such equipment.

Corrective maintenance, which is still necessary, has a greater financial impact, since it can lead to the definitive destruction of equipment.

The main advantage of having a preventive maintenance plan is to be able to prevent these situations by replacing worn components in advance, preserving and restoring all necessary parts.

The Advantages are:

• Improve the technical and operational status of the equipment;
• Reduce equipment degradation;
• Reduce the risk of equipment breakdowns;
• Schedule preventive work;
• Carry out the repairs in favourable operating conditions;
• Reduce costs;
• Extend the life of the equipment;
• Reduce the impact on equipment depreciation
• Valuation of equipment for possible future exchange.

Conclusion

A preventive maintenance plan is ideal, it can avoid any equipment breakdown or can predict and schedule so that this breakdown has the least possible impact on the user.