Maintenance is any activity performed on an asset with a view to ensuring that it is able to deliver an expected level of service until it is scheduled to be renewed, replaced or disposed of.
Alternate Definitions
- "All actions necessary for retaining an asset as near as practical to its original condition, but excluding rehabilitation." - National Asset Management Manual
- "The routine activities to sustain standards of performance throughout the in-service, or operational, part of the asset life cycle." - Plant Maintenance Resource Centre
- "All actions which have the objective of retaining or restoring an item in or to a state in which it can perform its required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions." - European Federation of National Maintenance Societies
- "Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service." - Wiktionary
- "To take action to preserve." - Concise Oxford Dictionary
- "The replacement or repair of components and assemblies (before or after failure) so that the unit concerned can perform its designated function over its expected life." - CQU Maintenance Management Study Notes (ENMM 20011)
- "Regular ongoing day-to-day work necessary to keep assets operating, eg road patching". - Main Roads (Queensland).
- "The combination of all technical and associated administrative actions intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform its required function." - Total Management Planning - Glossary of Terms
Types of Maintenance
- Breakdown Maintenance
- Condition Based Maintenance
- Corrective Maintenance
- Cyclical Maintenance
- Emergency Maintenance
- Periodic Maintenance
- Planned Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance
- Preventive Maintenance
- Proactive Maintenance
- Programmed Maintenance
- Reactive Maintenance
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Routine Maintenance
- Scheduled Maintenance
- Service Maintenance
- Unplanned Maintenance
Asset Specific Maintenance
- Artworks Maintenance
- Bridge Maintenance
- Building Maintenance
- Drainage System Maintenance
- Footpath Maintenance
- Furniture and Equipment Maintenance
- Plant and Equipment Maintenance
- Park Maintenance
- Playground Maintenance
- Road Maintenance
Maintenance Activities
The following list of maintenance activities is generated automatically. To add an item to the list you will need to find or create a page about the activity and then add the tag "maintenance-activity" to that page.
- Condition Monitoring
- Crack Sealing
- Edge Patching
- Electric Motor Repairs
- Footpath Grinding
- Footpath Repairs
- Herbicide Spraying
- Lawn Coring
- Lawn Edging
- Line Marking
- Maintenance Grading
- Painting
- Park Mowing
- Pothole Patching
- Pressure Grouting
- Pump Overhauls
- Road Grading
- Road Patching
- Roadside Mowing
- Roadside Slashing
- Sealed Road Shoulder Maintenance
- Stormwater Pit Cleaning
- Sub-Component Replacement
- Top Dressing
Maintenance Expenditure
Maintenance expenditure is any expenditure on the maintenance of an asset.
Collaborators & Contributors
The following people have contributed to this page and/or have indicated (via the Local Government Collaboration Topics Survey) that they have an interest and/or expertise in the topic of 'asset maintenance' and are willing to collaborate with their peers at other councils and organisations to identify challenges and resources relating to the topic and to look for ways to work together to overcome any challenges that are identified.
- Ben Clark (City of Tea Tree Gully)
- Bill Scott (Central Goldfields Shire)
- Brent Heitbaum (Gannawarra Shire)
- Charles Taveira (City of Greater Dandenong)
- Chris Saunders (Glenelg Shire)
- Damien Hense (C.I.C.A)
- Darren Dumesny (Moyne Shire)
- David Goldie (City of Greater Geelong)
- David Gyford (West Wimmera Shire)
- Des Martin (Campaspe Shire)
- Indivar Dhakal (Loddon Shire)
- John van Nieuwkerk (Corangamite Shire)
- Johnathon Roach (Open Spatial) EL
- Kamal Ranaweera (City of Logan)
- Michael Constantinou (Banyule City Council) EL
- Mohammad Rashid (City of Banyule)
- Natalie Tubbs (Moira Shire) E
- Peter Godfrey (BAS Consulting)
- Quenten Graham (Swan Hill Rural City Council)
- Ross Guppy (Austroads)
- Royce Bastin (Southern Grampians Shire)
- Shannon Galea (Campaspe Shire)
- Thanh Nguyen (City of Monash)
- Will Repic (City of Maribyrnong)
- Wayne Eddy (City of Whittlesea)
Related Pages
- Activity Types
- Asset Maintenance Management System
- Expenditure
- Lifecycle Costing
- Maintenance Period
- Operation
- Renewal