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Performance of the adjustments necessary to return an item to specified operation. The actions to ensure a process or activity supports the organization’s strategy, goals, and objectives.

Corrective maintenance
All actions performed as a result of failure to restore an item to a specified condition. These can include any or all of the following steps: localization, isolation, disassembly, interchange, reassembly, alignment, and checkout. Corrective maintenance provides a process to identify and implement the set of tasks to restore an item to service after a failure.

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About Fred Schenkelberg

I am the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm I founded in 2004. I left Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Reliability Team, where I helped create a culture of reliability across the corporation, to assist other organizations.

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