What is Preventive Maintenance?
Computers cost a lot of money. Although they continually drop in price, the average computer you work on will probably range between P25,000 and 35,000. If all that equipment was yours, you’d want to make sure it was working properly as much of the time as you can, right? That’s 100% of what preventive maintenance is about. You want to keep the computers you work on running properly, as every time they fail there is an economic cost involved. When Should You Do What??? The biggest problem with preventive maintenance is that no one knows how often it should be performed. Here is a standard list of hardware actions that you should use when asked, although you should make your own list depending on the priorities assigned in your job description.