Maintenance Essentials: Preventive, Predictive & Corrective Maintenance

About Course

This microlearning course introduces the fundamentals of maintenance strategies used to keep equipment reliable, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance. Learners will explore what each strategy involves and how facilities generally balance them based on equipment criticality. Designed for beginners, the course takes approximately 10-13 minutes to complete.

Define preventive maintenance and explain how it is generally scheduled
Define predictive maintenance and explain how it generally differs from preventive maintenance
Define corrective maintenance and distinguish between planned and reactive corrective maintenance
Explain the general trade-offs between the three maintenance strategies
Identify factors that influence which maintenance strategy is applied to a given piece of equipment
Recognize why most facilities use a combination of maintenance strategies