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Preventative maintenance

Servicing equipment on a schedule to prevent breakdowns, rather than fixing after failure.

Preventative (or planned) maintenance services assets at set intervals to stop failures before they happen — think scheduled fire inspections or HVAC servicing. It’s the basis of recurring service contracts and steady, predictable revenue.

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