Preventive upkeep of mechanical equipment

Abstract

Specific preventive servicing operations. These include the care and periodic observation of the engine parts, transmission and other ancillary mechanisms. The specific items that should be independently serviced include separate functional units and mechanisms, belts, fuels, hydraulic brake liquid, lubricants, filters and secondary mechanisms. The functional state of each contributes to the efficiency of the whole machinery, so that they should be subjected to suitable checks and servicing. Items such as cables, brakes, lights, and those others upon which the safety, both of the machinery and of the staff using it, specially depend should be serviced and controlled with a care and frequency that might be even a little redundant. This will tend to avoid dangerous accidents and expensive delays.