What is Telecommunications Preventive and Corrective Maintenance?

 

What is Telecommunications Preventive and Corrective Maintenance?

At this point it is very important to focus on what is an integral preventive maintenance service. We will define it as the following: “A group of calculated tasks and strategies designed and implemented by a specialized company to offer this type of service to Mobile Phone companies that have, as a result, a low impact in problems caused by damage, wear out or rupture of backup components of a Telecom site and where the cause is mainly the deficit in quality and quantity of the maintenance.

One of the main objectives of Preventive Maintenance is the reduction of Corrective Maintenances.

Advantages of Preventive Maintenance

• Significantly reduces the cost incurred by repairs and/or component replacements.
• Minimizes the Site’s time off air. It is more economic and efficient than corrective maintenance.
• Optimizes performance and longevity of the different components of a Telecommunication Site.
• With this type of maintenance, the number of satisfied clients in a Telecommunication company is always greater.

What is an Integral Preventive Maintenance?

We could define it as the maintenance that best suits a telecommunication company and which is also performed by just one company, therefore optimizing cost in tasks and routines that ought to be done at a Telecommunication Site. This company is responsible for:

• Maintenance of Generator/Power Plant and its corresponding Automatic Transfer Control Panel.  It should also provide the following:
• Transportation and qualified labor to fulfill the tasks.
  2- Provide all parts such as: filters, lubricants, refrigerants, fuses, terminals, etc.
• Provide and charge necessary fuel for optimum functioning of the power plant during power cuts from the commercial net.
• Maintenance of the AA system. The company should provide not only the labor but also the following:
       1- All the necessary cooling gas to keep the air conditioning equipment functioning correctly.
       2- All consumables such as, filters, thermostats, terminals and others.
• Maintenance of the Primary Power System (Commercial Net).The company providing the service should make sure that the Commercial Net is free and clear of obstacles and should also provide fuses of medium and low tension (as required).
• Infrastructure maintenance and site cleaning.
• Maintenance of Protection Systems and proper grounding.
• Maintenance of Beacon System.

The Importance of a good decision.

It is fundamental and almost critical to consider the qualifications of the company to be hired for Preventive and Corrective Maintenance. A correct decision will be based on the service being an investment not a cost. Sometimes the tendency is to consider that all companies providing services are the same, but that is not true.