Chapter 2: Taxonomy of Industrial Conservation.

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Conservation is divided into two main branches: one is the preservation, which addresses the needs of physical resources and the other is maintenance, which takes care of the service provided by these resources.

PRESERVATION

Preservation is human action that will prevent damage to existing resources. There are two types of preservation: preventive and corrective; the difference is whether the work is done before (pre) or after (corrective) that damage occurred in the resource.

MAINTENANCE

Maintenance is the second branch of conservation and refers to the work required to do in order to provide quality service stipulated. Maintenance is human activity that guarantees the existence of a service within expected quality.

Maintenance is divided into two branches: corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance.

Corrective maintenance

It is human activity in the physical resources of a company, as a result of a failure have ceased to provide the expected quality of service.

Preventive Maintenance

Human activity in the physical resources of a company, in order to ensure that the quality of service they provide, continue within the established limits.

IMPORTANCE OF TAXONOMY

The correct application of this taxonomy allows us to streamline the technical and administrative activities, or applied to the conservation of physical resources, especially in the following points:

• An understanding of the concepts of industrial.

• It is possible to prioritize, with respect to service, the importance that the company has each of its resources and combining them into vital, important and trivial to provide adequate care, so that you can define, in each case, quality service within a band or range of expected results, rationally appropriate.

• Quality service to be provided to the user takes priority importance.

• Downtime is minimized.

• Rationalisation quality, type of personnel and maintenance and preservation must be developed in different company resources.

• The adequacy of the type and quality of personnel to meet the technical and administrative work of the conservation of resources is provided.

• The organization of conservation departments is done in a logical and functional manner.