At Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for Technically
Complex Facilities Conference 2005, a strategy was proposed for
dealing with deferred maintenance:
To attack the deferred maintenance problem, implement a system to
avoid the 1/3 of maintenance spending that is being spent
unnecessarily, and check to make sure that at least 80 percent of your
maintenance time and money is going toward planned (as opposed to
unplanned) maintenance.
Deferred maintenance is the practice of allowing machinery or
infrastructure to deteriorate by postponing prudent but non-essential
repairs to save cost, labor and/or material. The failure to perform
needed repair, maintenance, and renewal by normal maintenance
management creates deferred maintenance. Generally, a policy of
continuing deferred maintenance will results in higher costs or failure
than if normal maintenance had occurred.
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