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1st Sem Hotel Engg. Notes

Preventive and Breakdown Maintenance, Comparisons

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Last updated: 3 July 2023

If you work in the hospitality industry, you know how important it is to keep everything running smoothly. And to do that, you need to have a good maintenance plan in place. Two popular maintenance strategies are preventive and breakdown maintenance. In this blog, we’ll compare these two strategies and help you decide which one is right for your hotel.

What is Preventive Maintenance?

Preventive maintenance is a maintenance strategy that involves regularly scheduled maintenance checks to prevent equipment failure. This maintenance is performed while the equipment is still working to help avoid unexpected breakdowns. This type of maintenance is essential for keeping equipment in good working condition and reducing downtime.

What is Breakdown Maintenance?

Breakdown maintenance is a maintenance strategy that involves repairing equipment when it breaks down. This maintenance is performed after the equipment has already failed, and it is often reactive. This type of maintenance is typically more expensive and can result in longer periods of downtime.

Comparing Preventive and Breakdown Maintenance

The main difference between preventive and breakdown maintenance is the timing of the maintenance. Preventive maintenance is performed before equipment failure, while breakdown maintenance is performed after equipment failure. Here are some other key differences between these two maintenance strategies:

Cost

Preventive maintenance is often less expensive than breakdown maintenance because it allows you to catch potential problems early and address them before they become major issues. With breakdown maintenance, you’re often dealing with more significant problems that can require more expensive repairs and longer periods of downtime.

Downtime

Preventive maintenance helps reduce downtime by catching potential problems early and addressing them before they cause equipment failure. With breakdown maintenance, you’re dealing with unexpected downtime, which can result in longer periods of equipment inactivity and lost revenue.

Equipment Lifespan

Preventive maintenance can help extend the lifespan of your equipment because you’re catching potential problems early and addressing them before they become major issues. With breakdown maintenance, you’re often dealing with more significant problems that can cause equipment to wear out faster.

Safety

Preventive maintenance can help improve safety because you’re catching potential safety issues early and addressing them before they become hazards. With breakdown maintenance, you’re dealing with equipment failures that can potentially cause safety hazards.

Which Maintenance Strategy is Right for You?

The maintenance strategy that is right for you depends on a few factors. If you’re looking to reduce downtime, extend the lifespan of your equipment, and improve safety, then preventive maintenance is the way to go. If you’re willing to deal with unexpected downtime and have a larger budget for repairs, then breakdown maintenance may work for you. Ultimately, the decision is up to you.

Conclusion

Preventive and breakdown maintenance are two popular maintenance strategies in the hospitality industry. Preventive maintenance is performed before equipment failure to prevent unexpected downtime, while breakdown maintenance is performed after equipment failure. While preventive maintenance can be less expensive and help extend the lifespan of your equipment, breakdown maintenance can be useful for those who have a larger budget for repairs. By understanding the differences between these two maintenance strategies, you can make an informed decision on which one is right for your hotel.

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Syllabus BHM106

01 Maintenance

  1. Introduction
  2. Preventive and breakdown maintenance, comparisons
  3. Role & Importance of maintenance department in the hotel industry with emphasis on its relation with other departments of the hotel.
  4. Organization chart of maintenance department, duties and responsibilities of maintenance department

02 Fuels used in the catering industry

  1. Introduction
  2. Types of fuel used in catering industry; calorific value; comparative study of different fuels
  3. Calculation of amount of fuel required and cost.

03 Gas

  1. Introduction
  2. Heat terms and units; method of transfer
  3. LPG and its properties; principles of Bunsen burner, precautions to be taken while handling gas; low and high-pressure burners and their corresponding heat output
  4. Gas bank, location, different types of manifolds

04 Electricity

  1. Introduction
  2. Fundamentals of electricity, insulators, conductors, current, potential difference resistance, power, energy concepts; definitions, their units and relationships, AC and DC; single phase and three phases and its importance on equipment specifications
  3. Electric circuits, open circuits and close circuits, symbols of circuit elements, series and parallel connections, short circuits, fuses; MCB, earthing, the reason for placing switches on the live wire side.
  4. Electric wires and types of wiring
  5. Calculation of electric energy consumption of equipment, and safety precautions to be observed while using electric appliances.
  6. Types of lighting, different lighting devices, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, other gas-discharged lamps, illumination, and units of illumination.
  7. External lighting
  8. Safety in handling electrical equipment

05 Water systems

  1. Introduction
  2. Water distribution system in a hotel
  3. Cold water systems in India
  4. Hardness of water, water softening, base exchange method
  5. Cold water cistern swimming pools
  6. Hot water supply system in hotels
  7. Flushing system, water taps, traps and closets.

06 Refrigeration & Air-conditioning

  1. Basic principles, latent heat, boiling point and its dependence on pressure, vapour compressor system of refrigeration and refrigerants.
  2. Vapour absorption system, care and maintenance of refrigerators, defrosting, types of refrigerant units, their care and maintenance.
  3. Conditions for comfort, relative humidity, humidification, dehumidifying, due point control, unit of air conditioning
  4. Window type air conditioner, central air conditioning, preventive maintenance
  5. Vertical transportation, elevators, escalators

07 Fire prevention and fire fighting system

  1. Classes of fire, methods of extinguishing fires (Demonstration)
  2.  Fire extinguishers, portable and stationery
  3.  Fire detectors and alarm
  4. Automatic fire detectors cum extinguishing devices
  5. Structural protection
  6. Legal requirements

08 Waste disposal and pollution control

  1. Solid and liquid waste, sullage and sewage, disposal of solid waste
  2.  Sewage treatment
  3. Pollution related to the hotel industry
  4. Water pollution, sewage pollution
  5. Air pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution
  6. Legal Requirements

09 Safety

  1. Accident prevention
  2. Slips and falls
  3. Other safety topics

10 Security

11 Equipment replacement policy

  1. Introduction
  2. Circumstances under which equipment are replaced.
  3. Replacement policy of items which gradually deteriorates
  4. Replacement when the average annual cost is minimum
  5. Replacement when the present cost is minimum
  6. The economic replacement cycle for suddenly failing equipment

12 Audio-visual equipment

  1. Various audio-visual equipment used in hotel
  2. Care and cleaning of an overhead projector, slide projector, LCD and PowerPoint presentation units
  3. Maintenance of computers
  4. Care and cleaning of PC, CPU, Modem, UPS, Printer, Laptops
  5. Sensors – Various sensors used in different locations of a hotel – type, uses and cost-effectiveness

13 Contract maintenance

  1. Introduction
  2. The necessity of contract maintenance, advantages and disadvantages of contract maintenance
  3. Essential requirements of a contract, types of contract, their comparative advantages and disadvantages.
  4. Procedure for inviting and processing tenders, negotiating and finalizing