MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS

Any company uses a maintenance service in order to prevent risks and failures and if necessary, repair failures.

This agreement governs the professional relations between us and our client, and thus offers a guarantee in the event of a disagrement.

A maintenance contract will either be suggested to PERITEST if our customer is in the habit of submitting its maintenance contract to his service provider,

or a maintenance contract will be suggested by PERITEST, if the customer prefers. This will target it then, after having made some modifications which may be necessary, according to the tasks required.

However, there are 2 types of maintenance that must be specified in the contract : Preventive & Curative maintenance, the 1st aimed at diagnosing potential mechanical/electrical or IT damage, the 2nd serving as troubleshooting and repair.

  • Preventive maintenance aims to put in place rigorous monitoring and control means capable of detecting a malfunction, which may be expensive to begin with, but quickly pays for itself.
  • Curative maintenance can be costly since it can involve renewing the production tool or bringing it into conformity. The maintenance indicator serves precisely as an evaluation measure for our technicians.

Before choosing a type of contract or another, it will be necessary to bear in mind several criterias, including the area of intervention. Then, it will be necessary to carry out a 1st diagnosis of the operating state of industrial equipment, machines, of the production line, if there is one or the software. For all this, the customer must know the initial “state” of the equipment concerned, its future conditions of use, and any available maintenance indicators, etc…

Finally, the client will have to define a well-established maintenance policy, based on risks and costs analysis. Deciding for maintenance operations sometimes requires a temporary shutdown of the production line.