This document discusses maintenance and methods for tracking losses and overcoming losses through proper maintenance activities. It defines maintenance as actions to retain or restore equipment to its maximum useful life. The three main types of maintenance are preventive, breakdown, and corrective. Preventive maintenance includes periodic and predictive maintenance. Periodic maintenance involves spare part replacement on a predefined schedule, while predictive maintenance uses equipment like bearing meters to determine condition-based maintenance. Breakdown maintenance repairs equipment after failure. Corrective maintenance aims to improve reliability through kaizen activities to reduce downtime and increase time between failures. Key metrics like mean time to repair, mean time between failures, and uptime are also explained.