Preventive Maintenance预防性维护
Preventive maintenance is scheduled maintenance performed at fixed intervals or usage thresholds to reduce the likelihood of equipment failure and unplanned downtime, rather than waiting for a breakdown to occur. Maintenance plans, work orders, CMMS records, and total productive maintenance programs specify it as tasks such as lubrication, inspection, calibration, and component replacement, along with frequencies and assigned roles for each asset.
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Check source meaning → confirm the preferred term → record approved variants and references.
Where this term appears
In localization, preventive maintenance appears in CMMS user interfaces, maintenance manuals, training materials, and audit reports. Translators may see phrases like 'preventive maintenance plan,' 'preventive maintenance schedule,' and 'preventive maintenance checklist.' The term must be kept distinct from predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance, because each category triggers different workflows and data fields in maintenance software.
Translation checks
A frequent error is translating preventive maintenance as 'preventive repair' or using a term that implies immediate fixing rather than scheduled upkeep. Another mistake is merging it with predictive maintenance, which is condition-based rather than calendar-based. Such blurring can mislead maintenance teams about tasks, intervals, and performance metrics, and can affect CMMS data localizations.
From reading to a project
Keep each maintenance interval attached to its task
Illustrative maintenance schedule · invented asset
- Asset reference
- DEMO-ASSET-12 · equipment record E-04
- Scheduled trigger
- Every 500 operating hours
- Task and role
- Inspect belt tension · maintenance technician
- Chinese task label
- 检查皮带张紧度
Review status: questions to confirm
Match the task to the asset
Carry the supplied asset ID, equipment model and source revision into the same row so the instruction stays connected to the right equipment.
Preserve the trigger and units
Keep the stated calendar interval or usage threshold with its unit. Do not convert a value or infer a due date when the source does not specify one.
Keep maintenance categories distinct
Check whether the source describes scheduled preventive work, monitoring used to anticipate failure or corrective repair. Preserve that distinction in headings and system fields.
Related published experience
XCMG Import & ExportPortuguese → Chinese
Portuguese-to-Chinese translation of construction-machinery technical documents, operating manuals and service guides.
Related Portuguese-to-Chinese construction-machinery technical documents, operating manuals and service guides; the public case does not establish preventive-maintenance plans or schedules.
Send one representative task row, the matching equipment reference, actual language direction and requested deliverables in Chinese.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check equipment names, units, safety instructions and interface labels against the source and approved references. Confirm any market-specific document requirements separately.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
Working on smart manufacturing documentation?
Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
Prepare a Chinese maintenance-file inquiry →Smart Manufacturing solutions →File handling →A glossary entry is not an official standard or evidence of regulatory acceptance. Confirm current requirements for your project separately.