The case for Scheduled Maintenance has been made over and over, ad nauseum for the last 50 or 60 years since Air Conditioning became popular in the 40s. Many who are far more intelligent and learned have recited all the reasons why this is the way to do things. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel , I would like to recall some of the reasons that I have heard out in the field for NOT doing maintenance. I promise to try my best to defend these positions.

“We just don’t do maintenan...

Having spent many years around server rooms and telephone offices , the magnitude of the systems that support information technology doesn't surprise me.

What does occasionally give me a start is that all of these diverse processes have "a guy" attached to them who is the sole master of that process. The cooling equipment has "an AC guy" . The power equipment usually has two "guys" , the electrician and sometimes the vendor who sold it to you. The fire system has a "guy" and so on. I don't k...