Clear answers to common questions about PCB repair, diagnostics, failure analysis, and refurbishment.
Preventive Maintenance
Refurbishment makes sense when equipment is still functional but degraded, and replacing it would cost more or take longer than restoring it.
Refurbishment done as a planned program, rather than a one-off reaction to a failure, brings benefits beyond just fixing what's currently broken.
Most electronic equipment fails for reasons that can be managed: heat, poor power and ageing parts. Extending its life is mainly a matter of controlling those and acting before a failure.
Repair responds to a failure; refurbishment reduces the number of failures. Planned work on ageing equipment turns unplanned outages into scheduled ones.
