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Inflight maintenance checklist procedure before starting waste collection system repair on board the Atlantis shuttle. Corrective maintenance is a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate, and rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, or system can be restored to an operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations.
Corrective and preventive action (CAPA or simply corrective action) consists of improvements to an organization's processes taken to eliminate causes of non-conformities or other undesirable situations.
In the early 1970s, companies began to separate out software maintenance with its own team of engineers to free up software development teams from support tasks. [1] In 1972, R. G. Canning published "The Maintenance 'Iceberg '", in which he contended that software maintenance was an extension of software development with an additional input: the existing system. [1]