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Preventive Maintenance Program

Catch the failure before it becomes an outage
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Roughly half of all data center outages trace back to two preventable causes.

UPS battery failure and human error together cause roughly half of all data center outages, and both are preventable with the right maintenance discipline. MDI builds a preventive maintenance program tailored to your facility, covering every major system from generators and UPS units to cooling, fire protection, and raised floor, with a clear asset inventory, priority levels, and a multi-year maintenance calendar.

What You Can Expect

A maintenance program built around your facility's own systems, not a generic checklist.

Complete Asset Inventory
Across electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems.
Priority Levels per Asset
Recommended maintenance actions and priority ranked for every asset.
Multi-Year Calendar
A maintenance calendar updated annually.
Full-System Coverage
UPS, batteries, generators, switchgear, PDUs, CRAC units, and chillers.
End-of-Life Planning
Aging equipment replaced on a plan, not after it fails.
Re-Commissioning
For facilities that have grown, changed, or seen staff turnover.
Emergency Readiness
Procedures tested so personnel are ready when something goes wrong.
Documented History
A maintenance record instead of relying on institutional memory.
Why Preventive Maintenance Matters
The outages that make the news were usually preventable months before they happened.

How You Win

Fewer Unplanned Outages
The leading causes of failure are exactly what this program targets.
A Documented History
Instead of relying on institutional memory.
Budget Predictability
Equipment replacement planned, not a surprise.
One Integrated System
Equipment maintained together, not as disconnected parts.
Emergency Readiness
Confidence personnel and procedures are ready for an emergency.
Lower Insurance Risk
A documented maintenance program is easier to defend to insurers and auditors.

Our Approach

01
Inventory Every Asset
Catalog electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems across the facility.
02
Set Priorities
Assign recommended maintenance actions and a priority level to each asset.
03
Build the Calendar
Create a multi-year maintenance calendar, updated annually.
04
Plan End-of-Life
Set replacement policies so aging equipment is replaced on schedule, not after failure.
05
Re-Commission as Needed
Verify systems again after growth, change, or staff turnover.

Proven Success

Colohub Midwest data center
Colohub Midwest
A maintenance program covering every major system across a 57,000 square foot greenfield facility.
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HFT Data Center program fiber infrastructure
HFT Data Center Program
A consistent maintenance standard carried across eight markets for one client's facility program.
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Where This Fits

Preventive Maintenance Program is one of ten services MDI offers across the full project lifecycle. Clients can engage at any point, whether that means this one service or several together.

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Data Center Feasibility Study Services
Site Selection Services
Technical Due Diligence
Owner's Representative Services
Equipment Procurement
Colocation RFP & Provider Selection
Commissioning Services
Facility Condition Assessment Services
BIM & Facilities Management Services
Part of Our Integrated Services Offering
Preventive Maintenance is what keeps every other service's work from degrading over time.
It is the long-term discipline behind commissioning, equipment procurement, and facility condition findings.
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Related Solutions

This service is part of
Data Center Modernization
Assessing, recommissioning, and maintaining an aging facility. Preventive Maintenance Program is one of three services this solution draws on.
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