Technically, repairs can also be considered maintenance work (corrective maintenance). However, the difference between repair and maintenance work is that repairs aim to restore functionality while maintenance looks to preserve functionality.

Repairs are restoration work for when an asset breaks, gets damaged, or stops working. Maintenance refers to routine activities and/or corrective or preventive repair done on assets to prevent damage and prolong the life expectancy.

Essentially, maintenance is what you get regularly done on your vehicle to make sure it stays in fighting form. Maintenance is something that's scheduled – like an oil change – whereas service is when you need something specific fixed or tuned up that's outside of your regular maintenance schedule.

There are different types of repair. One type is replacing repair, where an emerging word is truncated and a different word is used in its place . Another type is recycling repair with modification, where some parts of the repaired segment are repeated but other parts are replaced or modified .