The Preventive Maintenance Calendar for Cash Machines: Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reactive crews replace parts; preventive crews replace routines. This calendar is deliberately short — schedules that demand less get followed.

Weekly

• Air-blast note-path optics and clear reject trays (the coin-path routine and validator triage share this task).
• Run one test transaction end-to-end (deposit, payout, print) and keep the receipt — it is the witness record.
• Confirm door seals and shutter action.

Monthly

• Clean card reader head and contacts with approved cards — cadence detail in the reader-longevity guide.
• Wipe printer platen; check head print quality under magnification (see printer-path care).
• Verify UPS runtime on a brief drain and log the result.

Quarterly

• Fan-blade and intake-filter service.
• Retorque accessible power connectors — thermal cycling loosens them invisibly.
• Review error logs against the environment min/max record for the quarter.

Annual

Replace predictable wear as a batch — belts, heads, shutters — rather than chasing individual failures through the year. Batch replacement buys a year of fewer emergency windows at parts-plus-one prices.

Batch replacement buys a year of fewer emergency windows at parts-plus-one prices — the shelf list that pairs with this calendar is built by the receiving-inspection routine, and the environment checks it depends on live in the cabinet environment guide. All rotation topics sit together in the RMG Knowledge Base.