The break-down maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment brings a great waste of maintenance cost and man-hour. Unscientific "timing" preventive maintenance not only cannot solve the problem effectively,but may bring new maintenance to the product. Determining a reasonable preventive maintenance cycle can effectively reduce the cost of maintenance resources. In this paper,according to the characteristics of mechanical and electrical equipment,and based on the widely-used Weibull life distribution and Bayesian conditional probability analysis,the influencing factors of preventive maintenance are comprehensively studied,the suitable objects for preventive maintenance are identified,and the preventive maintenance cycle method and preventive detection maintenance cycle model are determined. The research shows that the 2 preventive maintenance cycle models respectively based on failure rate and reliability determined by life statistical characteristic data can effectively guide the implementation of preventive maintenance,reduce the cost of maintenance resources,and provide scientific methods for preventive maintenance. The preventive maintenance cycle method determined in this paper can help engineers to carry out preventive maintenance.