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Improving Equipment Reliability with Preventive Maintenance
Rating: 3.2 out of 5(2 ratings)
7 students
Created byTim Chui
Last updated 12/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How preventive maintenance improves equipment reliability and uptime
  • The difference between reactive, fixed-time, condition-based, and predictive maintenance
  • Learn how to prioritize maintenance using asset criticality and risk
  • Learn key reliability metrics such as MTBF, PM Compliance, PM Percentage, OEE, and availability
  • Learn how to optimize PM tasks and avoid over- or under-maintenance
  • Learn how to implement preventive maintenance using a CMMS
  • Learn how to use maintenance data for continuous reliability improvement

Course content

11 sections11 lectures3h 37m total length
  • Course Outline and Structure8:17

Requirements

  • No prerequisite

Description

Equipment reliability is essential for safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations in industrial plants, commercial buildings, and facilities management environments. This course provides a practical, step-by-step approach to preventive maintenance that helps you improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and lower maintenance costs.

Many organizations struggle with reactive maintenance, frequent breakdowns, and poor maintenance planning. In this course, you will learn how to transition to a proactive maintenance strategy using proven preventive maintenance best practices. You will understand how proper maintenance planning improves asset availability, extends equipment life, and increases overall plant productivity.

Key topics include maintenance strategies, preventive vs predictive maintenance, asset criticality analysis, maintenance planning and scheduling, work order management, condition-based maintenance, and maintenance documentation. The course also explains how to use a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to schedule preventive maintenance tasks, track work orders, analyze equipment history, and support data-driven maintenance decisions.

Real-world examples from pumps, HVAC systems, motors, and facility equipment help you apply these concepts immediately. This course is ideal for maintenance engineers, technicians, facility managers, reliability engineers, plant supervisors, and non-maintenance managers who need a clear and practical understanding of maintenance management and equipment reliability improvement.

Whether you work in manufacturing, building facilities, or plant engineering, this course gives you the tools and knowledge to build a reliable, sustainable preventive maintenance program.

Who this course is for:

  • Plant Managers and Engineers, Maintenance Managers and Engineers, Maintenance Planners , Officers , Technicians and Engineering Staffs who are involved in planning, maintaining, servicing of plant and production equipment