Preventive Maintenance Basics

Prioritize safety by conducting risk assessments and applying required precautions, implement lockout-tagout, inspect scaffolds, and prepare permits to prevent incidents and support near-miss reporting and root-cause investigations.

Plan and schedule preventive maintenance by ensuring spares, labor, and tools are available, and budget for parts, labor, and testing. Evaluate job quality through checks, commissioning, and reliability KPIs.

Define preventive maintenance as regular, routine upkeep that keeps equipment running and reduces unplanned downtime. Plan and schedule maintenance before problems arise, and maintain accurate inspection records.

Remember the fundamentals of preventive maintenance basics to support reliable operation and proactive maintenance planning.

Explore the basics of preventive maintenance and its three components, and learn how planning and scheduling extend asset lifetime and boost performance toward production targets.

Explore the disadvantages of applying a preventive maintenance program, including budget pressures from time-based replacements and the benefit of condition-based checks like oil analysis to save costs.

Explore the main classifications of preventive maintenance, its types and examples, and note how classifications and responsibilities vary across industries and organizational structures.

Identify time-based maintenance practices by examining examples like cleaning corrosion, checking bearing grease, changing lubrication oils, replacing filter components, and inspecting pressure and temperature gauges.

Explore predictive maintenance, a sensor-based method that monitors asset conditions, detects abnormalities, and triggers alarms or trips to save time, money, and effort, while noting upfront costs and training needs.

Explore prescriptive maintenance, an advanced asset maintenance strategy that uses machine learning, AI, and IoT with condition monitoring to predict failures and yield specific maintenance recommendations in real time.

Top management sponsorship drives the PPM culture and ensures other management levels respect and rely on PPM results, with OpEx and sometimes CapEx budgets tied to preventive maintenance findings.

Track maintenance cost as a key performance indicator to optimize spendings, compare PM costs to equipment cost, and assess equipment criticality to decide if PM is worthwhile, considering safety risks.

Balance the worth of preventive maintenance tasks by comparing failure costs to task costs, prioritizing actions that prevent downtime, environmental catastrophe, or loss of life.

Align the critical success factors across human, financial, engineering, and management pillars to guide the success journey of the preventive maintenance program.

FMEA guides the preventive maintenance team to brainstorm failure modes and effects, break equipment into components, and design prevention, detection, or elimination strategies with maintenance schedules.