Preventive maintenance is an essential part of any successful facility management strategy. It involves regularly scheduled inspections and tasks, such as lubrication, chain or belt adjustments, and more, to help prevent unexpected failures in the future. Put simply, it's about fixing things before they break. When done correctly, preventive maintenance can increase the life of assets, reduce downtime, and more.
Creating a checklist or set of instructions for preventive maintenance for each asset is an excellent way to make sure that your maintenance team is executing every step of the preventive maintenance process correctly. Preventive maintenance software allows teams to create a sequence of procedures for each preventive maintenance task. This software also provides access to real-time data information, which allows companies to identify the performance of different machines and helps them determine when to perform maintenance to ensure uninterrupted performance. A well-planned preventive maintenance program should take a proactive approach, in which 60% or more of all maintenance activities are preventive. This type of preventive maintenance is especially relevant to the manufacturing industry, food production plants, and the electrical and energy industry, where information collected from predictive maintenance will allow maintenance managers to predict when system downtime may occur based on previous patterns and to schedule maintenance tasks to reduce accidents on critical operating equipment. Preventive maintenance and preventive maintenance software enable this by providing planning, scheduling, coordination, and reliability.
Scheduling preventive maintenance services at specific times for assets is an excellent way to use preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance software, including a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), can further simplify preventive maintenance through features such as the automatic scheduling of work orders. Preventive maintenance software will also allow technicians to easily access all the preventive maintenance work orders they have to carry out and will send alerts and reminders about the expected date for the next inspection. Preventive maintenance is essential for any company that wants to reduce maintenance costs and the number of reactive maintenance problems. It requires no additional tools other than the manufacturer's recommendations and a team willing to adopt new maintenance processes.
By taking a proactive approach with preventive maintenance, companies can ensure that their assets are running smoothly and efficiently.
