Do you suffer from too much deferred preventive maintenance?

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If you are like most companies, you have a hard time finding the man-hours to do all the scheduled preventive and predictive maintenance. So you defer it, maybe permanently.

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Not only does excess preventive and predictive maintenance waste manpower and time, it can also cause you to have more breakdowns. A study by Corio & Costantini showed that in the period immediately after maintenance was performed, the likelihood of equipment failure was significantly increased.

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• Lack of effective preventive maintenance can cause:

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• Reduced machine reliability
• Reduced machine availability
• More frequent corrective maintenance
• High parts cost
• More overtime
• Lost production
• Lost sales
• Off quality product
• Operator frustration

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Optimize you PM program

A good planned maintenance system is designed with an optimal mix of preventive (PM) and predictive (PdM) maintenance tasks. The system schedules the tasks for maximum impact at minimum cost. And it increases the maintainability of the machines.

Effective preventive and predictive maintenance insures:

• Reducing the number of emergency repairs to a minimum by finding problems early.
• Minimizing the number of unplanned repairs.
• The least impact on production.
• You manage failure, not failure managing you.

Steve Turner of OMCS International documented average results of optimizing PM. He found nearly half of PMs could be improved or eliminated.

Some Examples of optimization:

• Finding machines with too little or too much PM
• Finding PMs that occur too often or not often enough
• Finding maintainability improvements
• Finding training improvements
• If you?d like to see more detail on some of these examples, please see our white paper;

5 Ways to optimize your PM System