Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance (or preventative maintenance) is maintenance that is regularly performed on a piece of equipment to lessen the likelihood of it failing. It is performed while the equipment is still working so that it does not break down unexpectedly.

If through proper inspections Galibright® can catch and fix problems before failure, reliability should improve.

Types of preventive maintenance

1. Time-based preventive maintenance

A typical example of a time-based preventive maintenance trigger is a regular inspection on a critical piece of equipment that would severely impact production in the event of a breakdown.

2. Usage-based preventive maintenance

Usage-based triggers fire after a certain amount of kilometers, hours, or production cycles. An example of this trigger is a motor-vehicle which might be scheduled for service every 1,000 km.

When is it suitable to use ?

Assets suitable for preventive maintenance include those that:

Have a critical operational function

Have failure modes that can be prevented (and not increased) with regular maintenance

Have a likelihood of failure that increases with time or use

PMs. Maintenance software allows you to set PMs according to the triggers that are appropriate for each piece of equipment. Once the trigger occurs, a work order will be created.

Maintenance software also allows organizations to gather data surrounding PM activities to report on or optimize those activities, and set maintenance KPIs to work towards