Category Archives: Preventive Maintenance

Generally preventive maintenance covers the schedule of planned maintenance activities that helps the prevention of equipment breakdowns and failures.

The primary goal of preventive maintenance is to prevent the failure of equipment before it actually occurs.

A good preventive maintenance program helps to preserve and enhance equipment reliability by replacing worn components before they actually fail.

Below are few reasons for the need of a preventive maintenance system:

• Increased Automation
• Losses due to production interruptions / delays
• Production of a regular, reliable higher quality product
• Just-in-time manufacturing / delivering services
• Stores management / Increased costs of spares
• Need for a more organized, planned environment

Advantages of doing preventive maintenance include:

1. Reduced production downtime, resulting in fewer machine breakdowns.
2. Better conservation of assets and increased life expectancy of assets, thereby eliminating premature replacement of machinery and equipment.
3. Timely, routine repairs circumvent fewer large-scale repairs.
4. Reduced downtime and hence reduced costs
5. Stores management at its best
6. Reduced cost of repairs by reducing secondary failures. When parts fail in service, they usually damage other parts.
7. Better quality products
8. Identification of equipment with excessive maintenance costs
9. Improved safety and quality conditions
10. Consumer satisfaction because of reduced failures / breakdowns.