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.

Definition Benefits and Types of Maintenance

Maintenance is activity or work that is carried out and necessary to preserve an asset including building and equipment’s. Maintenance work enables continued use and function, above a minimum acceptable level of performance, over its design service life, without unforeseen renewal or major repair activities Maintenance management serves to protect the owners’ real estate investment… Read More »

Total Productive & Preventive Maintenance

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program which involves a newly defined concept for maintaining plants and equipment’s. TPM or total productive maintenance is a holistic approach to equipment maintenance that strives to achieve perfect operation and optimum production. Benefits of TPM include: No Small Stops or Slow Running Increase in overall equipment effectiveness.… Read More »

What is Maintenance Management?

Maintenance management is now mandatory part of any facility management system. In fact maintenance management is not to repair broken equipment instead it is an approach to keep the equipment running at high capacity and produce quality output or efficiency at lowest cost possible. Long back the manufacturing and production work was done with relatively… Read More »

Sample Operation & Maintenance Manual for Fire Alarm System

TABLE OF CONTENT Section Description 1. How to use the manual 2. General Description of Scope 3. Detailed Description of Scope 4. Asset Register 5. Operation & Maintenance instructions 6. Safety Procedures 7. Care of apparatus subject to seasonal use 8. Maintenance schedule 9. Maintenance check lists 10. Recommended spare parts 11. Test certificates 12.… Read More »

Equipment Preservation Cleaning Protection Lubrication and Inspection Method

The scope of this method of statement covers all works associated with the protection, cleaning, lubricating, inspecting and reserving of equipment’s and materials, in suitable storage conditions according to Vendor’s and/ or Licenser`s recommendation. The duration of application is from the job site receipt date until materials and equipment are installed and commissioned, and the… Read More »

Preventive Maintenance Program Best Practices

Implementation of preventive maintenance program is helpful in reducing the corrective maintenance because corrective maintenance work costs typically 8 times more than preventive maintenance work. It is always easier and cheaper to maintain than to replace. we can reduce 25% of maintenance calls while implementing the proper PM program. Similarly corrective work orders cost 2… Read More »

AC Refrigerant Compressor Replacement Procedure

The purpose of this method statement is to establish a standard ac maintenance procedure for refrigerant compressor replacement in air conditioning units and any other refrigeration system. This method will also serve as a guideline for training new employees dealing with Air conditioning unit Maintenance activity. Scope of this standard procedure covers all equipment’s which… Read More »

Copper Pipe Cutting Procedure using Tube Cutter and Hacksaw

Purpose This method will help to establish a standard procedure for the proper copper pipe cutting and using the right tools for the maintenance job. The procedure will also serve as guideline for newly hired employee which will be dealing with Air conditioning unit maintenance activities. Scope The scope of this standard maintenance procedure covers… Read More »

8 Steps for Successful Implementation of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

This article about the successful maintenance planning and scheduling will help understand the proactive maintenance planning and scheduling approach. Document will also help in providing a training program for maintenance teams that is educational, exciting, and informative. The guidelines shall ensure the provision of a training environment that is conducive for training the maintenance workers.… Read More »

Download HVAC Maintenance Procedures & Schedules – Editable Formats

Now you can download complete package for HVAC maintenance works. We are providing editable method statements and procedures that can help you for conducting the planned maintenance of all hvac mechanical equipment’s and systems. Preventive maintenance is an essential part of any facility management works. If you are ac maintenance contractor and looking for help… Read More »