Implementing a Preventive Maintenance Program (PMP)

I thought this was a great article on implementing a preventive maintenance program. A lot of small processors are tasked with implementing a preventive maintenance program in order to pass a third party audit.  They go out and buy some fancy software and then begin the arduous task of implementing it.  But they soon realize that it is overly burdensome and that their overall operations costs have increased because of higher costs of managing the program are not being offset by improvements in efficiency.  Instead of the PM program working for them, they are working for the PM program.

Sometimes a simpler approach is needed.  Figure out the most important assets and focus your efforts on them.  Don't over maintain, but understand what is going to improve overall performance of you operation taking all costs, including energy, into account.


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4 Things to Know Before Implementing a Predictive Maintenance Program
7/15/2014 9:02:00 AM
It is not a commonly drawn linkage, but the correlation between how we manage our assets and overall sustainability metrics could not be clearer.

However, it's one thing to want a predictive maintenance model, and quite another thing to actually implement it in a manufacturing environment. At times it can seem overwhelming. We have so much data to draw on, and between the rise of Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT), it can be overwhelming to consider how to achieve true predictive maintenance, above and beyond the preventive maintenance we widely practice.

With that, let's look at four key things we can do as we strive to implement a predictive maintenance approach across our organization, and at the same timein the spirit of our previous messageconsider how these ideas correlate to overall sustainability performance.