Adapting to a Predictive Maintenance Strategy
Predictive Maintenance focuses primarily on predicting the likelihood of the occurrence of a failure and preventing the failure by performing timely maintenance.
Benefits:
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Reduces unexpected downtimes and improves the availability of the equipment
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Reduces the maintenance costs and improves the maintainability of the equipment
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Improves the overall performance and production outcomes of the installation/plant
Key Factors:
- Human Resources:
Adapting Predictive Maintenance doesn’t add or remove jobs. It enhances the performance of the existing maintenance personnel.
- Skills & Capabilities:
Most of the time, the skills and capabilities required to apply Predictive Maintenance strategy are already available in the organisation.
- Criticality – the scope of work:
Monitor the critical equipment which when fails, affect the installation/plant the most and in the worst case, stop the operations.
- Approach of implementation:
Adapt the Predictive Maintenance strategy to move from corrective or reactive based maintenance to proactive maintenance.