Preventive Maintenance

This scope item describes the processes you perform to prevent system breakdowns or breakdowns of other objects that have high repair costs. Such breakdowns result in greater costs due to production downtime. Preventive maintenance support processes to plan the scope and time of maintenance work for inspections, maintenance, and repairs, in advance. The quality of products manufactured is substantially affected by the operational condition of the production plant. There is a requirement for quality assurance to be more cost effective to maintain objects regularly, and in return avoid a more expensive breakdown. You determine the data required for preventive maintenance by using previous data supplied by the system. In addition to internal company aspects for planned maintenance, you should consider external factors due to an increasing number of conditions set by legislative bodies demanding more stringent requirements on planned monitoring and maintenance of objects.

Key Process Steps Covered

Preventive Maintenance - Time Based

  • Maintain maintenance strategies
  • Create general task list
  • Create maintenance plan
  • Schedule maintenance plan
  • Release preventive maintenance order and printing to job list
  • Print job card
  • Confirm preventive maintenance order
  • Create follow-on order (optional)
  • Show costs on maintenance order
  • Technically complete preventive maintenance order
  • Review document flow of preventive maintenance order

Preventive Maintenance - Performance Based

  • Maintain maintenance strategies
  • Create general task list
  • Create maintenance plan
  • Create measurement document
  • Schedule maintenance plan
  • Release preventive maintenance order and printing to job list
  • Print job card
  • Confirm preventive maintenance order
  • Create follow-on order (optional)
  • Show costs on maintenance order
  • Complete preventive maintenance order technically
  • Review document flow of preventive maintenance order

Benefits

  • Plan better by changing from reactive to proactive maintenance
  • Ensure high availability of equipment and therefore better performance and utilization of assets
  • Reduce total maintenance costs by reducing breakdowns
  • Support external requirements, such as manufacturer recommendations, and legal and environmental requirements