Preventive Maintenance (PM) can be described as any work or maintenance activity carried out on equipment to avoid failure. Thus, the main objective of any preventive maintenance program is to either mitigate the consequences of the failure or detect the presence of an impending failure.

In today's industry, however, it is very common for PM programs to be based walk-downs, time-driven replacement of parts, or "inspect and replace if necessary". Running a PM program based on any of these philosophies can be quite costly, highly inefficient, and often create a level of mistrust and uncertainty on your operations.

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Building a Preventive Maintenance Program

Perhaps one of the most important factors when building a PM program is the realization that not all failures are created equal. Discover how reliability centered maintenance (RCM) set the stage to revolutionize the field of maintenance and reliability.

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Preventive Maintenance

RCM is a strategy by which each maintenance task is driven by a specific failure mode and is based on the impact of failure and type of failure mode. Learn why the ability to clearly define and understand failure modes, as a part of a RCM process, is crucial to developing an effective preventive maintenance strategy.

Evaluating your Preventive Maintenance Program

Often an organization has a mature reliability program, which makes it difficult to understand where to start incorporating RCM concepts. However, it's critical that every PM program regardless of type or age should regularly be evaluated to keep your system healthy. At the very least, every year you should be evaluating whether the tasks on your PM program are adding value, if there is a new PdM technology (or existing) that can be applied instead, or if the task should be incorporated into a lubrication/operator round?

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