Condition-Based Maintenance Strategy
Doing Too Much, Or Too Little?
How do you know if you’re doing too much preventive maintenance (PMs) or too much time-based maintenance?
If you recognize that you’re in a reactive maintenance organization, responding to emergency call-outs due to unplanned downtime, then you might need a new maintenance strategy.
A great condition-based maintenance strategy can be a balance of PM tactics utilized alongside a properly optimized computerized maintenance management systems or enterprise asset management systems (CMMS/EAM) and an appropriate predictive maintenance (PdM) program.
Balancing preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) can be challenging, but if asset health is your goal, you’ll probably find that, like many manufacturing organizations, ~30% of your assets are appropriate for preventive maintenance (PM) or a time-based maintenance approach and ~70%+ of your assets are appropriate for some form of predictive maintenance (PdM) approach, though based on your asset makeup, yours might vary a bit. Regardless of where you are today, AMSS can assist you in developing an appropriate ‘on-condition’, condition-based maintenance strategy.
Our CBM strategy leans heavily toward non-invasive measurements, minimizing the use of preventive and corrective actions to avoid time-based or run-time maintenance protocols and instead basing the need for invasive maintenance upon the health or condition of the asset by using PdM tools. Contact us for more.