Preventive Maintenance Plan
Preventive Maintenance Plan Basics
A preventive maintenance plan, when developed and executed correctly, should deliver greater productivity and lower overhead. Preventive maintenance is any maintenance we do to prevent further, more consequential maintenance. Efficient and effective preventive maintenance keeps production moving and minimizes downtime. When components don’t last until their next scheduled maintenance, it is all too common for…
A Preventive Maintenance Plan Delivers Reliability
A preventive maintenance plan should deliver the results that are essential for good maintenance and reliability. Preventive maintenance is any maintenance we do to prevent further, more consequential maintenance. Unfortunately, many (if not most) production departments view almost all scheduled PMs as a nuisance and an interruption to productivity. It is crucial to consider the…
An Inspection Type PMs is Intrinsically a Non-Value Added Activity
I’ve been engaged in a very spirited debate with a colleague of mine regarding inspection type PMs and specifically if these types of PMs are value added or non-value added. I take a traditional approach to the phrase “value added,” insomuch as to believe for a task to be value added it must satisfy three…