IMS CAFM providing The Complete Guide to Preventive Maintenance System. Preventive maintenance (PM) is a scheduled maintenance system performing regularly whether it is weekly, monthly, or yearly. Preventive maintenance system helps to prevent unexpected failures in the future. Put simply, it’s about fixing things before they break and this the main point of it.

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In this blog, we will know everything about preventive maintenance (A - Z); how does it work, its types, benefits, examples, and the difference between preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance.

How does preventive maintenance work?

Software and technology is designed to run preventive maintenance system at any facility and helps produce stable operations, ensure compliance with warranties and resolve issues impacting production before they happen.

Preventive maintenance is regularly and routinely performed on physical assets to reduce the chances of equipment failure and unplanned machine downtime and this kind of processes can be very costly for maintenance teams and facility managers.

A preventive maintenance strategy is a commonly used strategy that falls between reactive maintenance and predictive maintenance. A preventive maintenance task is performed while the equipment is still working to prevent unexpected break downs.

Types of preventive maintenance:

Preventive maintenance has 4 main types, you will notice that the 4 types are the same and has the same function with different names. Actually, it’s not like what you think at all. Each type has different options with different functions. Let’s discover the 4 major types of preventive maintenance.

Predictive maintenance

Predictive maintenance is a process of scheduling corrective maintenance before the break down happened. The maintenance team needs to first determine the problem or issue of the equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed. Then the manager or the man who is responsible for maintenance will schedule tasks in order to prevent unexpected equipment failures.

Prescriptive maintenance

Prescriptive maintenance doesn’t just show that failure is going to happen and when, but also why it’s happening. Perspective maintenance helps your facility to analyze and determine different options and potential outcomes, in order to lessen any risk to the operation system.

Time-based preventive maintenance

Calendar or time-based preventive maintenance means that the maintenance schedule is designed according to the system; time and place and based on a calendar interval. Actions of this type of maintenance is triggered when the due date approaches and necessary work orders have been created.

Usage-based preventive maintenance

Usage-based preventive maintenance is about the actual utilization of an asset for each facility. Usage-based preventive maintenance takes into account the average daily usage or exposure to environmental conditions of an asset and uses it to forecast a due date for a future inspection or maintenance task.

In this article, we have provided the Complete Guide to Preventive Maintenance System so that you can use it as a reference once you have applied the preventive maintenance to your facility or company.