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Common preventive maintenance for air compressors revolve around detecting and fixing leaks and maintaining proper pressure to minimize energy usage. Additionally, although air compressors are a capital investment for businesses,…
Common preventive maintenance for fans includes cleaning blades, lubricating parts, checking vibration, and inspecting bearings. Although daily maintenance is minimal, monthly and yearly tasks should not be ignored. Fans are…
Common preventive maintenance for pumps includes regular inspection for stability and balance, scheduled lubrication, and thorough evaluation of potential problems. Pumps receiving proper maintenance in this manner almost never experience…
Common preventive maintenance for fire alarms and smoke detectors is minimal and revolves around regular testing to ensure proper function. Any problems occurring within the first five years are typically…
Common preventive maintenance for cooling towers ensures circulating water is clean and regular maintenance keeps fans and motors functional. Various maintenance tasks require daily, weekly, monthly or annual performance. Tip:…
Common preventive maintenance for chillers typically involves cleaning, monitoring temperature and pressure, and general system testing. Depending on the maintenance tasks, technicians must perform them anywhere from daily to annually.
Boilers are heavy-duty equipment that generate hot water or steam by burning fuel. Boilers generally operate under high temperatures and pressures. Given that they are subject to extreme working conditions,…
Electric motors convert electricity to useful make machinery work. It is estimated that 70% of all electric energy used in the manufacturing sector in the US is consumed by motor…
Common preventive maintenance for air handlers includes making sure filters and coils are clean and dampers and ducts are efficient. Beyond a quick visual daily inspection,…
With the recent rise in catastrophic wildfires, we began to think about how maintenance might be able to help. Forest fires can be reduced by protecting areas around young forests…
A common checklist used for lighting preventive maintenance is the one the U.S. Department of Energy outlines (provided below). That said,…
Preventive maintenance for steam traps revolves around the pressure ratings. Maintenance checklists include items about temperature, pressure, condensation and equipment functioning. Steam traps have automatic valves that allow steam to…
Equipment failures are a major setback for plant operations and overall productivity. During breakdowns, the restoration of plant operations lies in the hands of the maintenance team. Promoting a reliability…
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) introduces a whole new set of security risks to a manufacturing organization. The connectivity that allows IIoT to deliver…
Criticality analysis is a measurement used to prioritize assets in maintenance planning. It takes a combination of the seriousness of a potential failure…
Since Operations often focuses on production uptime while maintenance focuses on improving reliability and minimizing costs, the two are often at odds. For example, it might be difficult for a…
Staying on top of maintenance issues for CNC machines requires careful scheduling, observant technicians, available spare parts, and comprehensive documentation. According to industry sources, most businesses can…
What is maintainability? Maintainability refers to the ease with which maintenance activities can be performed on an asset or equipment. Its purpose is to measure…
The key to improving schedule compliance for your preventive maintenance is to analyze your data. This starts with tracking your PM …
The most common way to measure schedule compliance is by tracking your preventive maintenance jobs. PM tasks, like lubrication or replacing air filters,…
The way I’d advise documenting preventive maintenance is with a CMMS or other form of work order management software, but the exact…
We often tout preventive maintenance as a way to reduce expenses from unplanned downtimes, but it is true that PM can improve safety as well. How? It…
It really depends on the industry, but there are a few consistently missed types of preventive maintenance, including: Changing fluids in mechanical assets Routine checks on…
If you want a successful preventive maintenance program, you have to start with the technicians. They are the ones implementing the day-to-day program, and if they don’t buy into…
There are a few different approaches to preventive maintenance optimization (PMO). One of the easiest methods is simply asking your technicians. Odds…
Every facility wants to reduce its spending, so it makes sense at some point to look at reducing maintenance costs. A lot of the time, though, those costs link directly…
In a general, global sense, the signs seem to show that deferred maintenance will probably decrease in the future. One of these signs is the fact that…
I don’t really think there’s a golden ratio for how many PMs you have for each corrective repair task. Here’s why. You might have heard of the …
Most people will sing preventive maintenance’s (PM) praises – I will too – but that doesn’t mean that a PM program is completely foolproof (or immune to…
Most people might think that apartments, houses, and buildings don’t need as much preventive maintenance (PM) as an asset or large piece of machinery. After all, the building can’t “break…