Preventive Maintenance
Reliability Centered Maintenance has changed the way we think about Preventive Maintenance (PM). It has cased some to question whether it is even necessary to do preventive maintenance. The truth is most manufacturing and distribution facilities would benefit from a good preventive maintenance program. It would be especially beneficial to those plants/facilities that rely on breakdown or run-to-failure maintenance.
What is Preventive maintenance?
Preventive maintenance is planned maintenance of plant and equipment that is designed to improve equipment life and avoid any unplanned maintenance activity. PM includes lubrication, cleaning, adjusting, and minor component replacement to extend the life of equipment and facilities. Its purpose is to minimize breakdowns and excessive depreciation. Equipment should not be allowed to go to the breaking point. In its simplest form, preventive maintenance can be compared to the service schedule for an automobile.
A bona fide preventive maintenance program should include:
- Non-destructive testing
- Periodic inspection
- Preplanned maintenance activities
- Maintenance to correct deficiencies found through testing or inspections.
The amount of preventive maintenance needed at a facility caries greatly. It can range from a walk through inspection of facilities and equipment after a certain number of hours or a certain number of units produced, etc.
Many reasons exist for establishing a PM program. Listed below are a few of these. Whenever any of these reasons are present, a PM program is likely needed.
Reasons for Preventive Maintenance
- Increased Automation and productivity
- Avoidance of Business loss due to production delays
- Reduction of insurance inventories of spare parts
White Systems, with its regionally located, Field Service organization, has been performing preventive maintenance on carousels and ASR equipment for over forty years.
White’s Customer Service & Support Group will work with you to design and execute a preventive maintenance program to maximize your carousel system’s uptime, reliability and productivity.
White Systems
Customer Service and Support
30 Boright Ave.
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
Contact Customer Service and Support
Phone: 1 (800) 571-8822
Fax: 1 (908) 272-2561
E-mail: css@whitesystems.com
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