Preventive Maintenance Checklist
What exactly is preventive maintenance?
Preventive maintenance includes any maintenance action, such as an inspection, service, or replacement, that is conducted as part of a planned schedule rather than in response to a breakdown. And what exactly is the goal of preventive maintenance? An efficient preventative maintenance program can assist limit production downtime and extend the service life of equipment and facilities by recognizing components or parts that are wearing out and repairing or replacing them before they fail.
Importance of Preventive Maintenance Checklist
We all wish that the assets work in a good condition for a long period of time without spending huge amounts of money on them. We want something that helps us:
- Extending the Asset life,
- increase productivity, and
- ultimately decrease maintenance spending.
Examples and Types
Pass-or-Fail
Many machine parts operate in perfect conditions. For example, a compressor has an ideal working temperature. A pass-or-fail checklist can include instructions for monitoring and comparing the compressor’s actual temperature to permissible norms. This standard can be met or not met by the compressor.
Step-by-Step
Depending on asset utilization , some machine parts may require preventative maintenance. For example, a motor may need to be replaced every 500 hours. A step-by-step preventive maintenance checklist leads you through the entire motor replacement process from start to end.
Why preventive maintenance checklists are necessary?
A checklist is a list of things that you need to search or review or validate any work, job, or asset maintenance. Checklists are used in building maintenance, software releases, health care, manufacturing, etc.
A preventive maintenance checklist helps to recognize equipment maintenance actions to keep it in safe condition and increase the reliability of the factory.
To avoid bigger, expensive repairs down the road, proactive maintenance is necessary. A good preventive maintenance strategy saves us money because our team is more focused and planned.
CMMS system like Factech Kaizen reduces reactive maintenance by 90%
Based on maintenance priorities, planned requirements, and previous results, preventive maintenance checklists will help you monitor your assets.
Guess what? ‘Preventive Maintenance‘ is the ultimate solution for this!!
Simply put, preventive maintenance means taking regular care of the asset proactively. rather than reacting and then taking the required measures after the damage has already been done. Taking action before the problem occurs.
Preventive Maintenance is conducted throughout an asset’s normal operating cycle. Unexpected breakdown and their pricey consequences, such as unplanned downtime can be avoided if PM schedules are followed.
The primary goal of a good preventive maintenance program is to establish consistent practices specially designed to improve the performance and safety of the asset at your property.
Preventive maintenance checklists can help you to monitor your assets based on maintenance goals, expected needs, and past performance.
How do you build a preventive maintenance checklist that is effective?
- Assess your environment
- Establish your maintenance goals
- Create a draft checklist
- Test the checklist
- Introduce the checklist
- Refine the checklist
