Organizing all of your equipment's data is the first step to creating an effective preventive maintenance program. With MicroMain preventive maintenance software, you have access to more than 240 sets of standard procedures that cover common maintenance activities. Relying on a proactive approach to maintenance will help you avoid the high costs of reactive maintenance and improve your maintenance program from top to bottom. The contents of the maintenance plan, including actual work, instructions, schedule, workers, spare parts and contractors, guide all maintenance work activities.
An effective preventive maintenance program requires taking inventory, careful planning, research, and establishing a maintenance routine that is easy to understand and facilitate. Include senior management, maintenance managers, maintenance technicians, and any other personnel who understand the way your system works. For example, it can help you keep track of previous maintenance logs, monitor maintenance progress, create new work orders, and alert you to upcoming schedules. The idea of having a maintenance plan is to make the most of preventive maintenance while reducing downtime.
Keep in mind that as you invest in preventive maintenance, you avoid reactive maintenance costs, which tend to be much higher than a predictive maintenance routine. In one study, researchers found that preventive maintenance costs accounted for only 10 to 30% of the cost of reactive maintenance. Without a section that lists the spare parts needed for maintenance tasks, you will have difficulty budgeting your maintenance program. Each asset can have several types of weekly, monthly, or annual maintenance schedules, and you can change timelines as you see fit, maintaining maintenance all day of the week or distributing it.
As a maintenance manager, you can only get some ideas from talking to maintenance technicians, machine operators, and other professionals who directly operate the machines. For facilities looking to break out of a reactive maintenance routine, a preventive maintenance plan can work wonders. As long as you're ready to adjust your preventive maintenance plan based on your knowledge of the maintenance software and the feedback you receive from your technicians, you don't have to worry.
