Implementation of Predictive Maintenance

In today's production systems, machine breakdowns are very severe. They not only generate unscheduled downtimes with related expenses and dissatisfied customers, but they also wreak havoc with staff scheduling (additional shifts) and warehousing (additional storage), as well as quality deterioration (scrapped components) and subsequent machine warm-up periods.

Most programs for maintenance management have been outlined by a variety of authors. According to Bateman [1], there are three basic types of maintenance programs, including reactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance.

Many organisations have traditionally used a reactive maintenance policy, simply fixing machinery when they break down. Improved technology and the skill of maintenance employees have caused several organisations to abandon this reactive strategy in recent years. Improved technology and the skill of maintenance employees have lately forced several organisations to abandon this reactive strategy and opt for a more proactive strategy.