AN EVOLUTIONARY STEP FORWARD IN PLANNED MAINTENANCE, PROMISING MAXIMUM ASSET UPTIME, OPTIMAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES AND SUBSTANTIAL COST REDUCTION THE MAINTENANCE DEFICIT Every day, businesses in all sectors sacrifice valuable income to unsustainable asset maintenance strategies. While recognising the need to…
This is the second in a series of articles on predictive maintenance. In the introductory article (Available here), we discussed the 4 maintenance models: Reactive maintenance waits for parts to break before repairing them, often making matters worse and resulting…
These days, neither management nor operational personnel argue the merits of ongoing asset maintenance. In modern manufacturing or mining environments, 20% to 60% of operational costs relate to maintenance activities, excluding upgrades or improvements. Thus, making maintenance as efficient as…