4020 – 04 – Understanding Preventive Maintenance

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Preventive maintenance, also known as PM, is one of the common forms of maintenance used in manufacturing. It needs regular maintenances like inspecting and lubricating the machines on a regular basis. Most maintenance activates include some sort of preventive maintenance except reactive maintenance.

Preventive maintenance is a practice that has been utilized for thousands of years. The Roman engineers used PM on their buildings and roads, and that is why they remained in good enough condition that they can be visited today. Unfortunately, it wasn’t used as much as it should have been due to expenses. Preventive maintenance nowadays is considered the more efficient form of maintenance available.

Once you work through the costs of hiring a maintenance worker, and using reactive maintenance, you will find that it is cheaper in the long run due to savings of avoiding downtime, labor, and parts.