How to Identify if your Preventive Maintenance Program is Broken?

? How to Identify if your Preventive Maintenance Program is Broken

 

Many organizations have ineffective PM Programs. Some are aware of the problem, but don’t know what to do, while others are not even aware they have a problem. Sometimes we become trapped in an environment where we can’t see the problem, or we’ve become numb to it. I have traveled all over the world and the problem is not isolated to a region, an area, or even a country, it’s merely a lack of understanding what an "effective PM procedure" and PM program looks like or how to measure its effectiveness. 

I have used this analogy for years… "You know you are in a reactive maintenance mode if you are performing PM on equipment that continues to fail". It’s not logical to perform PM on equipment that may not be in a maintainable state. If this is true, the equipment must be returned to original specifications or that “maintainable state” and then use effective PMs to manage the reliability of the equipment.

So my question to you is: Are your PM Labor Hours going up as emergency labor (EM) hours are going up? Do they stay at an unacceptable level? Most companies tell me this is hard data to find. My answer is… They have a much larger problem than just a broken PM program. 

If someone finds themselves in this situation what should they do? Please comment, let's learn from each other.

The Author: Ricky Smith CMRP, CMRT, CRL

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