Maintenance Management Archives

Maintenance Management

This Maintenance Management article series introduces and discusses maintenance management strategies, systems and processes for optimizing plant and equipment maintenance, maximizing equipment uptime, and for minimizing operating costs.

This Maintenance Management series aims to provide reputed, useful content that improves an operation’s and organization’s maintenance effectiveness.

The Maintenance Management series of articles are provided with permission of Lifetime Reliability Solutions.

NOTE: The series does not cover related commercial or vendor software or database management applications.

The Purpose of Maintenance of Plant and Equipment in Industrial Operations

Introduction to the Concepts and an Overview of the Purpose of Maintenance at the Turn of the 21st Century

Maintenance management is a key element of enterprise asset management and applies for the whole lifetime of your physical assets. The purpose of maintenance is much more than ‘fixing things up’; it is the appropriate management of asset health for its lifetime.

The philosophy that “a stitch in time will save nine” is very appropriate and is an important part of maintenance. On operating plants where this approach is formally recognised and acted upon, there is a very significant lift in the reliability of the plant.

[Read more…]