How to move from reactive to proactive maintenance A plant's overall success is heavily influenced by the effectiveness of its maintenance organization and how well maintenance activities are incorporated with the facility's production schedule. With millions of dollars invested in equipment, manufacturers need to prioritize and even emphasize their maintenance strategy.   Today, we’re seeing that more and more facilities moving away from legacy maintenance methods where you only fix what’s broken, when it breaks. This antiquated method leads to lost productivity, disruption in production, and waves of negative effects felt throughout the entire organization. Now more than ever facilities need...

Downtime in a plant or facility leads to lost productivity. It disrupts operations, causes maintenance staff to divert time from scheduled projects, and can have significant negative business implications, including lost revenue, significant unplanned expenses, missed deadlines and damage to a company’s reputation. To avoid these problems, manufacturers and facility and plant managers are moving away from traditional maintenance methods where you wait for something to break, and then you fix it. Reactive approaches like this result in disruptions and unplanned downtime. A better approach is preventive maintenance, which is a routine for periodically inspecting equipment with the goal of...

  Although the machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enable predictive maintenance are helpful, they’re only as helpful as they’re trained to be.  

The Pentagon's innovation arm looks to expand predictive maintenance technology to Navy ships.

The past few years have seen growing adoption of predictive analytics within the supply chain, but maintenance, repair and operations may not be the right place just yet.