Features of an Effective Preventive Maintenance Program
Preventive Maintenance Tools
Having the right tools available at the right place at the right time is necessary to facilitate the execution of a PM program.
More Proactive Asset Maintenance Tasks
Optimize work order management, parts inventory and other day-to-day maintenance and operations functions.
Efficient Time and User-Based Maintenance Programs
Create a more data-driven, proactive preventive program to save time, maximize ROI and prevent failures before they happen.
Preventive Maintenance Tools
To effectively execute any preventive maintenance program, you need to make sure that you have the right tools available for the task at hand. What this means for your organization will naturally vary based on your technological infrastructure, your team, and your goals.
That said, across the board, purpose-built scheduling and monitoring tools that come along with a PM program will:
- Allow your team to record actionable data and get it into a centralized database
- Streamline route management, helping your technicians execute inspections, complete PMs, and route work orders
- Help you consistently focus on high-priority work
- Give your team the information they need to increase safety, decrease downtime, and extend the asset lifecycle
More Proactive Asset Maintenance Tasks
At its foundation, a preventive maintenance program facilitates easier execution of preventive maintenance practices, increased day-to-day organization and optimized facility and asset management. Specific areas of improvement include:
- More effective work order management, with improved ability to clean work orders and get “garbage in, garbage out”
- Optimized MRO inventory management, which can help your team keep track of parts, automate purchases, and streamline work order completion
- Improved audit preparedness, which can help your team meet safety initiatives, automate training, and comply with regulatory, industry and geographic audits.
Efficient Time and User-Based Maintenance Programs
Whether you run a straightforward maintenance program using visual inspections or a more advanced, tech-driven operation, the right preventive maintenance software can help you:
- Populate dashboards with actionable information
- Track important KPIs over time
- Simplify condition monitoring efforts
- Improve your maintenance schedules
- Create a more data-driven preventive maintenance program
Having all maintenance operations digital is phenomenal. Everybody on the floor can put work orders in without having to call in. It’s lightened the load a lot on our work orders. One employee was getting well over 100 phone calls a day. Now, he’s getting a fifth of those a day.
JOSH HAZELTON
| REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER
The Right Software Can Help
A purpose-built CMMS software can help automate, optimize and streamline preventive maintenance efforts
