Track: Reliability and Maintenance

Abstract

Proactive maintenance is one highly effective but overshadowed generic maintenance strategy, which when effectively implemented, is significant in improving equipment reliability. Proactive maintenance aims to eliminate, reduce, automate or simplify maintenance without compromising reliability or safety. Proactive maintenance concerns empowering individuals to solve problems and in its simplest form, it encompasses three core concepts: Maintenance elimination, Maintenance prevention and Maintenance improvement. Proactive maintenance involves moving beyond standard task lists and reactive repairs to an analysis about why a component failed in the first place. It may mean finding a process, product, or procedure that extends the life of a component and requires less frequent inspections. It can be as simple as standardizing screws, improving access to hard-to-reach inspection points, or showing internal customers how to fill out a work order correctly. This study was carried out to unveil the aspects of proactive maintenance that makes it superior to other generic maintenance strategies which have been popularized over the years at its expense.