What is predictive maintenance, and how can we harness it?

Every manufacturer requires a combination of sophisticated old and new machinery in order to run their factories and produce their goods. Any equipment failure or unplanned downtime will have an adverse effect on plant operations as the necessary repairs cost time and money.

This is because historically people have only repaired their equipment once it’s already too late causing their production lines to slow or stop. The goal of predictive maintenance is to predict and prevent these issues before they even happen. By drawing upon huge sets of data together with different physical sensors monitoring values such as vibration temperature pressure or flow modern systems can utilize machine service and repair history to predict when a part might fall below its optimal operating efficiency. Having this data enables the scheduling of a service or part replacement ahead of failure when it has the least impact on the entire production line a method which has proven demonstrable business value in reducing material waste and slashing down times in order to establish a framework that works towards predictive maintenance.

Many companies choose to implement preventive maintenance applications in order to improve the coordination between all their preventive maintenance related tasks as it helps in simplifying what is actually quite a complex process. Usually, almost every preventive maintenance application which is available in the market stores various essential data related to company’s maintenance in a computer system in order to improve the time required to track all the inspections (manual or automatic), repairs and replacement of the equipment.

Because all of the data are stored in a system which is inside the company or companies offers, the company can harness the power of preventive maintenance application in effectively managing various other tasks such as managing work, orders, purchase list, maintenance, inventories, etc. The best thing about this application is its ability to automatically get priority to the maintenance related tasks and collection of all the information any technician will ever need to perform his or her work in best possible way. So, overall one can say that preventive maintenance application doesn’t only help companies to improve their workflow and save a lot of resources on manual inspection and repairs, but it also helps professionals to carry out their job with the utmost professionalism.

The only problem is managing a preventive maintenance software has a big learning curve as every factory or organization have their own set of equipment, and so the data generated from that equipment will be unique in themselves. You need professionals who can understand those data and can make appropriate decisions on whether to repair or not a specific equipment so as to prevent any unplanned downtimes.

Undoubtedly, coordinating every single device with your preventive maintenance software can be a headache, but once it set up, you and your company will save big time on money, workforce as well as time.

Precision IT Consulting has the right expertise in implementing such a solution which includes gathering the data from your factory or equipment and running advanced analytics on that data to pinpoint where the issues lie relay or offer solutions in this field. As an experienced provider for smart manufacturing deployments and analysis based on neural network algorithms.

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