Predictive Maintenance Programs
Any installation with electromechanical equipment in operation has maintenance engineers, people trying to ensure smooth operation, with as few contingencies in daily operation.
Over the years, most of the technical departments involved in the maintenance of equipment, dealing with the organization and maintenance programs have adopted one of the following maintenance techniques:
1 ) Reactive Maintenance: Usually characterized as crisis management. With this method the equipment operates till it is damaged (both a weekday and hour or until dawn Sunday) the technical department is called to provide immediate solution to restore the function of the equipment. Unsurprisingly such a strategy requires maintenance of a large stock of parts within the company in order to allow the restoration of the equipment at the last minute. It is now commonly accepted that such a maintenance option only utters is increased stress on the technical and especially increased operating costs in the company.
2 ) Preventive Maintenance: Preventive maintenance came as a response to the invasive , better time management techniques and reduce equipment breakdowns that left off the company’s production. By adopting this new strategy, technical sections suddenly acquired a high workload inspecting and replacing preventive, parts and accessories without considering their actual situation. The result was raising very high maintenance costs and the company’s staff to be tied for long periods.
3 ) Predictive Maintenance: The third and last maintenance strategy is predictive , which comes to complete and save cost and time than the previous two . This strategy uses techniques for determining the status of machines, which provide important information about action to be taken for the smooth operation of the equipment. With predictive maintenance can predict possible future problems and organize interventions so as to become the most efficient way for the company and its employees.
What does predictive maintenance offer?
1) Reduction in recovery time of unexpected failures
2 ) Increased production
3) Reduce working time of technical department
4 ) Decrease in inventories of emergency spare parts
5) Greater efficiency
What is the correct technical maintenance for my installation?
In this question there is not a direct answer. The right solution for your business, resulting from the needs of each facility and the history of the problems he has faced. A general rule in these could possibly be that in your setup there is a proper technique but the combination of tools for the desired effect with lower cost and greater efficiency.
Predictive maintenance tools:
Essential tool for predictive maintenance is thermography , which allows us , in conjunction with other techniques to document and assess the condition of the electrical equipment and organize the necessary steps to prevent injuries before they occur . Thermography is the greater range of applications in industry, given the fact that in all the machines prior to a fault in the preceding change temperature of the object. For this reason, the thermographic inspections have been so successful in finding future failures.
In combination with other Thermography also popular techniques (but not unique ) are:
1 ) Vibration Analysis
2 ) Ultrasound Inspection
3 ) fluid analysis ( engine oil , etc.)
