Proactive maintenance is the ultimate goal of a best practice reliability effort. Plants that have good proactive maintenance programs have progressed beyond routine preventive maintenance, and beyond predictive methods to estimate when failures will occur. Proactive programs aggressively pursue root cause analysis, and encourage communications between operating departments to understand and eliminate failures. The constant focus is to identify and deploy comprehensive efforts to extend equipment life. Predictive maintenance techniques are a critical part of a proactive maintenance program, because they provide the diagnostic capability, and the vision to understand machinery behavior and conditions.
Proactive maintenance is more of a state of mind rather than a specific methodology. A great example is when a plant staff has realized that alignment and balancing of rotating equipment can dramatically extend machinery life and reduce failure rates. They have also realized that no matter how well they perform these functions, they must maintain high standards from their equipment suppliers for reliability and validation testing. Proactive maintenance cultures continuously seek to improve they way they design, buy, store, install, and operate their plants so they avoid the need for future maintenance.
Synchronous experts are committed to extending the state of the art in operational excellence for the process industry. Whilst we are unable to continue to offer on site consulting, we are dedicated to continuing the dialogue. Send us your best practice operating procedures to General@SynchronousLLC.com
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