General description

This section of maintenance world is dedicated to preventive maintenance (PM). We have decided to define preventive maintenance as the combination of all actions in a plant to prevent failures and detect failures early. The two parts of preventive maintenance is 1. Condition monitoring

(actions that detect failures) and Maintenance prevention (actions that prevent failures).

General features

• condition monitoring are all inspections: look, listen, feel, smell, vibration analysis, Amp readings, infrared, ultrasonic’s, oil analysis and much more.
• maintenance prevention are: lubrication, alignment, balancing, operating procedures, cleaning, adjustment, and much more. Condition Monitoring is often looked upon as mostly being vibration analysis.