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Preventive Maintenance Strategy

How to choose between run-to-failure, preventive and predictive maintenance, write PM tasks that actually find or prevent failures, and keep a PM programme lean and effective. For maintenance technicians, planners and reliability engineers in industrial and energy operations.

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54m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Explain when run-to-failure, preventive and predictive maintenance are each a rational choice
  • Describe the six failure patterns and why only a minority of failures are age-related
  • Select the right task trigger — calendar time, usage or condition — for a given failure mode
  • Write PM task instructions that are specific, measurable and linked to a failure mode
  • Identify valueless PM tasks and propose interval or content changes with a clear rationale
  • Use PM compliance as a leading indicator of future equipment reliability

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • Three ways to maintain: run-to-failure, preventive, predictive
    Knowledge
    3m
  • How equipment really fails: the six patterns and the bathtub myth
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Awareness check: maintenance strategies and failure patterns
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Task triggers: calendar time, usage and condition
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Writing PM tasks that find or prevent failures
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Knowledge check: triggers and task quality
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • PM optimisation: kill the waste, fix the intervals
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Workplace task: review five PM tasks
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill check: optimising a PM programme
    Assessment
    7m
4

Mastery

  • PM compliance as a leading indicator — and how to lead the programme
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Workplace task: PM programme health review
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery check: leading the PM programme
    Assessment
    8m

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