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

Competency levels

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.

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

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

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

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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