Question

Why is preventive maintenance in general is more effective than other types of maintenance strategies?

Answer 1

Here is why preventive maintenance, in general, is more effective than other types of maintenance strategies - ​

• ​It decreases the overall equipment downtime & the repairs overall are also reduced.
• As compared to other maintenance strategies it leads to better conservation of assets & increases the overall asset life expectation.
• It eliminates premature replacement of any type of machinery or equipment used by the firm. ​
• It helps to reduce the overtime costs & also helps in efficient & cost-friendly utilisation of maintenance workers.
• The workers have schedules timelines instead of crash basis leading to saving cost over maintenance breakdowns.
• The preventive maintenance has timely & routine repairs leading to fewer large scale maintenance & repair in future.
• Such preventive maintenance methods also support the firm maintenance strategy towards ensuring improved safety & quality environment for everyone.

Overall here are some other advantages which make it more effective than other types of Maintainance strategies -

• The unplanned & reactive maintenance have increased costs which can easily be avoided with preventive maintenance.
• The unplanned maintenance includes lost production, high costs for getting parts & shipping & loss of time due to response to emergencies and knowing faults.
• The unplanned maintenance strategies can cost 3-9 times more than the planned maintenance as in planned maintenance strategies equipment can be shut down to synergise with production downtime & required parts can be gathered much before in time leading to an overall decrease in cost.
• The preventive maintenance has no requirement for condition-based monitoring & hence remove the requirement to conduct & interpret condition monitoring data & related equipment.

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