The Journey of Maintenance
The journey of maintenance - C triple P
(Corrective, Preventive, Proactive and Prescriptive)
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While I was at an airport's arrival terminal, I noticed passengers repeatedly struggling with faulty three-wheeled trolleys, with the front wheel lifted up. Unfortunately, our lack of attention to even the basic maintenance requirements has resulted in a poor customer experience and increased costs. To ensure the success of any project, we must prioritize maintenance as part of our after-sales support. Here are the stages of maintenance development I'd like to share:
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Corrective Maintenance:??Is a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate and rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, device or system can be restored to normal operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations.
Preventive Maintenance:?????Recommended maintenance timelines provided by manufacturers/vendors.?Partial or full maintenance is regularly performed at specific intervals in the hopes of preventing early machine/device breakdown by creating scheduled downtime for maintenance.?The time intervals chosen would have been decided by the vendors how built it, based on their projection of the product lifespan.?It involves a lot of planning, record-keeping, and scheduling, that must be followed, and routine inspection has to be carried out regardless of whether the machine is functioning optimally or not.
Proactive Maintenance:???????Is a technique that is currently heavily promoted as the next step in maintenance: it involves incorporating Industry 4.0 sensors and other monitoring strategies to gauge when machines/devices actually require maintenance.?It is condition-based and tends to rely on Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can work in real-time, hence providing up-to-date conditions of the actual machine/device – increasing efficiency and decreasing cost.?These devices will continuously or periodically monitor actual conditions of the machine/device and the data can be available remotely where cloud will provide analytics as to the time before maintenance is even required.?Promising that it will only perform maintenance when it is required, hence causing less downtime and improving productivity, beside increasing efficiency and decreasing cost.
Prescriptive Maintenance:??Is similar to Predictive Maintenance but this type of maintenance goes one step further it will automate the maintenance process.?Instead of just monitoring and providing recommendations, the aim is for machine learning and Artificial Intelligent (AI) techniques beside IoT (sensing, controlling and actuating) to allow the machine/device to make its own decision toward performing the maintenance steps.
Customer Service Consultant
5 年World is changing very fast and we have to adapt these changes by lifting up our skills Thanks alot for sharing your post
ICT Sales Leader@ 3G Company Limited | MBA
5 年Fully agree Abdalla
Cyber and Information Security Management | Information Technologies Risk Management | Co-Founder MAINTICA
5 年Many devices are providing enough information for predictive, even prescriptive maintenance. The issue, I see, is the integration of such information with organization assets lifecycle management which can provide a centralized history of all actions taken on the particular asset. The integration would help maintenance managers to access all important information in a single point instead of a proprietary interface for each device.