Understanding Reactive, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance

Poor maintenance strategies can reduce your organization’s overall productive capacity. In current times, the need to be efficient and lean with reduced staff is important.

Your maintenance needs will need to balance the cost of a machine being offline for maintenance with service costs, service time, the cost for parts and the time for those parts to be delivered to where they are needed. You will need to consider your best method for each machine that needs servicing and at certain times whether it needs: Reactive maintenance, Preventive maintenance or Predictive maintenance.

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The first step to having a strong maintenance program that can easily be followed is understanding the difference between reactive, preventive and predictive maintenance.