Industrial equipment wears out and this is natural. However, to ensure that all the machines and equipment in your industrial plant work properly for long periods of time, maintenance is essential. There are a few different types of maintenance that can be performed and predictive is one of them.
Creating a routine for checking machinery can even reduce your costs and increase their useful life, avoiding unpleasant surprises that undermine production.
What Is Predictive Maintenance?
Predictive maintenance is based on a methodology, a corporate philosophy. The central idea is to monitor all equipment periodically, using the machines’ own indicators as a basis. The technique uses the state of the equipment as a basis through field inspections.
The most interesting thing about predictive maintenance in relation to other industrial maintenance is that it is able to conclude what is the real condition of the equipment in terms of wear and degradation.
Why Do Predictive Maintenance?
Predictive maintenance offers a number of benefits for the industrial plant. Check out:
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- cost reduction – there is the possibility to detect wear and errors before the situation is untenable;
- increased productivity – monitoring ensures that the equipment will be available for use when necessary, avoiding corrective and emergency maintenance;
- increased service life – by taking the right actions at the right time, faults that had not been identified can be corrected, preventing the loss of any component, for example.
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To perform predictive maintenance, several different tools are used. Analysis of oil and other fluids, microfiltration, analysis of the state of the surface, study of vibrations, structural analysis, spectrometry and ferrography are some of them. In addition, we can still count on the help of some management software.
Remember that with predictive maintenance it is possible to make much more use of the potential of your equipment and generate positive impacts on production. Industries can also consider preventive maintenance if it suits them.