Choosing Between Preventive and Predictive Maintenance For Your Business
Two of the major approaches to maintaining a manufacturing organization’s equipment line are predictive and preventive maintenance. Both of these methods provide organizations with a unique value but are vastly different from one another.
Preventive maintenance has been the standard for manufacturing organizations for some time. This strategy is rather simple: maintenance all pieces of equipment at set time intervals. For most organizations, this depends on the current statuses of their different pieces of equipment and the age of these pieces of equipment.
Predictive maintenance is a strategy that utilizes real time data collection in order to determine a piece of equipment’s maintenance schedule. Rather than performing maintenance on a set schedule for all pieces of equipment,