Maintenance is an essential part of the production and manufacturing process. As you know, without a core maintenance function - which keeps the critical machines up and running - production will suffer.
For this reason, choosing a competent team of individuals to work within your maintenance function is crucial. They should be seen as an important contributor to the plant profits and be a value adding service.
Reliability Based Maintenance (RBM) is the unifying concept, which enables diverse maintenance tools and technologies to be used together for a coordinated and complete approach to the maintenance process.
One of the keys to a successful maintenance program is Condition Monitoring.
A successful RBM program requires the use of tools such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, motor monitoring, laser alignment and machine balancing. The program must supply the means to integrate these technologies and produce meaningful information to assist the right people in achieving a value adding maintenance program.