Tuesday, 1 October 2019

Avoiding Equipment Failure—Preventive and Predictive Approaches to Maintenance

Averting a system failure before it happens is an ideal scenario for any engineering company. It keeps business ticking smoothly, ensuring the quality and reliability of service. But how is it possible to know something is going to fail? In fact, technology has come a long way in creating innovative solutions that foresee upcoming engineering risks.                                                                                            

Two of the current approaches available to avoid failure are predictive and preventive maintenance. When integrated into an organization’s enterprise resource planning system, they can become an effective tool in managing and preventing problems.

In this article, we’ll uncover more about the two approaches—preventive and predictive—and find out how to choose which option best suits your business needs.

Preventive and Predictive—What’s the Difference?

Both preventive and predictive maintenance types are proactive measures in ensuring that equipment will not break or experience downtime in the near future. Essentially, it is fixing an issue before it becomes a problem. Although both are pre-emptive, they don’t function in quite the same way. Let’s uncover the differences and discover which, if any, solution comes out on top.

Preventive

Preventive maintenance solutions work by scheduling expected downtime to solve issues preemptively. Such maintenance is carried out based on a schedule to create minimum disruption to ...


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