Bad Practices, Part 24

March 17, 2014
Here are three more related to “reporting” that you should guard against:

Bad maintenance practices tend to sneak into the way things get done. Here are three more related to “reporting” that you should guard against:

Bad Practice #65 — Omitting from routine maintenance report forms a way to provide feedback that could result in updating to add a necessary step or to remove a step for better allocation of resources.

Bad Practice #66 — Omitting from the review process of routine maintenance forms a means of amending the processes to better reflect current conditions.

For example, the reports for the plant air compressors never show problems with the voltage and current readings and now these are tracked by the power monitoring system. Why waste time manually recording this information and manually entering the data into the CMMS?

Bad Practice #67 — Noting a failure cause during repair but not conducting any sort of analysis as to whether specific changes to the routine maintenance procedures would help prevent a recurrence.

Yes, maintenance resources are tight but preventing a failure is the whole point of maintenance.

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