It’s cute when puppies chase their own tails. As they mature, they tend to stop such foolishness. Unfortunately, many maintenance organizations are still at the puppy stage when it comes to equipment repairs.
So, you’ve got a great team that quickly responds to trouble calls and makes expert repairs. Could their expertise be due to repeatedly making the same repairs? Practice makes perfect; maybe it’s time to aim for less perfection.
To stop chasing your tail, you need to see patterns in the trouble codes entered for the repairs. Ensure those codes are accurate and are being used. Generate a report from your computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to show the trouble codes for a group of equipment. Group by location, function, feeder ID, or whatever else may be appropriate.
Suppose you group by location and you find the two most common trouble codes are “failed electronics” and “motor winding failure”. This is a strong indication that equipment in that area has power anomalies in the supply and/or grounding/bonding deficiencies. Address those, and you knock out many future failures. Be a big dog.