As maintenance resources get more taxed or constrained, equipment doesn’t decide to adjust to the new conditions and suddenly require less preventive maintenance (PM) to give you the same reliability and uptime. You must adjust to the new conditions. That means doing the same, or more, PM work in less time.
If you’ve tried simply working faster or taking shortcuts, you know those approaches don’t work. So what can you do?
Rather than look at how to do more things faster, look at what you’re actually doing. How much of that PM makes a definite contribution to preventing failure? For example, do you collect vague or useless information? This particular time vampire often goes unrecognized. In Part 2, we’ll explain how to recognize and stop it.
