One post tagged with "PM scheduling"

Preventive maintenance is the most effective maintenance strategy that most manufacturers still execute poorly. Not because they don't understand PM — every maintenance manager knows that regularly scheduled maintenance prevents breakdowns. They execute it poorly because their PM scheduling tools are disconnected from reality.

The typical PM program lives in a spreadsheet, a standalone CMMS, or even a whiteboard in the maintenance office. Tasks are scheduled based on calendar intervals or runtime hours that someone estimated years ago. Technicians get a printed work order with instructions written for a generic machine, not the specific unit they're about to work on. Spare parts availability is checked by walking to the parts crib. Completion is documented on paper and entered into the CMMS days later — if at all.

Modern IIoT platforms are changing this by connecting PM scheduling directly to real-time machine data — so maintenance tasks are triggered by actual equipment condition, spare parts are tracked in the same system, and technicians have the information they need before they pick up a wrench.