Predictive Maintenance - a 12-Step Program
- Survey the plant in terms of critical, essential, balance of plant categories.
- Choose the machines to put into the program.
- Optimize measurements in terms of parameters and timing.
- Choose the method and educate participants.
- Set criteria (alarms) for assessment.
- Baseline the machine under consideration.
- Setup
- Measure
- Store
- Present (detection)
- Problem assessment (analysis).
- Correct the fault (correction).
(After step 12, the process can be re-entered at step 6.)
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