Preventive maintenance gets postponed
See what should be scheduled before a breakdown makes it urgent.
01 · What is usually happening?
The schedule says the press is due for service on Friday. Friday is a busy day, so it moves to next week, and then to the week after. Nothing happens until the press stops by itself.
Each postponement was reasonable. Together they turn planned maintenance into emergency repair.
The question people usually ask“Why is maintenance always postponed?”
The more useful question“Which services are overdue, what does skipping each risk, and when can the machine actually be spared?”
02 · Common causes
- 01Production always has a reason not to release the machine
- 02The schedule is not tied to the production plan
- 03Nobody has the authority to stop a machine
- 04Spares and technician time are not ready on the day
- 05Overdue services are not visible to the owner
- 06The cost of a breakdown is not compared with the cost of a service
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01Services are placed in the plan, not beside it.
- 02A short stop is agreed with production in advance.
- 03Spares and people are ready on the day.
- 04Overdue services are shown to the owner.
- 05Breakdown cost is compared with service cost.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: Planned work turns into emergency repair, with a week of dispatch lost.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
Preventive maintenance gets postponed
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- Maintenance
What it can lead to: Planned work turns into emergency repair, with a week of dispatch lost.
lamplamp could put each service into the production plan on a quiet day.
Related guidesOne machine breakdown affecting the weekly dispatch plan
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could put each service into the production plan on a quiet day.
- lamp could tell production and the technician a week ahead.
- lamp could list the overdue services by risk.
- lamp could report breakdown cost against service cost.
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