What is preventative maintenance?

Preventive maintenance offers a multitude of benefits that are essential for organizations seeking to maintain the reliability, longevity, and efficiency of their assets. Firstly, preventive maintenance helps to minimize unexpected breakdowns and unplanned downtime by proactively addressing potential issues before they escalate into major failures. By conducting regular inspections, servicing, and replacements according to a predetermined schedule, organizations can identify and rectify minor faults or signs of wear and tear early on, thus preventing costly disruptions to operations and avoiding the need for emergency repairs.

Secondly, preventive maintenance contributes to extending the lifespan of equipment and reducing the total cost of ownership over time. By keeping assets in optimal condition through proactive maintenance practices, organizations can prolong their operational lifespan, delaying the need for costly replacements. Additionally, preventive maintenance helps to optimize asset performance and energy efficiency by ensuring that equipment operates at peak performance levels. This not only improves productivity and output but also reduces energy consumption and associated costs. Overall, the benefits of preventive maintenance extend beyond immediate cost savings to encompass long-term sustainability and competitiveness for organizations across various industries.

Preventative maintenance ("PM") tasks can be auto-generated by establishing task templates and then setting up triggers on assets that when the circumstances under which preventive maintenance task should be auto-generated (eg. based on a set time scheduled, or by taking metric readings).

Preventative maintenance allows you to pre-define when a task will fall due, and then have Maintainly automatically generate that task prior to it falling due.

Tasks will commonly reoccur on a set time or metric-based schedule.

Maintenance schedules can be any of: