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	Optimizing Preventive Maintenance Schedules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Preventive maintenance is useful for preventing failures and increasing reliability.
		Preventive maintenance is only useful if the failure rate is increasing with age (the shape parameter is greater than 1.0).
		Preventive maintenance should be scheduled at a frequency that minimizes the total of these two costs.
	www.engineeredsoftware.com /mo_opm.asp (642 words)

	Preventive Maintenance
		Preventive maintenance is a schedule of planned maintenance actions aimed at the prevention of breakdowns and failures.
		The primary goal of preventive maintenance is to prevent the failure of equipment before it actually occurs.
		Preventive maintenance of a component that is assumed to have an exponential distribution (which implies a constant failure rate) does not make sense!
	www.weibull.com /SystemRelWeb/preventive_maintenance.htm (1375 words)

	Reliability Center, Inc. - Is Preventive Maintenance Necessary? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Preventive maintenance is planned maintenance of plant and equipment that is designed to improve equipment life and avoid any unplanned maintenance activity.
		Priority should be given to preventive maintenance and a very aggressive program to monitor the schedule and ensure that the work is completed according to schedule should be in place.
		Maintenance and training professionals have estimated that a company should spend $1200 per year for training of supervisors and $1000 per year for each craftsperson.
	www.reliability.com /articles/article37.htm (1681 words)

	Memo: Preventive Maintenance Eligibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Congress' acknowledgement of preventive maintenance activities as an eligible activity on Federal-aid highways is a logical step that reinforces the importance of implementing a continuing preventive maintenance program.
		Functionally, Federal-aid eligible preventive maintenance activities are those that address aging, oxidation, surface deterioration, and normal wear and tear from day-to-day performance and environmental conditions.
		Preventive maintenance activities extend the service life of the roadway asset or facility in a cost-effective manner.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /preservation/100804.htm (720 words)

	Preventive maintenance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maintenance, including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement, performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring.
		While preventive maintenance is generally considered to be worthwhile, it is important to note that there are risks such as equipment failure or human error involved when performing PM, just as in any maintenance operation.
		The phrase 'preventive maintenance' (and its sibling 'predictive maintenance') is used to differentiate from maintenance that is performed to fix a problem after it has occurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preventive_maintenance (206 words)

	AOPA Pilots' Guide to Preventive Maintenance
		Probably the most common reason for pilots not to perform their own routine maintenance is the belief that the FAA will permit only such a limited amount of work to be handled by the owner that it is not worthwhile to even attempt it.
		The assembly operation is preventive maintenance and subject to the provisions of Sections 43.3, 43.7, and 43.9.
		Each person performing maintenance, alteration, or preventive maintenance on an aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance shall use methods, techniques, and practices prescribed in the current manufacturer’s maintenance manual or instructions for continued airworthiness prepared by its manufacturer, or other methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the administrator, except as noted in FAR 43.16.
	www.watsonvillepilots.org /articles/DIYmaint.htm (5475 words)

	Maintenance management, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, root cause analysis, Planning and scheduling, CMMS, RCFA, ...
		Maintenance world is an article source for maintenance management and equipment reliability professionals.
		The topics covered are meant to include most concerns of maintenance management: preventive maintenance, planning and scheduling, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CMMS, maintenance engineering, equipment knowledge, and the operations and maintenance partnership.
		Maintenance management, Preventive Maintenance, and planning and scheduling, are the most popular topics, but you will find much detailed technical information in our equipment knowledge and Root Cause Analysis Sections.
	www.maintenanceworld.com (862 words)

	Stretching your dollars: preventive maintenance Camping Magazine - Find Articles
		Preventive maintenance is a way of doing work--a continual process.
		For example, the camp/conference center staff may have identified in their risk management plan a unique circumstance with the location of a well near an agriculture site (possible nitrate/nitrite contamination) and determined that more careful monitoring was necessary than what the state or ACA required.
		Performing regular maintenance checks at specific intervals can extend the life of the equipment, prevent it from failure, and help to ensure that it will perform under peak conditions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1249/is_2004_May-June/ai_n6134208 (727 words)

	CMMS Preventive Maintenance Work Order Software
		Duplicate preventive maintenance work orders are also eliminated, which is not always a feature of preventive programs.
		Closing completed preventive and scheduled work orders is fast, easy, and intuitive and enables you to avoid unnecessary equipment failures by simply being one step ahead.
		COGZ preventive maintenance program scheduling is automation for your maintenance management operation.
	www.cogz.com (561 words)

	Equipment Maintenance Strategies, Preventive, Predictive Maintenance and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Articles
		Condition Based Maintenance For Coal Handling Plant Of Thermal Power Stations How one power station has implemented Condition Based Maintenance to detect the onset of a degradation mechanism thereby allowing casual stresses to be eliminated or controlled prior to any significant deterioration in the component physical state.
		Maintenance Method For Critical Equipments Of Coal Handling Plant Developing a special method for maintenance of Critical Equipments is necessary for improving maintenance quality and reducing operating costs.
		Maintenance Optimization by Integrating Technologies and Process Change This paper describes a process, which may be used to identify existing resources and to specify new technologies necessary to implement an integrated Predictive Maintenance Program.
	www.plant-maintenance.com /maintenance_articles_rcm.shtml (4250 words)

	CMMS and Preventive Maintenance Systems from QBIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		QBICFlex is a flexible, yet powerful CMMS and preventive maintenance solution that will help you identify what assets you have, where they are, how they are working, and how much they are costing you.
		A well-implemented preventive maintenance program is cheaper than repairing or replacing major equipment by avoiding “deferred maintenance” disasters that become time consuming and costly capital expenditure a few years down the road.
		Proper preventative maintenance procedures and inventory tracking may reduce material costs and inventory level as much as eighteen (18%) percent and cut downtime losses by twenty (20%) percent.
	www.qbiciii.com (217 words)

	Preventive Maintenance Software - Worth Your Investment!
		Preventive maintenance software can be compared to an insurance policy.
		The investment is the initial cost of preventive maintenance software and the costs of implementation and training preventive maintenance for your employees, if necessary.
		In turn, the software will be low cost preventive maintenance for all of your equipment work once your routines have been established and organized into your daily schedules.
	www.cogz.com /preventive-maintenance-software.htm (454 words)

	Selling preventive maintenance program
		Nevertheless, preventive maintenance is not easy to sell to managers who have not experienced a catastrophic equipment failure, or who are not aware of the financial impact of unscheduled outages in their facility.
		Although preventive maintenance programs are generally thought of as scheduled outages, they are better performed in two distinct phases: operational and shutdown.
		Although this may not be included in all maintenance programs, it is particularly necessary in facilities that experience voltage spikes (insulation damaging) and have high harmonic content.
	ceenews.com /mag/electric_selling_preventive_maintenance (1295 words)

	OneSource Preventive Maintenance - USA
		The ability to perform preventive maintenance on an instrument is a custom protocol carefully worked into an instrument’s design.
		Preventive maintenance built specifically for your instrument ensures that you are able to take appropriate action before any potential downtime occurs.
		Preventive maintenance is a crucial part in maintaining instrument functionality.
	las.perkinelmer.com /OneSource/Preventive_Maintenance.htm (462 words)

	datastream.net - Facility Maintenance Software: Datastream: Facility Preventive Maintenance & Asset Management
		The facility maintenance and management world is presented with a variety of very unique challenges that must be dealt with on a daily basis.
		Datastream 7i's facility maintenance software modules and features that come standard are designed to help facilities managers achieve all their goals.
		When you implement facility maintenance software they will be able to receive and update work orders in real-time, out in the field where they actually complete their work.
	www.datastream.net /english/pages/FacilityMaintenance.aspx (825 words)

	Predictive/Preventive Maintenance Products
		This lesson focuses on the general purpose of an effective predictive maintenance program by showing how methods such as vibration analysis, and lubricant and trend analysis, can be used to determine equipment condition and predict equipment life.
		Failure Analysis and Prevention - Provides you a comprehensive coverage of every aspect of this critical field - from a review of the engineering aspects of failure analysis to detailed discussions of the major types of failures to in-depth analysis of failures of specific components and assemblies.
		Preventive/Predictive Maintenance - Controlling your assets as opposed to your assets controlling you is one of the key goals of a solid maintenance strategy.
	www.maintenanceresources.com /productsshowcase/productlisting/predictivepage.htm (1752 words)

	CPMM Assessment: Preventive Maintenance
		If manufacturers' recommendations for preventive maintenance are used to develop the preventive maintenance program, they should be adjusted, since these recommendations usually under-maintain the equipment.
		Detailed checklists are not essential to have a successful preventive maintenance program.
		Preventive maintenance tasks that are floating or based on last completion date may present an incomplete picture of the status of the preventive maintenance program.
	users.smartlite.it /afe/quizzes/cpmmapm.asp (221 words)

	Preventive Maintenance Questions and Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Answer (Q4): Title 23, section 116(d) provides the legal basis for making PM eligible for federal-aid: "A preventive maintenance activity shall be eligible for Federal assistance under this title of the State demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the activity is a cost-effective means of extending the useful life of a Federal-aid highway."
		Answer (Q5): First, the preventive maintenance activities would have to meet the conditions established in the October 8 memo, and would need to be activities identified through a systematic process and extend the service life of the bridge or pavement.
		Certain maintenance activities that are considered routine maintenance remain a State funded responsibility.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /preservation/100804qa.htm (950 words)

	When preventive maintenance doesn’t work
		Predictive maintenance is the use of technology or some form of condition monitoring to predict equipment failure.
		Detective maintenance refers to work that determines whether a failure has already occurred, and applies well to hidden failures that aren’t (at least initially) evident when they occur.
		With such a huge potential to improve business competitiveness, maintenance managers have a great vehicle for generating interest and support among senior management, all of whom are looking for rapid return.
	www.plantservices.com /articles/2006/040.html (694 words)

	Preventive Maintenance - Preventive Maintenance Program — TMA
		TMA makes it easy to stay on top of preventive maintenance for any piece of equipment, asset or vehicle.
		Periodic inspections of equipment or areas are easy to schedule and track using a preventive maintenance program from TMA.
		One of the most outstanding features of TMA is the detailed preventive maintenance library.
	www.tmasystems.com /products_modules_preventive_maintenance.asp (115 words)

	Maintenance Management, Maintenance Management Consultant, Maintenance Consultant, Maintenance Audit, Reliability ...
		IDCON, INC is a reliability and maintenance management consulting firm, also known as a management asset firm.
		Since 1972, we have provided maintenance consulting services to small, mid-sized and large companies in 43 different countries.
		The philosophy is based on common sense and basic maintenance asset management principles.
	www.idcon.com (239 words)

	Preventive Maintenance, Onsite Computer Maintenance and Repairs, New York Computer Maintenance Contracts
		North Country Computer provides preventive maintenance service programs to address the needs of businesses that do not have qualified computer technicians on staff.
		Basic equipment maintenance such as data backup, internal and external component cleaning and software updates is administered on a scheduled basis.
		Defrag and scan disk maintenance programs are run to detect any problems that your hard drive may have.
	www.northcountrycomputer.com /Preventive_Maintenance_Programs.htm (687 words)

	Preventive Maintenance Software
		MaintStar is a computerized Maintenance Management software program that allows users to keep a complete record of all their equipment, including vehicles, work orders, parts and more.
		With MaintStar, preventive maintenance schedules can be set up, so your equipment can be kept running at the peak of efficiency, and major breakdowns can be prevented.
		The number of preventive maintenance (PM) reminders per vehicle are unlimited and flexible, allowing scheduling by day, miles, hours, kilometers, etc. Meter rollovers or replacements are automatically adjusted to keep your PM's on track, and cascading PM's eliminate possible duplication of services.
	www.worldsweeper.com /FleetManagement/v7n2maintsoftware.html (1009 words)

	Preventive Maintenance, condition monitoring, inspection, preventive maintenance articles
		We have decided to define preventive maintenance as the combination of all actions in a plant to prevent failures and detect failures early.
		Examples of maintenance prevention are: lubrication, alignment, balancing, operating procedures, cleaning, adjustment, and much more.
		Visit our main sponsors to view examples of interesting condition monitoring and preventive maintenance books as well as preventive maintenance consulting.
	www.maintenanceworld.com /preventive-maintenance.htm (756 words)

	Preventive Maintenance Software / Maintenance Scheduling Software
		Preventive Maintenance Software is an easy-to-use, affordable Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) that allows you to easily track and monitor the maintenance and repair schedule of any kind of equipment.
		It lets you plan routine maintenance tasks and intervals which helps prevent costly downtime and reduce wasted effort and document emergency repairs, jobs and any other activity related to your fixed assets.
		Everything from preventative maintenance such as oil changes to scheduled car washes can be tracked, reported with this simple CMMS solution.
	www.imonitsoftware.com (647 words)

	Preventive Maintenance
		Preventive maintenance is limited to the following work, provided it does not involve complex assembly operations:
		(ii) The inspections and maintenance tasks are performed in accordance with instructions contained by the special inspection and preventive maintenance program approved as part of the aircraft's type design or supplemental type design.
		Prior to the unit's intended use, an operational check must be performed in accordance with applicable sections of part 91 of this chapter.
	www.piperowner.com /maintenance.htm (869 words)

	Looking for Fleet Management System? Work Order Software
		PMXpert Maintenance Software interactive online tour will demonstrate how to generate scheduled emergency and work orders, view cost entries and reviews, and track the service history on equipment.
		PMXpert maintenance software is known for its simplicity, effectiveness and first-rate customer service.
		Read Maintenance Software Testimonials to learn why our clients are so satisfied with our services.
	www.pmxpert.com (252 words)

	Preventive Maintenance Software: Custom-Designed PM Systems
		Preventive Maintenance Management Software Definition: Computer software system managing a set of standard procedures devised to prevent the malfunction of a piece of equipment.
		Preventative maintenance is accomplished by a defined set of predictive or absolute measurements.
		Preventive maintenance equipment meter readings can be entered one at a time in the field by dropdown list selection or by barcode scanning.
	www.blueclaw-db.com /preventive_maintenance_software.htm (493 words)

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