Predictive maintenance and preventive maintenance are two of the most common maintenance approaches. Both are aimed at minimizing unplanned downtime but they have totally different approaches to maintenance. Today we will look into Predictive Maintenance and how it is different from Preventive Maintenance.
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What Is Preventive Maintenance
To use a medical analogy, preventive maintenance is like getting a checkup once a year. These checks are performed while operations are normal in order to avoid the need for emergency repairs later on. In the same way that regular checkups may reduce the likelihood of serious health problems later in life, preventative maintenance can keep your assets running smoothly for longer. In addition, your bottom line will improve if you can maintain the assembly lines working smoothly.
Preventive maintenance is difficult since it is difficult to determine whether or not the investment will provide a positive return. Skilled maintenance managers must use their judgment to determine how often and on what machinery preventative maintenance should be performed.
What Is Predictive Maintenance
Although predictive maintenance is comparable to preventative maintenance, this activity needs special present circumstances. In our parallel to human health, this component might be equated with tests or measures advised for a person who is at increased risk for a certain illness owing to inherited or lifestyle reasons. If specialists notice that a specific piece of equipment suddenly operates outside typical boundaries, they activate a predictive maintenance process to simply arrange a repair or avoid future failures.
I’d strongly advocate investing in a computerized maintenance management system, which will offer you the measurements and data necessary to make sensible choices. This investment may avoid superfluous maintenance activities, cut maintenance expenses, build a good overall maintenance program, and monitor the equipment and systems to keep your facility up and running. Just as eating correctly, physical exercise, and wellness examinations all play a part in physical health, both preventive and predictive maintenance has an essential position in a planned facility maintenance program.
Preventive Maintenance VS Predictive Maintenance
Most businesses practice some kind of preventive or predictive maintenance on their industrial equipment, and these methods are considered preferable to the third option, reactive maintenance, which involves fixing a machine only after it has broken down. Comparing preventive maintenance with predictive maintenance, the fundamental distinctions are as follows:
- Routine Maintenance is performed at regular intervals regardless of whether or not it is necessary. The goal of preventive maintenance is to extend the life of a system’s components without considering their current condition.
- Predictive maintenance is carried out on an as-needed basis, using data collected in real time from machines in operation to spot potential problems before they disrupt output. Predictive maintenance allows for repairs to be performed while a machine is running to solve a real issue. A shutdown, if necessary, will be limited in duration and scope.
Preventative maintenance may be less convenient since it reduces total capacity availability, but it’s better than reactive maintenance, where costs and duration are unknown until the issue is discovered and fixed. Here is a more direct head-to-head comparison between the two approaches.
| Preventive Maintenance | Predictive Maintenance |
| It is done to foresee potential breakdowns. | It is carried out to safeguard assets from malfunctioning unexpectedly. |
| This is a routine procedure. | This is also something that is routinely done. |
| Machine downtime is avoided since the work may be done while the asset is still being used in its normal fashion. | In order to do maintenance, it is necessary to reduce the asset’s uptime or the period between when the asset’s principal operations are resumed and when the maintenance is performed. |
| Preventive maintenance is only performed when a problem is discovered.
Even if upcoming breakdowns aren’t spotted, maintenance will still be performed. It’s harder and more involved than routine upkeep.
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The technique is easier and less time-consuming than predictive maintenance.
When compared to preventative maintenance, this strategy saves money since it only involves doing required repairs instead of unnecessary ones.
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| Maintenance actions like this are more expensive than predictive maintenance since they occur more often. | This sort of maintenance is more efficient since it requires inspection and repair to be performed only when absolutely necessary. |
CloudApper CMMS For Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
CloudApper CMMS is one of the most versatile CMMS solutions that can be used for both preventive and predictive maintenance. As the CMMS is developed using a state of the art no-code platform the solution can be bent to meet the needs of any organization. The solution comes with built-in preventive maintenance and it can also be customized for predictive maintenance. The solution is very flexible and fits right into the needs of any organization regardless of the industry. If you want to know how CloudApper CMMS can help you with your Predictive and Preventive Maintenance contact us and we will arrange a FREE DRMO for you.