5/16/07-When to Schedule Preventive Maintenance Work?

Did you ever try to find the time to schedule preventive maintenance on your equipment, and there WAS NO TIME to do it? You know what I'm talking about. You have ALL those other things going on, right? You don't have time to prevent failures because you are busy fixing the failures you already HAVE.

At least that is what you keep telling your scheduler when he or she calls to tell you that your backlog of PM work orders now needs a system of its own in order to be kept organized. What do you do about it? Well, you refer to Step 12 of "The Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways to Wreck Your Maintenance Program", of course.

Take a few minutes to change your behavior, and fix the problem. Somebody has to have the courage to shut off the failures at the source, and it might as well be you. Stop fighting fires today!

Read Step 12: Walk Away from the Challenge to Do it Right