Types of Maintenance.
Maintenance can be classified as Follows:
1- Corrective Maintenance (seeks to minimize it).
2- Preventive Maintenance, STIs in three forms: Timed, Predictive and Casual.
Preventive Maintenance.
IMELEC (www.imelec.com.uy) implements preventive maintenance to clients companies in Its Plan That AIMS at the conservation of the equipment, machinery or installations. It Involves conducting inspections and actions That Provide for future damage of Means of Ensuring the continuity and reliability of the production activity of the company. Preventive maintenance is made by IMELEC Implemented That in equipment and facilities are in use, As opposed to corrective maintenance, That It Takes place When machinery or installations flaws Have That Make them partially or completely inoperative.
The purpose of all maintenance must be the avoid or minimize the impact Caused by the damage of function or damage occurred in the equipment or facilities, taking care to Prevent These events so That They Will not occur.
When it comes to Implementing the process of preventative maintenance, IMELEC Takes into account the Recommendations of the manufacturers of the equipment, the regulations for each type of installation and the knowledge accumulated Through experience in the maintenance of assets like.
Criteria for defining the type of preventive maintenance.
Scheduled maintenance. That made arecyclically Revisions are scheduled at predetermined time periods or ACCORDING TO the hours of operation for each team or element of the installation.
Predictive maintenance. Track of the performance of the equipment or installation, by carrying out periodic checks for Determining the maximum period of use without Having to make a repair is Keeps.
Occasional maintenance. This type of maintenance is used to perform the action on The Times in Which the system is inoperative or computers are not used to avoidhindering production Being Processes or the standard operational companies.
Why is Necessary preventative maintenance in business?
Through the implementation of an Appropriate plan of preventive maintenance tool companies merge onto May That will prolong the useful life buildings, furniture, equipment, machinery and facilities, preventative Risks to people, the deterioration of Their assets and avoid the stoppage of the work activity of the company due to unwanted events. Its main objective is to Implement in a planned way the inspection and diagnosis of the State of the equipment and facilities to perform the Necessary actions in time periods Those That Do not Affect Normal the operational work in the company, THUS Avoiding timeless Which cause emergency work significant economic damage.
That, According to statistical indices are handled, a scheduled maintenance can Increase the production of companies 30%, Achieving a 35% reduction in maintenance costs and Extending the useful life of the facilities and equipment by 55%.
The vanguard companies Understand the fact That Having a preventative maintenance is critical of Importance in Achieving an uninterrupted operating activities, Regardless of the size of the company.
The strategy of "spend on maintenance Only When breaks what is working" is Considered obsolete nowadays.
Currently, if you want to Maintain a continuity in production, That Should be aware if you wait Until the failure to perform the action of corrective maintenance, run the risk, in the best of cases, engage in excessively high costs and in the MOST critical cases, it is be exposed to losses in production Processes, decay of quality, downtime and loss of income.
Uruguay maintenance companies: - Integral Maintenance is the best way to achieve continuous upgrading and increasing the useful life of the property and its facilities. Contact +598 22000539.
