Preventive Maintenance Work Order Optimization

Abstract

In the bio-pharmaceutical industry, maintenance is required to ensure equipment functions properly. Maintenance can be defined as activities performed on an equipment to ensure it functions with-in specification and established functionality; whereas, preventive maintenance is conducting these activities preemptively to reduce breakage. Increases in the number of preventive maintenance work performed on equipment have led to increases in the indirect maintenance cost prompting the maintenance department of a bio-pharmaceutical company to request an evaluation of the program. An analysis of the maintenance data led to the conclusion that applying preventive maintenance streamlining and sequencing would reduce the number of yearly work orders completed and reviewed by technician and supervisor. Furthermore, the maintenance department should promote an evaluation to determine if predictive maintenance would further improve the program. Key Terms ⎯ Preventive Maintenance, Work Order Optimization, Scheduling.