Efficiency Bulletins

EB 16-16: High-Cost, Noncritical Preventive Maintenance Reduction

There are large numbers of high-cost, high-frequency and resource-intensive preventive maintenance (PMs) performed on noncritical equipment without a return value in equipment reliability. Identifying the highest cost noncritical PMs and then challenging the value to reliability of those PMs will result in content optimization, a reduction in PM frequency or reclassification as run-to-maintenance. Targeting the highest cost noncritical PMs provides immediate opportunity for real annualized operations and maintenance cost savings.