What you will learn
Choose between corrective, preventive and condition-based work; rank equipment criticality; write useful work orders; interpret core reliability indicators.
Course syllabus
- 1. Maintenance strategies
Corrective, preventive and condition-based maintenance
- 2. Criticality and failure modes
Focus effort where failure matters most
- 3. Execution and learning
Work orders, backlog and reliability indicators
Free lesson · 17m
Corrective, preventive and condition-based maintenance
Run-to-failure is sensible for a low-cost non-critical item with a safe, visible failure. Preventive maintenance replaces or services on time or usage. Condition-based maintenance acts on measured deterioration such as vibration, temperature, oil condition or electrical signature.
The best strategy depends on consequence and failure behaviour, not fashion. A frequent calendar task can introduce defects if it opens equipment that was healthy. Match the task to a known failure mode and review whether it actually detects or prevents that mode.
Strategy follows consequence and failure behaviour; condition monitoring needs a detectable degradation pattern; every task should address a failure mode.