This website discusses topics related to CM/PM/RCM/ and relevant techniques for the same. In spite of all the hue and cry to avoid breakdown maintenance, I think , still a lot of maintenance manhour is spent on breakdown maintenance. Why we can not start a separate posting board dedicated to breakdown maintenance. I believe, breakdown maintenance only has provided insight for CM/RCM or any such thing to avoid such failures and getting an idea of failing things will lead us to a successfully avoid such things.
a thought for consideration pl.
Regards.
Akhtar

AKHTAR

I agree that it is important to focus on reducing the amount of breakdown maintenance that is done and i think the way to do it is to ensure you have reliability improvement processes in place that have a strong focus on identifying and adressing the root cause of breakdowns.some of the root causes ( approx 25%) will be addressed by improving the equipment maintenance strategy others ( approx 25%) will be addressed by redesigning the equipment to improve its inherent reliability and the remaining 50% of the root causes are addressed by changing operator practices to ensure the equipment is operated reliably

It is important that you develop a work culture that believes that breakdowns are preventable and understand the significant benefits associated with eliminating them.

First, where does or for which equipment does breakdown maintenance or run to failure strategy is applicable and economically viable option to do so?

I think it better for newbie in maintenance field. My opinion about breakdown, if equipment breakdown it might be to restore back as soon as possible in the system by maintenance. But equipment have chance to failue as the same cause if reliability engineer's do not something. So, reliability engineer's must do something and economically concern as Josh saided.

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Originally posted by AromaticsThailand:
I think it better for newbie in maintenance field. My opinion about breakdown, if equipment breakdown it might be to restore back as soon as possible in the system by maintenance. But equipment have chance to failue as the same cause if reliability engineer's do not something. So, reliability engineer's must do something and economically concern as Josh saided.

I think it would also be useful as part of your site breakdown strategy that you have a management policy that every equipment breakdown that impacts on production is investigated using a Root Cause Analysis process that not only identifies corrective actions to get you back to where you were before the breakdown occurred , but also preventive actions that will prevent the breakdown or similar types of breakdowns from happening in the future