Benefits of Preventive Maintenance:
- Improves equipment reliability resulting in higher production and product quality
- Increases equipment life due to fewer failures and prevention of excessive damage
- Keeps equipment in good condition increasing resource utilization and efficiency
- Reduces unplanned downtime by resolving problems when they are tiny
- Ensures other upstream and downstream equipment on the assembly lines utilized to their full potential
- Increases productivity, avoids repetitive failures and optimizes labor and operational costs.
- Institutionalize the process thereby ensuring repeatability and consistency
- Increases the overall safety of the equipment