Questions to start a PM and PdM discussion with your staff and managers
- Does top management support the PM and PdM system with their attention, money and authorizations for downtime as required?
- Is involvement in PM/PdM activity considered high status among the workers?
- Is there a trend toward PdM from lower tech human senses inspection?
- When deficiencies are found by inspection are they written up as scheduled work and completed in a reasonable time?
- Do repeated or expensive failures trigger an investigation to find the root cause and correct it?
- Was there an economic analysis of each task list proving ROI (Return on Investment)?
- Is PMO (PM Optimization), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) considered when equipment failure could cause injuries, the equipment is critical or has high downtime costs.
- Are units outside of the PM/PdM system because they are in very bad shape and fixing them up is not worth it?
- Does the actual failure history impact the frequency, depth and items on the task list?
- Did your staff design or modify the design of the task list?
- Are PM personnel consulted when designing new processes, machines or buildings?
- Are PdM and PM workers in training?
Executive Summary
Among the 10 PM and PdM questions, there are questions like; Does top management support the PM and PdM system with their attention, money and authorizations for downtime as required?, When deficiencies are found by inspection are they written up as scheduled work and completed in a reasonable time?, Is PMO (PM Optimization), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) considered when equipment failure could cause injuries, the equipment is critical or has high downtime costs, Are units outside of the PM/PdM system because they are in very bad shape and fixing them up is not worth it?, Does the actual failure history impact the frequency, depth and items on the task list?, Did your staff design or modify the design of the task list?