Maintenance teams are under more pressure than ever before. Faster new product push-to-market, skeletal staffing, older equipment, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and external mandates like GFSI and FSSC 22000 translate into an environment where the bottom line is this—equipment must be more reliable than ever, operating at ever more challenging levels of efficiency and accuracy at the lowest minimal cost.
However, these challenges can be met with a new way of looking at maintenance that represents advances on the old methods of run-to-failure and preventive maintenance (PM). It is called predictive maintenance (PdM), and today’s consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers are considering it as a way to significantly cut costs and realize efficiencies like never before.