A Condition-based Maintenance program or CBM is about doing the right maintenance at the right time. This approach is based on predictive maintenance and equipment condition monitoring that provides an early warning of deteriorating conditions for your revenue-producing equipment. By taking a proactive approach to asset management, your maintenance and operations teams can make better decisions to improve your financial bottom line.
Objectives
- Achieve maximum reliability, performance, and safety of the equipment
- Restore equipment to required levels of performance when deterioration occurs (but before failure)
- Collect the data (during the life of the equipment) to change the design of the equipment in order to improve its reliability
- Accomplish the above with minimal lifecycle costs
Risk Mitigation
- Mitigate the risk of reduced maintenance budgets based on material history metrics
- Maintenance actions extended or eliminated can still be managed on an as required basis through condition monitoring
- Reducing the risk of unplanned failures
Failures Identified by CBM
- An unsatisfactory condition (may be a catastrophic shut down or an out of specification condition, such as a quality defect)
- A condition in which the equipment does not meet a certain performance standard
- A physical change in the equipment indicating that a failure is imminen
