In this tech demo you’ll learn about Planon Connect for Building Advisor, which is an integration between Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure™ Building Advisor and Planon’s IWMS.
Planned Preventative Maintenance
What is planned preventative maintenance? Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) allows you to substantially reduce reactive maintenance and retain your buildings and assets in the desired or needed quality. Planned preventative maintenance is either time-based or condition monitored. Here we explore time-based maintenance vs condition-based maintenance.
Let’s explain time-based preventative maintenance. It is based on a fixed execution frequency of activities that generates a calendar schedule. A time-based maintenance schedule for an asset, equipment or building fabric is based on a library with maintenance activities and its pre-set frequency of execution for that asset. These frequencies can be based on warranties, supplier instructions, legislation or experience. An example of time-based maintenance is the yearly inspection of an air-conditioning unit, its three yearly filters cleaning and its six yearly filter replacement. Still time-based maintenance might be too late and causing reactive maintenance as the real condition of the asset is not taken into account. Or even too early or not necessary as it might be that the assets’ condition is better than expected.
Condition monitored preventative maintenance is a maintenance method aimed at predicting when an asset failure might occur and to prevent occurrence of that failure by performing the right maintenance. Condition monitored maintenance applies to assets that can communicate their actual status in real-time to your maintenance system (IWMS, CAFM, CMMS) where threshold values and pre-set parameters forecast the type and timing of maintenance. This monitoring allows a just-in-time maintenance that minimises maintenance costs and prevents asset failure and associated reactive maintenance efforts. An example of condition monitored maintenance is a pre-set threshold for your heating installation. When the temperature of the installation exceeds this threshold value, a preventative maintenance activity is generated to avoid failure. Or when operating hours exceed a pre-set value, the next maintenance activity is automatically scheduled at the right time.