Why Proactive Maintenance Beats Reactive Every Time

Fail to plan is a plan to fail

What is the difference between proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance and why does it matter? Unexpected downtime is the great killer. It prevents you from meeting your goals. It prevents your factory from producing your products and impacts profit. A cooling tower or chiller breakdown means your hotel, conference center, or arena will likely have to compensate your guests for the poor experience of being trapped in a hot box.

Winter Cooling Tower PMs

Spring Cleaning Done Early

Not all cleaning should be done in the spring. Wintertime is the perfect time. Your cooling systems will be shut down for several months and will need some tender love and care if you want to prevent breakdowns during their peak run times. Get ahead with a few key procedures.

Wintertime means less stress on your cooling towers. You are likely running fewer chillers, a lower speed on its VFD or possibly running on a chill plate. This lack of a load on your cooling tower(s) means either entire towers are offline or maybe only a few cells in the tower are currently active. This is the time to do a deep clean on your offline towers.

Stop Pencil Whipping PMs

Your lies screw up metrics

Close all work orders by the end of the shift! We've all heard this line. Managers always talk about metrics and how we need every PM completed no matter what. In theory, it makes sense. We need to complete these jobs to keep the equipment running as efficiently as possible. If the work is done, great no problem. When we complete work orders for the sake of completion, problems start to arise.

How to Justify Money on PMs

It's Costs More to Not Spend Money

Maintenance departments are often the first to have their budgets slashed or be denied approval for increased funding. This is often on account of the people in charge of finances up the chain of command being quite unaware of how much money is actually being saved by a properly maintained facility. The term no news is good news is very true when it comes to maintaining your facility.