ABSTRACT
Facilities maintenance for years was normally emergency maintenance such as a break in the water line, electricity outage in the building, a leak in the roof, or a broken window. Those examples came to be called breakdown or reactive maintenance. Predictive maintenance was valued in the manufacturing facilities in that machine efficiency and personnel productivity benefitted from the new predictive capability. In 1978, total productive maintenance, invented by the Japanese as part of their total quality improvement effort, was introduced by Toyota in a widely acclaimed book on Toyota’s achievements in quality improvement. Energy centered maintenance is defined as a continuous improvement maintenance regime that combines the physical preventive and predictive maintenance tasks with energy-related maintenance tasks that maintain the operational parameters of the equipment and its efficiency. The detection of potential failures in the maintenance strategy yields an important means of improving the overall maintenance program.
