![]() Other types of training include preventive maintenance (58%) and lubrication (57%). Training: Maintenance teams are mostly trained on safety (84%) and basic electrical (68%) and mechanical skills (67%).Half of facilities plan to upgrade their equipment and improve/increase training. Unscheduled downtime: The leading cause of unscheduled downtime within respondents’ facilities remains aging equipment (44%), followed by operator error (16%) and lack of time (15%).Attention to systems: Rotating equipment (motors, power transmission, etc.) and plant automation systems are the two areas where facilities dedicate the most maintenance support, followed by fluid power systems, internal electrical distribution systems, and material handling equipment. ![]() The average facility spends 19 hours each week on schedule maintenance. Scheduled maintenance: Fifty-two percent of facilities allocate up to 10% of their annual operating costs to maintenance processes 35% devote more than 10% of this budget on maintenance.Maintenance strategies: Eight in 10 manufacturing facilities follow a preventive maintenance strategy 57% use a run-to-failure method and 51% practice a predictive maintenance (PdM) approach using analytical tools. ![]() ![]() Respondents to the Plant Engineering 2018 Maintenance Study identified seven important, high-level findings impacting the manufacturing industries today: ![]()
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