Preventive Maintenance Tips for Equipment Optimization

June 2022

Preventive Maintenance

Organizations continue to invest in the tools to help them perform routine maintenance to improve equipment performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. This guide clearly explains what preventive maintenance is and how it helps avoid costly breakdowns. In order to keep equipment running at peak performance and avoid unwanted breakdowns, it is important to perform routine maintenance to improve equipment reliability. It is essential to have a maintenance management tool, like CMMS software, to help you schedule and manage your preventive maintenance and monitoring performance. A preventive approach begins with solid school planning steps. This guide explains how to align your maintenance processes with NFPA 70B requirements using CMMS. The following are some important tips to improve preventive maintenance:

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Janet Jaquis is a CMMS software specialist with over 8 years at eWorkOrders, where she develops educational content, technical guides, whitepapers, and implementation resources for maintenance management professionals. Her work covers preventive maintenance, work order management, asset reliability, inventory and spare parts, mobile maintenance, and CMMS implementation across manufacturing, healthcare, government, food and beverage, and facilities operations. Janet's content is grounded in customer testimonials, case studies, industry research, and ongoing engagement with the eWorkOrders product team and customer base. Prior to eWorkOrders, she spent her career at AT&T in enterprise technology, working on the development and launch of AT&T WorldNet — one of the first major commercial internet services — and serving as Product Marketing Manager for AT&T WorldNet and AT&T Satellite Services. She holds a degree in Marketing and completed the full PMP (Project Management Professional) certification program.