Lubrication requires constant attention. Vigilance is perhaps a better word. It’s easy to forget the things we are not motivated to do. Yet, rarely do we forget those activities we are passionate about and desire to do. We are all driven by animal instincts to seek out the things that we enjoy or which give us a gratifying reward.

Because it’s hard to find happiness in performing most routine maintenance tasks, it’s not uncommon for many of them to become periodically forgotten or perpetually postponed. Much of this is actually “conscious forgetfulness”, similar to procrastinating. Why does this happen? It is most likely due to a lack of rigor which is due to a lack of structure, measurement and incentive.

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Indeed it’s hard to justify spending time and money on things that aren’t yet broken when your maintenance staff is hog-tied, fixing the things that have broken. When breakdowns occur… well, you know the drill… not much else gets done until things are up and running again.

Let’s face it, breakdown maintenance is just plain unruly. It’s defiant, won’t conform to a schedule, and belies the budget. Breakdown maintenance is destructive and wasteful. It highjacks precious manpower and robs resource-limited organizations of operating capital. And worst of all, it has an obscene sense of timing.

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The field of maintenance technology is going through a revolution of change. Gone are the days when a machine had a predictable service life, after which it was replaced, continuing the cycle. Today machinery and equipment can be maintained to achieve useful operating lives many times that attainable just a few years ago. It is no longer a truism that all machines are built to fail. Why? Because there is an increasing understanding of the causes of failure, and, armed with this information, it is possible to prevent the initiation of failure proactively. The field of proactive maintenance targets this very objective.

When maintenance is performed in response to failure it is called breakdown maintenance. When maintenance is performed according to a schedule it is called preventive maintenance. When maintenance is performed in response to a detected impending failure it is called predictive maintenance. When maintenance is performed in response to detected conditions that avoid the onset of failure (by correcting the conditions) it is called proactive maintenance.

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