{"id":4977,"date":"2022-01-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirezdemo.xyz\/breakdown-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T00:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T04:33:47","slug":"breakdown-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eptura.com\/discover-more\/blog\/breakdown-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is breakdown maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In some ways, breakdown maintenance is one of the purest forms of maintenance: something breaks, so you fix it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But for all its simplicity, it can lead you to complex combinations of costly, dangerous downtime. Like every tool in your toolbox, you need to know how, where, and when to use it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><!--more--><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is breakdown maintenance?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The definition is right there in the name: breakdown maintenance is the maintenance your team does when something breaks down. You can also call it reactive maintenance, which makes sense because&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;the opposite of proactive. Instead of the maintenance department setting up and following a <a href=\"https:\/\/managerplus.iofficecorp.com\/blog\/preventive-maintenance-examples\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preventive maintenance program<\/a> with inspections and tasks to find and fix small issues, with reactive maintenance, you wait for the problems to come to you.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you needed old proverbs to explain and support breakdown maintenance, you could use &#8220;Don&#8217;t break what&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;broke&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t go looking for trouble.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In some specific, limited situations,&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;great advice. But in other places,&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;terrible.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What are the types of breakdown maintenance?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There are two broad categories, run-to-failure&nbsp;and emergency.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Run-to-failure<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It might feel strange to have a maintenance strategy where the whole idea is letting things run until they break, but that&#8217;s exactly how <a href=\"\/blog\/run-to-failure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run-to-failure maintenance<\/a> earned&nbsp;its&nbsp;name. Let certain things run until they fail.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The trick is getting the right balance between what you know and what you&nbsp;don&#8217;t. So, you know that assets, equipment, and parts all eventually fail. And you know what&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;got planned for when they fail. What parts you need to get things back up and running, the steps the team needs to take to make it happen, and, in some cases, who on the team can do the work.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For example, you buy and screw in a new light bulb. You know that eventually all light bulbs burn out, so you keep a bunch of fresh ones sitting in inventory. When it burns out, the team knows how to replace it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The only thing you&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;know ahead of time is when the breakdowns happen. Everything else? You expect it and have a plan in place.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The other trick is knowing when to use run-to-failure maintenance. It only really works for assets, equipment, and parts that are non-critical, easily fixed or replaced, not easily&nbsp;inspected&nbsp;or&nbsp;maintained, and cheap to carry in stock.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emergency<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With run-to-failure, you arrive at every breakdown already knowing what you need to do. And in most cases, you should already have spare parts and materials sitting in inventory.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But with emergency breakdown maintenance, everything is more unexpected. You&nbsp;didn&#8217;t&nbsp;expect the asset to break down, so you obviously&nbsp;didn&#8217;t&nbsp;have any idea of when it was going to breakdown. Often, maintenance professionals talk about this sort of reactive, emergency maintenance as &#8220;putting out fires.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;a perfect metaphor. With preventive maintenance, your team has a system for finding signs of trouble, &#8220;smoke,&#8221; long before it has a chance&nbsp;of becoming&nbsp;a raging fire.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But it can also be more than a metaphor. There are a lot of assets and equipment that&nbsp;literally catch&nbsp;fire once they slid far enough down the <a href=\"\/blog\/pf-curve\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">P-F curve<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What are the advantages and disadvantages of breakdown maintenance?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This section could use a better title. It should be &#8220;What are the advantages of run-to-failure and what are the disadvantages of emergency maintenance?&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With run-to-failure breakdown maintenance, you save money. First,&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;never throwing out any value trapped inside parts. For example, if&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;replacing conveyor belts based on time, you might be getting rid of them too early. If you had waited until they broke, there might have been another month of useful life in them. With the right type of breakdown maintenance, you never have to worry about pulling parts before they reach the absolute end of their useful lives. In fact,&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;only&nbsp;pulling&nbsp;them out when&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;good and truly dead.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You also save money because you never waste time trying to inspect and repair things you should just be throwing out. Is there a machine that can test and fix light bulbs? There could be. Should you waste your time and money getting it?&nbsp;There&#8217;s&nbsp;no way.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When looking at the disadvantages of breakdown maintenance, you only need to ask yourself, &#8220;What&#8217;s bad about being unprepared?&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The answer is &#8220;everything.&#8221; When an asset breaks down, the maintenance team needs to jump into action, which can mean dropping scheduled work, pushing everything back. Now not only are the people who need that asset behind schedule, so is the maintenance team. From there, the team might need to bring in specific parts and materials, which can cost a lot of money. They might even have to bring in third-party vendors, and even if they&nbsp;don&#8217;t, just the in-house overtime hours can quickly add up. When the asset is back online, for example in a manufacturing plant, the managers might have to run extra shifts to get back on target.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">How does a CMMS help with breakdown maintenance?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It helps by giving you the combination of capabilities you need to get the job done. Because all your data lives inside a central database, where everyone can instantly access it, you can efficiently share in real time, keeping everyone inside the loop and the team on top of trouble.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For run-to-failure, the right computerized maintenance management system gives you inventory control and the ability to write, save, and then quickly share work orders for your most common repairs and replacements.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For emergency breakdown maintenance, the focus is on creating clear channels of communication between you and the team. When a critical asset goes offline, you need instant access to the schedule so you can move work orders up or down the priority list. And once you have that sorted, you need strong, two-way communication between you and your techs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Next steps<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">Eptura&#8217;s here to help you get the solution that works best for you, from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hippocmms.iofficecorp.com\/contact-us\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">answering your questions<\/a>&nbsp;about everything related to maintenance to helping you&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hippocmms.iofficecorp.com\/cmms-software-demo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book a live software demo<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Summary<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Although breakdown maintenance is a simple concept, something breaks so you fix it, it can lead to complicated, costly problems. There are two kinds of breakdown maintenance, run-to-failure&nbsp;and emergency. For the first type, you already expect the failure to happen&nbsp;and&nbsp;already know what the team should do to repair or replace the part. The advantage is that you never have to worry about replacing something too soon. You also save money because&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;not wasting anyone&#8217;s time inspecting or repairing things that they can easily throw out and replace. You&nbsp;must&nbsp;be careful, though, because it only works for things that are non-critical, easy to replace, hard to&nbsp;maintain, and cheap to carry in inventory. But for the second type of breakdown maintenance, emergency,&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;always wasting money. Because&nbsp;you&#8217;re&nbsp;not&nbsp;prepared for the breakdown, the team&nbsp;must&nbsp;reprioritize their existing work, pushing everyone behind. Also,&nbsp;there&#8217;s&nbsp;a good chance you need to spend a lot on rush deliveries for parts.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But&nbsp;in&nbsp;both cases, <a href=\"\/solutions\/cmms-software\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a good CMMS<\/a> makes everything easier, cheaper. With&nbsp;its&nbsp;built-in inventory control features and work order templates, you can ensure the team has what it needs when&nbsp;there&#8217;s&nbsp;a breakdown. And for emergencies, the software makes it much easier to reprioritize resources and communicate quickly with the team. 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