Meter Based Maintenance

Meter Based Maintenance Scheduling – Perhaps the most accurate way to schedule predefined inspections, lubrication, lubricant changes, adjustments and T.C.C. (time compliant change), with respect to wear components.

Meter based scheduling unlike calendar based is Preventive Maintenance scheduling based upon the result of a trigger. The trigger could be one of the following:

• Hour meter

• Odometer

• Cycle counter
   

SOMAX considers meter maintenance as preventive or predictive, meaning it can be used with both preventive maintenance or predictive maintenance strategies. It is however more complex and requires an additional step or action reading the meter to be completed prior to the maintenance system automatically generating a Preventive Maintenance Work Order. 

By using a Mobile device, the meter reading can be completed using Q/R code, which identifies the meter, the user types in the meter reading and moves to the next location.

In the SOMAX system, the user does not need to directly schedule every Meter based PM job. The user during the system setup simply determines a frequency based upon the manufacturer’s recommended hours, or other set point, and when the set point or frequency is reached SOMAX generates the necessary tasks, lubrications and inspections that have been defined by the user, builds the necessary Preventive Maintenance work order, assigns the work order to the predefined technician, including all attachments, and generates the work order automatically to the work order table.

Advantages:

• Further simplifies the scheduling and planning as the system does all the scheduling, and all tasks and information about the PM transfers to the new work orders.

• Costs are reduced as the maintenance is only requested based on the actual run time hours, miles driven or some other parameter, eliminating the wasted work orders for machines not operating

• There are no initial startup costs for instrumentation, IoT devices, networking or PLC driven supervision of equipment.

Disadvantages:

• Less reliable than PLC or IoT fault or condition reporting.

• Additional labor costs for reading meters - however, these additional costs are typically offset by lower labor costs due to eliminated equipment downtime and emergency unplanned repairs