Forecasting and Anticipation of Maintenance Work

The most important function of maintenance planning is forecasting or anticipation of future work. This can be done by information provided by the following sources :

• Instructions and guidance given by manufacturer of the machines
• technical knowledge of the maintenance and production personnel
• knowledge of the degree of the utilisation of machine
• record of the behaviour of the machine and of work done on it
• complains and requests from production personnel on basis of difficulties experienced by them while operating the machine Maintenance Concepts
• examination of the state of various parts of the machine during their life span.