Design-out Maintenance (DOM)

By contrast with the preceding policies, which aim to minimise the effect of failure, the strategy of this maintenance concentrates on the updating function of maintenance. Clearly this requires engineering action, but it is often the maintenance responsibility. This is usually a policy for areas of high maintenance cost due to poor design or equipment is out of its design specifications.

An appropriate choice of tribological materials might eliminate the need for subsequent lubrication frequencies. Thus this can be regarded as the research and development activity of PEM to increase the productivity or ease of operation or reducing the time of operation by changing or modifying the designs. In few industries this activity is performed by the R&D department but it is always advisable to assign this to PED or at least to a committee formed by the members from PED, R&D and Production.