Predictive Maintenance Inspection Schedules

At last, we get to the part of your maintenance program where I hope you’ll call me – Your  Predictive Maintenance Inspection Schedule.

How often you inspect your equipment should be based on the work you’ve already done in creating your predictive maintenance program. However, keep in mind that as assets age or become heavily loaded, you may need to increase the frequency of your inspections. Don’t forget to conduct a follow-up inspection when repairs or modifications are made!

Skipping an infrared thermal survey can result in unidentified equipment problems that produce their own crises, which further postpones the already-delayed infrared scan. This can put you right back into a reactionary maintenance mode.

Consistent infrared thermographic scans are the only way to make thermography an effective tool in preventing avoidable equipment failures. Of course, we encourage you to start your Infrared survey schedule as soon as your equipment is first commissioned to establish baseline data. However, since we are talking about creating a new predictive or preventative maintenance program, you might use your first survey to create baseline data for your new database tracking system.

Regardless of when your initial survey occurs, a good guideline would be to conduct thermal scans annually. Of course, certain equipment will warrant more frequent surveys while highly reliable electrical components might not need another thermal inspection for as long as three years after your first one-year follow-up.

Because we know that a good maintenance program involves a regular follow-up schedule, we work to develop long-term relationships with our clients. Using our thermographic services ensures consistent results and reassures both your employees and your management that any equipment is in safe working order.

Interested in learning more? Give me a call at 803-328-2889 and let’s talk!


IR Infrared Services provides top quality thermographic service at a competitive price to commercial and residential end users in North Carolina and South Carolina. For more information, visit http://www.irinfraredservices.com// or follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/infraredscans. We are proud to offer the very best thermography services in North and South Carolina!

This article series was developed using ideas from http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2009/124.html?page=full and http://www.myflukestore.com/crm_uploads/part_one_of_a_predictive_maintenace_series.pdf for source material.