One strategy is not enough – why maintenance needs to be approached in a more differentiated way
Choosing the right maintenance strategy is crucial for plant availability, operational safety and cost-effectiveness. However, in practice, there is no single correct strategy – rather, it depends on the specific application: criticality, complexity, redundancy, safety requirements and legal regulations determine which approach makes sense.
Therefore:
- Correktive where failures are less critical or replacements are quickly available.
- Preventive for systems with known maintenance cycles and plannable downtimes.
- Condition-based when sensors or visual inspections allow changes to be detected early.
- Predictive when patterns in data allow conclusions to be drawn about impending failures.
Examples of this are:
- A defective hall lighting system is often simply replaced → corrective.
- A pump with a prescribed maintenance interval → preventive.
- A motor with temperature and vibration sensors → condition-based.
- A production line with AI-supported anomaly detection → predictive.
But which strategy is right for which plant, which process, which budget?
This is exactly where our work at SPIE RODIAS comes in. We support you every step of the way:
- Analysis phase: evaluation of your plant structure, criticality classification and strategy assessment
- Methodological consulting: Derivation of sensible strategies for each asset type or class, taking into account technical, organisational and economic factors
- System integration: Implementation of your strategy with powerful systems such as IBM Maximo, supplemented by our scalable, customisable Insight Control Panel
- Operational empowerment: Mobile support through Insight Mobile, so that measures take effect where they are needed: directly at the plant
Our claim: We bring strategy, technology and practice together – so that maintenance not only works, but also delivers real added value.
The topic of maintenance strategies will also be discussed in detail at our in-house exhibition on 24 and 25 September in Weinheim. If you are interested, you can register by sending an email to: sales@rodias.de
