Improving Maintenance

This paper discribes how implementing a system of scheduled mechanical maintenance for a production operation is not ground breaking in terms of maintenance improvement, just logical. The aim of this process was to move from an informal planned maintenance scenario to a formal predictive maintenance scenario. This  aper presents the lessons learnt during implementation of mechanical maintenance schedules for fixed plant at two operations, Howick Coal Preparation Plant and Newdell Coal Preparation Plant within the same organisation, Howick Coal.

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