Administrative controls are essential and include training, safe operating procedures, preventative maintenance schedules on machines and equipment, and effective plans for system failure.
Fuel programs also often provide preventative maintenance scheduling and fleet cycling, which can help to control fleet costs over the longer term.
FSA has some basic requirements for the maintenance program, which includes regularly scheduled functional testing, and regularly scheduled preventative maintenance, filters, batteries, calibration, and lubrication.
Early warnings could be used to schedule preventative maintenance activities.
To maximize vehicle availability, the program emphasizes scheduled preventative maintenance.
The need for such tools becomes more evident as the number of machines and installations grows, since their maintenance, particularly preventative maintenance, must be planned and scheduled.
These four maintenance strategies include: i) time-based preventative maintenance using visual inspection; ii) scheduled condition-based maintenance (CBM); iii) on-line/continuous CBM; and iv) run-to-failure corrective maintenance strategy.
The lifetime of machinery may be enhanced by limiting the the number of times it enters a state of disrepair, while on-going costs may be reduced by using predictive and preventative maintenance strategies to optimise the scheduling of maintenance activities.
Automated systems have the potential to eliminate manual tasks (e.g., safety and inspection documents, warranties) and provide the ability for more cost-effective preventative maintenance (e.g. real-time scheduling, maintenance histories) (Thomas et al. 2012).
It also provides data to enable the scheduling of both rectification and preventative maintenance.
