Preventive Maintenance
At Western Michigan University, the guiding principle of preventive and planned maintenance is the regular and systematic application of engineering knowledge and maintenance attention to equipment and facilities to ensure the proper functionality and to reduce their rate of deterioration.
In 1997, WMU Facilities Management purchased a computer maintenance management system (TMA Systems) that provided the framework for all maintenance activities, including the generation of planned maintenance work orders.
The result is a proactive rather than a reactive environment, optimizing equipment performance, life and energy reduction.
Through the CMM system, we have identified tagged and entered more than 6,696 pieces of equipment in our database with more than 8,097 maintenance tasks scheduled.
We currently schedule maintenance functions from simple visual inspection to major compressor overhauls. Among other planned maintenance functions that we perform are oil sample analysis for compressors, heat exchanger cleaning, chemical treatment on chilled and hydronic water systems and emergency equipment testing.