When a 100-ton turbine spins at thousands of rotations per minute, safety isn’t just a priority—it’s a necessity.
Rotating equipment is at the heart of countless industrial processes. If gone unchecked, your machinery can pose serious risks to both your employees and your bottom line.
Preventing safety incidents and emergency stoppages starts long before a problem ever occurs. It starts with preventive maintenance performed with safety and diligence.
What is Preventive Maintenance?
Preventive maintenance is a type of proactive equipment maintenance that may be scheduled quarterly, semi-annually or annually. What does preventive maintenance mean for your facility in the long run? It helps identify and address potential problems before they cause shutdowns, resulting in expensive repairs and costly downtime.
Each piece of rotating equipment is unique, but a preventive maintenance program may involve practices like:
- Checking coupling gaps
- Investigating grease bearings
- Replacing oil
- Tightening belts
- Verifying alignment conditions
- And more
Advantages of Preventive Maintenance
By scheduling regular machine preventive maintenance for your rotating equipment, you stay ahead of the curve and avoid emergency work stoppages.
Preventive maintenance can not only help you have better peace of mind, but also provide you with other benefits like:
Cost Savings
Through proactive maintenance, you can avoid expensive emergency repairs and the financial losses associated with downtime.
Extended Equipment Life
Regular maintenance maximizes the lifespan of your most critical pieces of rotating equipment.
Reduced Downtime
Equipment failures that disrupt operations are more easily preventable with regular preventive maintenance.
Safety in Preventive Maintenance
While preventive maintenance protects your rotating equipment and your uptime, its most important role is protecting your people. Well-maintained equipment is less likely to malfunction, reducing the risk of workplace accidents.
At Cornerstone Mechanical, we put safety at the forefront of every job we undertake through:
- Comprehensive training that equips our reliability technicians with the knowledge and skills to perform maintenance safely
- Holding weekly safety meetings to discuss current hazards, recent observations and job-specific safety topics
- Implementing 5S principles to improve organization and hazard awareness across our work areas
- Lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures that ensure machinery is completely de-energized before maintenance begins
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) to safeguard workers from hazards, like flying debris and chemical exposure
- Regular safety audits to identify and address potential risks proactively
- Tracking incidents and near misses to use them as learning opportunities to prevent recurrence
- And more
Our team partners with some of the highest-stakes industries in the nation, and we adhere to the highest safety standards in the industry as a result.
When you partner with Cornerstone Mechanical for preventive maintenance, you’re not just investing in reliable rotating equipment—you’re investing in a safer work environment and long-term operational confidence. Give our team a call at 214-225-7038 to see how machine preventive maintenance can help protect your workforce and your rotating equipment.