Types of maintenance poster

No single type of maintenance suits every machine. Breakdown maintenance (run to failure) is fine for cheap, harmless failures; time-based maintenance suits wear that is predictable; condition-based maintenance acts on a measured warning sign; autonomous maintenance keeps basic conditions every day; and improvement removes the weak point for good. This poster shows the five, with when to use each, so a team can pick the right mix for each machine.

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The words on the poster

Which maintenance, when?

Five ways to look after a machine. Most need a mix.

Breakdown Fix it when it fails. When a failure is cheap, safe and quick to fix.
Time-based Service or replace at set hours, cycles or dates. When wear is predictable.
Condition-based Measure vibration, heat or oil; act on a change. When a warning sign comes before failure.
Autonomous Operators clean, inspect, lubricate and tighten. Every machine, every day.
Improvement Change the design so the failure cannot happen. When it keeps failing the same way.

Types after EN 13306:2017 (maintenance terminology) and TPM practice.

On the floor

How to use it

Putting the Types of maintenance poster to work

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Put it in the maintenance office and the planning room.
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Take your most critical machines and decide which type fits each main failure.
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Use it to explain to production why a part is replaced before it fails, or left to fail.
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Pair it with the free equipment criticality analysis and condition monitoring route sheet.

Where the poster goes and how to teach with it, in the order to try them.

Which size to print

24 x 36 in or A2: a main wall or team board, read from a few metres away.
18 x 24 in or A3: a station or notice board. The A3 file also fits 11 x 17 in paper.
Letter or A4: a clipboard, binder or handout, on any office printer.

Every PDF is vector, so it stays sharp at full size. Nothing runs to the edge of the page, so no bleed is needed.

Sources and notes

EN 13306:2017, Maintenance: maintenance terminology (corrective, preventive, predetermined and condition-based maintenance, and improvement).
Seiichi Nakajima, Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance (Productivity Press, 1988).