Nearly all maintenance advice typically is aimed at one type of part or one specific procedure. Unfortunately, this results in many maintenance operations “not being able to see the forest through the trees.” Effective maintenance is more of a culture within the company than a process or cost center on the balance sheet. Everybody from the driver to the mechanic to the company owner needs to consider maintenance as an essential part of the job.
Rather than looking at downtime, it’s better to look at maintenance effectiveness in terms of equipment availability.