Extend Preventive Maintenance intervals and increase uptime
Downtime is a serious threat to any car manufacturing plant. One of the most dreaded scenarios within a car manufacturing plant is that if one area backs up, it can have a snowball effect on other areas waiting for completion of prior processes to deliver parts to them.
In order to prevent down-time PM intervals are maintained very short. It's cheaper to plan and execute more PM and replace parts far before they break than having the production line stop due to equipment failure. But the cost of this preventive regime is high.
