Jul 18, 2025

Preventive maintenance and inservice inspection

Preventive maintenance (PM), inservice inspection (ISI), calibration,  periodical load or pressure tests, electrical continuity and earth resistance checks, carrying out repairs on identified problems are generally delayed or ignored in many industrial facilities. 

Either the systems are not released for checks or concerned agencies are not bothered. Facilities will be operated without checks, tests, repairs.

They may think that, nothing will happen and they can continue without checks or tests.

But, such checks help in knowing the integrity of the systems,  functionality as per design and operational requirements,  and thus ensure safety of persons,  protection of environment and add to the profitability. 

Occurrence of an event or incident can lead to catastrophic consequences and closure.

This realization should occur to everyone.  It is true even in our day-to-day lives outside industrial organizations also.