TRSA recently held a webinar titled “Developing a Sustainable Preventive Maintenance Program.” Linen, uniform and facility services industry veteran Frank Gundrum of Gundrum Consulting LLC, Franklin, IN, hosted the hour-long presentation.

Preventive and predictive maintenance are important elements in keeping your machinery running at peak efficiency. The focus of preventive maintenance is to continuously service and maintain the equipment and facilities, thereby keeping all units in satisfactory operating condition by inspection, detection and correction before failures occur or problems develop that can lead to costly equipment downtime. Predictive-maintenance techniques are used to help determine the condition of in-service equipment so ...