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e) If the performance of scheduled predictive maintenance has the potential

of exceeding the grace period, the operations manager and the

maintenance manager, or designees, shall be informed and be directly

involved in the decision process.

f) Only operating equipment or equipment in standby should be placed in

predictive maintenance monitoring. Such monitoring should be

rescheduled at a time consistent with normal plant and equipment

operations.

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a) Failures of equipment included in the predictive maintenance program

should have detailed root cause investigations to determine why the

program did not detect degradation before the failures occurred.

b) All personnel should be alert for possible inputs to the predictive

maintenance program that may be beneficial in improving plant

reliability and performance. These comments may result from work

performed by corrective maintenance or modification activities. Inputs

should be forwarded to the predictive maintenance coordinator.

c) Proposed additions or modifications to the predictive maintenance

program should be evaluated for applicability, potential benefit, and

cost-effectiveness.

d) Techniques proposed for use within the predictive maintenance

program should be evaluated for applicability, potential benefit, and

cost-effectiveness. Appendix I provides an example form for evaluating

proposed predictive maintenance program changes.

e) Periodic summary reports (e.g., monthly) to operations and

maintenance management describing the current status of the

predictive maintenance program and summarizing problems recently

identified or corrected should be provided by the predictive

maintenance coordinator. This report is useful for management to

assess program effectiveness.