A preventive maintenance schedule for fmcg and consumer goods plants is the plan of checks, services and inspections that keeps the plant’s equipment running between breakdowns. High-speed filling, packing and labelling lines. Many small stoppages add up to lost output, so the schedule leans on frequent short checks and on spares for fast-wearing parts.
Below are the equipment types we list for this industry, each with its own preventive maintenance schedule and checklist, and the common utilities every plant has. The tasks and intervals follow common industry practice; the maker’s manual and site safety procedures come first.
Equipment in a fmcg and consumer goods plants preventive maintenance schedule
Food, dairy & beverage
Conveying, bulk handling & dust control
Cranes, lifting & material handling
Process & chemical equipment
Packaging, filling & inspection
Plastics & rubber
Valves, piping & hydraulics
Instruments, automation & laboratory
HVAC & refrigeration
Pumps
Compressors & compressed air
Water & effluent treatment
Pharmaceutical & biotech
Fire protection & safety
Fans, blowers, vacuum & ventilation
Boilers, steam & thermal systems
Heat exchangers, vessels & storage
Textile, paper, garment & printing
Agro, grain & sugar processing
Motors, drives & power transmission
Power generation & backup
Machine tools, metalworking & assembly
Furnaces, foundry & surface treatment
Other equipment
Buildings & facilities
Common plant equipment in fmcg and consumer goods plants
Pumps, compressors, motors, boilers, chillers, air handling units, transformers, generators and conveyors appear in almost every industry. Their schedules:
The full list is on the page of equipment preventive maintenance schedules.
How big is the preventive maintenance schedule for fmcg and consumer goods plants?
For one unit of each of the 105 industry-specific equipment types in our library, the schedule has 647 recurring tasks and about 8,809 hours of work a year. Adding one unit of each of the 62 common equipment types makes it 1014 tasks and about 11,577 hours. A real plant has several units of most of them, which is why the monthly workload needs balancing.
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Pick your equipment in the free generator and download a 12-month schedule as an Excel file, with tasks, intervals and monthly workload hours. For the method, read the guide to the preventive maintenance schedule, and the preventive maintenance checklist.
To run it in software, see maintenance software for fmcg, or the preventive maintenance software module.
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Frequently asked questions
What should a preventive maintenance schedule for fmcg and consumer goods plants include?
The equipment that decides output and safety, the tasks and intervals for each, the time each task takes and who does it, and a record of completion. For this industry the biggest groups of equipment are food, dairy & beverage, conveying, bulk handling & dust control, cranes, lifting & material handling, process & chemical equipment. Add the statutory examinations that apply to your plant.
How many types of equipment does the fmcg and consumer goods plants schedule cover?
Our library lists 105 industry-specific equipment types for fmcg and consumer goods plants and 62 common plant equipment types, each with its own tasks, intervals and times.
Is there a free preventive maintenance schedule generator for fmcg and consumer goods plants?
Yes. The free preventive maintenance schedule generator opens with this industry selected, lets you choose your equipment and quantities, and gives a 12-month schedule as an Excel file.