Representative Engagement Scenario
Heavy manufacturing · Western Canada
Rebuilding a preventive-maintenance program for a multi-crane fleet
A multi-line plant runs a fleet of overhead cranes on inconsistent maintenance records and intervals that were never matched to actual duty cycle.
Discipline:Preventive Maintenance Program Development
Typical situation
The preventive-maintenance program has grown by accretion — a mix of manufacturer manuals, tribal knowledge and a service contractor's default cadence. Records sit in more than one system, and no single document explains why each crane is serviced at the interval it is.
Common risk
Intervals that do not reflect real duty cycle can leave heavily used cranes under-maintained and lightly used cranes over-serviced. Inconsistent records also make the program difficult to defend during an insurance survey or a regulatory review, and deficiencies can stay open with no clear owner.
How CAG would approach it
- Confirm the service class of every crane against observed duty cycle rather than badge data.
- Reconcile manufacturer maintenance intervals against CSA B167 and the assigned CMAA class.
- Rewrite maintenance procedures so each task has measurable pass/fail acceptance criteria.
- Define one deficiency-tracking workflow — severity, owner, due date and closure evidence.
- Hand the program to internal reliability staff with the documentation needed to run it.
Potential client benefit
A single documented maintenance program the owner can explain, audit and maintain internally — with maintenance effort directed at the cranes and components that carry the most risk.
Representative Engagement Scenario — This example illustrates a typical type of assignment rather than one specific project. It is not a record of a single client engagement and contains no client, facility or manufacturer information.
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