Equipment Health Assurance
Reduce unplanned downtime by building maintenance strategies around how equipment fails. Allied Reliability helps industrial teams identify defects earlier, improve PM and PdM coverage, and design equipment health programs that support reliability, availability, and cost control.
Prevent Failures Before They Occur
Equipment Health Assurance is a consulting service focused on matching maintenance strategy to asset criticality, known failure modes, and the right level of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring coverage. It helps teams answer two practical questions: how much of the asset base is covered, and how well those standards are applied across facilities.
The result is a more disciplined equipment health program that shifts work away from run-to-failure behavior and toward early defect identification, proactive follow-up work, and continuous improvement.
SERVICES
How We Can Help
Equipment Maintenance Plan Development
Create or improve equipment maintenance plans that assign tasks and technologies to known failure modes.
PM Optimization
Review and improve preventive maintenance tasks so they are failure mode driven and aligned to the required level of rigor.
Predictive Maintenance Sourcing Strategy
Determine where PdM technologies should be used and how coverage should align with criticality and business consequence.
HOW IT WORKS
A Structured Health Assurance Process
Allied Reliability begins by reviewing assets, criticality, failure modes, existing PM and PdM coverage, and current execution standards. The process then defines the appropriate strategies, technologies, tasks, and standards needed to detect defects earlier and support proactive work management.
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Assess asset coverage
Determine what percentage of the asset base is covered and which failure modes are currently addressed.
2
Validate criticality
Arrange assets by criticality ranking so strategy effort is focused where failure consequence is highest.
3
Map failure modes to tasks
Assign predictive technologies, preventive tasks, condition monitoring tasks, inspections, and lubrication activities to known failure modes.
4
Evaluate best investment
Compare coverage options against levels of industry quartile performance and the consequence of functional failure.
5
Develop equipment maintenance plans
Create practical EMPs with defined tasks, technologies, and follow-up work expectations.
6
Support execution and improvement
Coach teams on proactive work, precision execution, and ongoing improvement of maintenance standards.
our approach
Optimizing Equipment Health
Allied Reliability’s approach focuses on the early identification and elimination of defects. Instead of using technology to optimize a run-to-failure strategy, the service connects criticality, failure modes, PdM technologies, PM tasks, and operating standards so maintenance work is based on risk and equipment needs.
Coverage review
Customized strategy design
Rigor review
Lubrication integration
Economic analysis
Solutions
Equipment Health Challenges We Help Solve
Equipment Health Assurance supports reliability programs that need better control of failure risk, maintenance labor, and asset availability.
Reduce Unplanned Downtime
Detect defects earlier by aligning maintenance tasks and PdM technologies with the failure modes most likely to affect production.
Improve Equipment Availability
Use criticality and economic analysis to ensure the right assets receive the right level of maintenance and monitoring.
Strengthen PM and PdM Programs
Improve the balance of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, and lubrication tasks across critical assets.
Standardize Maintenance Practices
Create operational policies and standards that improve consistency across departments, sites, and work execution processes.
RESOURCES
Related Resources for Equipment Health Assurance
Industries
Supporting Reliability Across Critical Industries
We partner with asset-intensive industries where uptime, safety, and operational performance are essential. Helping teams help teams improve maintenance practices, strengthen reliability, and support more consistent production outcomes.
Paper & Forest Products
Chemical Processing
Oil & Gas
Food & Beverage
Mining & Materials
Hospitals & Healthcare
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About Equipment Health Assurance
What is Equipment Health Assurance?
Equipment Health Assurance is a consulting service that evaluates how well maintenance strategies address equipment failure modes across the asset base. It connects asset criticality, PM, PdM, condition monitoring, and maintenance standards.
What questions does the service help answer?
The service helps answer how much of the asset base is covered and how well those maintenance and monitoring standards are applied across facilities.
What deliverables are included?
Deliverables may include walkdown and criticality QA/QC, failure mode analysis, equipment maintenance plan development, PdM sourcing strategy, operational policies and standards, and PM optimization.
How does this differ from run-to-failure maintenance?
Run-to-failure accepts failure as the trigger for action. Equipment Health Assurance focuses on identifying defects early, assigning tasks to known failure modes, and creating proactive follow-up work before functional failure occurs.
Can the program include lubrication strategies?
Yes. The source service scope includes lubrication-related strategies and procedures as part of the customized equipment maintenance strategy.
When should an organization perform an Equipment Health Assurance assessment?
Organizations should consider an Equipment Health Assurance assessment when experiencing recurring equipment failures, inconsistent maintenance practices, expanding predictive maintenance programs, implementing new reliability initiatives, or seeking to standardize maintenance strategies across multiple facilities. It’s also valuable after major reliability improvements to confirm maintenance activities remain aligned with asset risk and failure modes.
