Build a Practical Preventive Maintenance Program

Start small and pick a trigger

Start with assets that are operationally critical, failure-prone, expensive, safety-sensitive, or hard to access after failure, such as generators, transfer switches, air handlers, chillers, pumps, boilers, and life-safety systems.

Rivolq supports three trigger types. Calendar schedules create work by date. Meter schedules create work when a reading advances far enough. Condition schedules create work when a linked meter crosses warning or critical thresholds.

Schedule types

Calendar schedules can be fixed or floating. A fixed schedule stays on the original calendar grid, ideal for compliance and inspections. A floating schedule resets from when the work is generated, ideal when the next service should follow the last cycle.

Meter PMs require a linked asset meter and an interval, and are only as good as the readings. Condition PMs use warning and critical thresholds and are latched so they do not create repeated work for the same over-threshold state.

Why a PM might not generate

A PM may be skipped when the calendar date is still in the future, a meter schedule has no meter, interval, or current reading, a condition schedule has no threshold crossing or already triggered, or an open preventive work order already exists for the asset. Duplicates are intentionally avoided. Review schedules regularly and retire ones that no longer fit.