Preventive Maintenance Placards Industrial Signs’ preventive maintenance placards will increase your production efficiency and reduce or eliminate production downtime in your facility, resulting in cost savings and an improved bottom-line. Industrial Signs will utilize your equipment specifications and plant procedures to develop customized preventive maintenance placards to cover all planned maintenance activities. Preventive maintenance placards allow you to have an instantly available source of information for employees where they need it the most; at the machine. These signs promote the necessary maintenance to keep equipment running smoothly and help adhere to lean manufacturing practices, just in time and six sigma standards. Industrial Signs can design custom preventive-maintenance placards and provide visual controls for plant equipment to keep it running smoothly. How can we change our plant's maintenance culture from one that is totally reactive to one that allows us to become predictive and proactive? Changing cultural environments is not easy. Many plants have come to know just how “vicious” the cycle of reactive maintenance can be. Words heard over plant paging systems and 2-way radios are, “Breakdown! Breakdown, Column C-17!” After implementing changes, plants have managed to lower overall maintenance costs by using preventive technologies and becoming more proactive, thereby avoiding unscheduled downtimes and related costs. Industrial Signs can assist your plant with this process, and help you become proactive in your maintenance program