Condition Based Maintenance

Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy aimed at extending machine life, increasing productivity, and lowering your daily operating costs. Unlike periodic maintenance (PM) where services are based upon scheduled intervals, CBM relies upon actual machine health to dictate when and what maintenance is required. By considering operating, environment, temperatures, and application, CBM delivers better control over the health of the machine.

CBM delivers machine performance customers have come to expect from John Deere. Although PM has proven to prevent some failures, many machines still experience premature and/or major failures. Unanticipated failures and emergency repairs have a negative effect on your uptime and don't match up with the John Deere value proposition:

• Maximum Productivity
• Maximum Uptime
• Lowest Daily Operating Costs

The fact is that even a small failure can lead to a catastrophic one if not addressed proactively. Monitoring machine health and controlling contamination are key to eliminating failures.

At the end of the day, when it's time for our customer to sell or trade their CBM machine, the well documented maintenance history will certainly result in a higher resale value.