Everything Washington Biomedical Services publishes on biomedical equipment preventive maintenance in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
Below is every page Washington Biomedical Services maintains for biomedical equipment preventive maintenance — the complete overview, the related services, and the surrounding locations our technicians cover.
The value of preventive maintenance shows up in what does not happen: the procedure that is not cancelled, the loaner that is not needed, the overnight call that does not come. That makes it easy to underfund and expensive to have underfunded.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
Preventive maintenance is the work you do so the repair call never happens. Inspection, cleaning, wear-part replacement and performance verification, on a schedule set by the manufacturer and the device's own history — done properly it converts unplanned downtime into planned downtime, which is the whole point.
A preventive maintenance programme is only as good as its completion rate. A schedule that is 70 percent complete is not a programme; it is a list of devices someone intended to look at, and inspectors read the gap rather than the intent.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
Every visit produces documentation an inspector can read without a translator: what was done, to what standard, by whom, and when it is next due.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
Preventive maintenance is the work you do so the repair call never happens. Inspection, cleaning, wear-part replacement and performance verification, on a schedule set by the manufacturer and the device's own history — done properly it converts unplanned downtime into planned downtime, which is the whole point.
Communication is part of the deliverable. If a device is going to be out longer than quoted, you hear it when it becomes true, not when you call to ask where it is.
Gaps in a maintenance record are read as gaps in maintenance, whether or not the work was done. The paperwork and the work are the same obligation.
Quotes are specific to the equipment in front of you. The scope is agreed before the work is quoted, not after it is done.
Current developments in biomedical equipment preventive maintenance, with sources for further reading.
Primary regulations and standards referenced on this page. Where a standard is published commercially it is named in full rather than linked to a copy.
