PM Basis 1.5

PM Basis by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is a software-based knowledge resource that helps utilities and plant operators build, justify, and optimize preventive maintenance (PM) programs. Drawing on industry operating experience, engineering analysis, and Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles, it provides equipment-specific guidance that is traceable and defensible.

Key capabilities:

• Equipment templates that outline common failure modes, causes, effects, and recommended preventive or condition-based tasks
• Suggested task intervals with documented technical basis to support audits and regulatory reviews
• Tools to tailor PM tasks to site conditions, duty cycles, criticality, and risk
• Searchable libraries covering a wide range of utility and plant equipment types
• Reporting and export options to streamline loading tasks into a CMMS or enterprise maintenance system
• Periodic content updates that reflect current industry practices and lessons learned

Benefits:

• Improves reliability and availability by targeting failure mechanisms proactively
• Reduces maintenance costs by focusing effort where it delivers the highest value
• Standardizes PM programs across sites and fleets with consistent, evidence-based guidance
• Strengthens compliance and audit readiness with clear, documented rationale for each task

Typical uses:

• Establishing a new preventive maintenance program for a plant or fleet
• Optimizing existing PM tasks and intervals to remove low-value work and close gaps
• Supporting risk-informed maintenance planning and resource allocation
• Providing a defensible technical basis during internal and external reviews

Developer: EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)

PM Basis is developed by EPRI. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.5.