| Time | Pump Tag | Task | Hot-Specific Note | OK (1) | Fail (0) | Temp Reading | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 07:00 | P-101 | Bearing Housing Temp | Max 180°F for grease; 200°F for oil | ☐ | ☐ | 172°F | | 07:00 | P-101 | Mechanical Seal Flush | Is the flush cool? Hot flush = seal failure imminent | ☐ | ☐ | 210°F | | 07:00 | P-101 | Stuffing Box Leakage | Hot fluid should drip at 10-20 drops/min; steam flashing? | ☐ | ☐ | N/A | | 07:00 | P-101 | Casing Condensate | Steam tracing on? Cold spots indicate plugging | ☐ | ☐ | N/A | | 07:00 | P-101 | Baseplate Contact | Listen for "ticking" - thermal expansion scraping | ☐ | ☐ | N/A |

Open Excel. Create the four tabs above. Input your pump data. Set the conditional formatting to turn red at 200°F bearing temps. You will immediately reduce your Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

Let’s build the ultimate hot pump PM checklist inside an Excel workbook. Before we dive into the Excel template, we must address the thermal factor. Standard ambient-temperature pump checks are not sufficient for hot service.

By: Reliability Engineering Team

While paper checklists get greasy, lost, or ignored, a dynamic offers real-time tracking, conditional formatting warnings, and sortable data history.