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The Manufacturing Stream Podcast Debuts
The Manufacturing Stream Podcast, hosted by Eric Whitley and Phil Anderson from Autoliv, is a valuable resource for...
September 11, 2019
"If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."
This statement is so true, it makes me laugh every time I see it. However, in the past it got me upset because I was the one trying to fight the production planners for time on the line.
How many times does your equipment break down, and the repair made was to simply complete the past-due PM or a planned fix that keeps getting pushed off because the line doesn't have time to shut down? Now it's three hours of unplanned downtime with operators looking for something to do.
It seems like an easy concept to shut down a line and perform preventive, proactive, predictive maintenance to ensure the lines keep running when the production is needed, but for some reason many don't understand the "pay me now or pay big later" concept.
This mentality to run equipment to failure can even lead to catastrophic issues that cause something to "grenade" inside the machine; to take it down and cause massive loss of production. Oh and yeah, you don't have the spare part on the shelf but that's another story.
Downtime is everyone's responsibility. And so is the scheduling of the time needed to ensure planned maintenance activities are completed.
Here are some tips to make that happen:
If you don't have a planned maintenance system, here's what you can expect:
As you implement your planned maintenance system, it will begin to foster the "love and harmony" that I mentioned above. Weekly meetings where production and maintenance are working together to ensure production and proactive work gets completed will be the norm rather than the exception.
By having the commitment to planning, it may be harder in the short term to do consistently, but you achieve greater benefits in the long term, such as:
As you look for a system to provide you with these important benefits, it's important that you look for some key capabilities that will ensure you achieve them:
L2L's revolutionary software, CloudDISPATCH, was designed to do exactly this. Discover how easy planned maintenance is with the system designed for manufacturers, by manufactures. Schedule your demo today!
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