on-demand Webinar

Stopping the Downtime Cycle on Old Equipment

Your oldest machines aren't the problem. Not knowing what they're about to do is.

Most plants are running equipment that's older than half the team on the floor. It still works, and replacing it isn't in the budget. But without any real visibility into it, every failure shows up as a surprise, and every fix is a scramble.

This is Part 1 of L2L's Shop Floor Chronicles, a four-part series bringing practical fixes to the challenges plants deal with every day. In this session, we look at how teams are getting ahead of failures on aging equipment without a full PLC upgrade or a new machine.

  • Catching Failures Before They Happen: How simple sensors on older machines flag problems weeks out, so a breakdown becomes a scheduled fix instead of an emergency.
  • Getting Knowledge Out of One Person's Head: What happens when the one operator who "just knows" the equipment retires, and how plants are capturing that knowledge before it walks out the door.
  • Moving Past the Paper Logbook: Why tribal knowledge and handwritten notes don't scale, and what teams are using instead to keep everyone working from the same information.
  • Repair or Replace, Backed by Data: How real-time visibility turns a gut-call decision into one you can actually justify.

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Speakers

CurtisBird

Curtis Bird

Director of Implementations

at L2L

With 28 years in automotive maintenance engineering and nearly a decade guiding L2L software rollouts, Curtis brings a rare combination to the floor: he’s lived the exact equipment headaches digitization is meant to fix, and he knows how to turn plant-floor data into real, measurable uptime.

DavidPugh

David Pugh

Sales Solutions Engineering

at L2L

David Pugh is a Senior Manufacturing Solutions Engineer at L2L with over 15 years of hands-on experience in engineering, lean improvement, and automation. He specializes in bridging the gap between shop-floor reality and modern technology, giving operators and leaders practical visibility that drives measurable results.