Maintenance and reliability
Plan preventive work, watch machine condition, and fix equipment before a failure stops the line.
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Maintenance and reliability
How to cut maintenance response time
Response time runs from a machine stopping to a technician at it. Split it into four segments, time each one, and fix the one where your slowest stops wait.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
Detecting CNC tool crashes from shock events
Catch every CNC tool crash from the shock it sends through the machine: what a crash looks like in g, how to set the threshold and what to do after each alert.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
When the production schedule leaves no time for PM
Book PM as a job on its machine so it takes capacity, time it to changeovers and weekends, price each deferral, and agree who decides when PM and orders clash.
Ulises Carrasco ·
Maintenance and reliability
Turn a classified stop into a work order in the same step
Open the work order where the operator classifies the stop, so it starts with the machine, reason, time, duration and note. Decision guide and example inside.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
What is a CMMS, and why start it from the machine?
A CMMS tracks work orders, PM schedules, assets and spare parts. See what it does for a plant, why hand-entered history misleads, and how to judge floor fit.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
How to build a preventive maintenance schedule that holds
A PM schedule holds when every task has an owner, a time estimate and a booked stop. Build the task list, level the weekly hours and track PM compliance.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
Usage-based maintenance from run hours and part counts
Usage-based maintenance makes PM due on run hours or parts made, not dates. Pick the unit, set the first interval, size the warning and keep dates where needed.
Reliability Engineering Team ·
Maintenance and reliability
How to choose a maintenance strategy for each machine
Match each machine to reactive, preventive, usage-based, condition-based or predictive maintenance with a four-question test, survey data and worked examples.
Reliability Engineering Team ·