Heavy Machinery which includes construction equipment and Generators arethe most expensive equipment you own. It’s also the costliest to repair or replace. This weekly guide from Signals Innovation will show you how to save money and extend the life cycle of your equipment with regular maintenance best practices.
We’ll identify commonly overlooked areas of maintenance, and identify simple things you can do to greatly impact the long-term value of your most vital equipment. Even the most powerful and dependable Cat® machinery requires basic attention to ensure it provides the exceptionally long service life and unmatched productivity of Cat construction vehicles.
WHY YOU NEED TO BE PROACTIVE ABOUT MACHINE MAINTENANCE
Being proactive in your heavy equipment maintenance schedule helps prevent expensive downtime. Regular maintenance helps predict when failure is likely to occur, allowing you to find a solution to problems before they happen.
Let’s look at this in terms of real money. Preventive maintenance can reduce machinery repair bills by 25 percent.
SIMPLE STEPS TO MAXIMIZE HEAVY EQUIPMENT MACHINE LIFE
Here are Simple Steps you can begin today to improve the ROI and extend the service life of your construction equipment.
So beginning with this week, the first step is to:
COMMIT TO A PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
Preventive Maintenance (PM) helps anticipate change, and wear and tear. Corrective actions are taken continuously to ensure reliability and performance. PM involves regular systematic inspections, modification and replacement of components as well as performance testing and analysis.
A successful preventive maintenance program extends construction equipment life and minimizes unscheduled downtime caused by equipment breakdown. Benefits from a proper PM program include:
- Improved equipment and system reliability
- Reduction of unexpected breakdown
- Decrease in expensive parts replacement
- Extended equipment life
- Improved resale value
- Better parts inventory management
- Preventive maintenance is more than regular maintenance like lubricating and changing and filters. A proper preventive maintenance (PM) program is all-inclusive. It’s an intentional approach to equipment management from the time equipment is purchased until the end of its useful life.
- Your Preventive Maintenance program can include any or all of these customer value agreements:
- Total Maintenance and Repair Agreements
- Machinery Inspection Programs
- Site Inspections
- Field Service
- In-Shop Service
- Diagnostic Technology
- S-O-S Fluid Analysis including Fuel, Oil and Coolants
- Failure Analysis
- Product Link On-Board Analysis
- Condition Monitoring
- Electronic Information Collection
- Machine Inspection Data
- Historical Repair Data
- Component Rebuilds
- Component Tracking
- Specialized Repair Tooling & Equipment
- Equipment Management Software
- Customer Training Seminars
- Training etc..
Next week, we will go into details of each of these modules .
Have a productive and hitch free week.
From Signals Innovation
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