Maintenance... Predictive yes, but when....

Hi everyone,

In this article I would like to talk about how can mix perfectly production and maintenance. Of course maintenance team is always at work, especially when the production miss.

In that day you have the control of what you want to do. We take the example of the maintenance of a palletizer.

What is a palletizer?  From beverage to tissue, from food to petrochemical, it is always present.
It is  is a machine which provides automatic means for stacking cases of goods or products onto a pallet.

Palletizers

I've done the classical maintenance not during the production, but in a stop period to not limitate it. Obviously we had some problem that we have to face in the next days, because the noise of an a motor might create a lots of trouble for us.

Greasing mechanical parts

So, you decide to do predictive maintenance to save the machine and production too.

Try to do it when the production miss, because you have time to better think about what you might improve and better understand the problem that we might face. I know it's no easy... but we never give up, to maintain the line in a healthy line...