Why do we maintain our vehicles but not our scales? It is clear that preventive maintenance of cars has a beneficial impact on their performance and lifespan. The same principle applies to your scale too, often small faults are overlooked or ignored, over time these lead to serious damage which can be costly to repair and cause significant downtime. Preventive maintenance in combination with calibration is the most economical approach to ensuring productive and accurate equipment performance. Preventive maintenance is designed to avoid breakdowns through regular monitoring of equipment deterioration and restoring equipment to proper condition. The most important reason for a preventive maintenance program is reduced costs through reduced frequency of equipment breakdowns and extension of equipment life.
Reactive maintenance may be described as an approach where equipment is allowed to run until failure, when it is then either repaired or replaced it could be very costly and time consuming. Disadvantages include poor production planning and a higher risk of weighing errors which leads to a higher scrap output and reduced efficiencies. Overall maintenance costs tend to increase as well, as emergency repairs take place at higher costs.
Contact us today to discuss a service maintenance contract, in the long run you may save a lot on maintenance.
