How to Boost Manufacturing Reliability With Preventive Maintenance

What’s good for the manufacturer is good for the customer

Preventive maintenance, specifically in production and manufacturing industries, has been a fundamental part of product consistency for years. It is well known that without product consistency, customer complaints and rework will soon be the result. What does preventive maintenance do to directly assist in product consistency? Well, a whole lot.

Manufacturers specifications

When manufacturers of a piece of equipment used in the manufacturing process sell their equipment, they include a manual that lists the specifications at which the machine must run to produce the optimum product. As the machine operates during the normal course of production, it begins to “walk out of spec,” or develop minute changes in the products that are further and further away from optimum products. This is inevitable when manufacturing a particular product, and it is usually undetectable to the naked eye.

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Preventive Maintenance

Maintenance--including corrective, preventive and inspections--are indeed critical for any industry, particularly in the healthcare industry where medical equipment is essential for patient care as the COVID pandemic has shown. Unfortunately, many medical device manufacturers are not willing to share maintenance information (manuals, software, etc.), provide training or selling replacement parts. Even during the pandemic, some of them were unable or unwilling to send their field service team to the severely affected hospitals. For more information related to our challenges, please visit this webpage: https://repair.org/medical.