When you’re not prepared, you will falter. This applies to all industries, including packaging. When machines break down or motors fail, it causes downtime to happen, and this usually is at the costs of emergency maintenance and support.
If you’ve ever dealt with this and want to know how to prevent all of that from getting worse, the solution is being proactive.
Being proactive reduces the downtime that’s there and the long-term expenses that come with maintaining packaging and equipment. This also of course helps with improving the packaging experience.
Many packaging experts will look at the tactics that their co-packers will use, to help with management of the costs of machines.
These include the parts and services arrangements that are there, and also the equipment and what they’re planning to do with that, along with design aspects too.
How to Keep Costs Low
Obviously, being proactive is the first step.
Maintenance needs to be approached like you’re planning events, and this usually isn’t without some kind of warning.
For instance, maybe you want to sell something to customers, and you provide everything from the process of maintaining said machine, cleaning, and also other adjustments that might be necessary too. When you complete these, there’s less time wasted on this.
It is important to make sure that you try to get some predictive maintenance in place. Obviously accidents happen, but AI tools may be good as well for keeping up. Warning that the motor’s energy is getting low or about to go out is a good way to stay ahead of things, improving the results and solutions listed for customers of all types.
Try investing in some HMIs and tablets that are there for troubleshooting too. It could be good as well for a co-packer.
With predictive maintenance, you want to choose the right machine and components, and understand these lifecycles. You want to make sure that the co-packer and anyone associated with this does understand the needs of each machine.
Look at the Agreements
Agreements, specifically the parts and services agreements are important.
This is because, if you’re not paying attention to the parts that are accessible, you won’t be able to practice preventative maintenance, and you will have some wear and tear on parts, making it hard for people to continue operations.
You also want to make sure that getting the parts is not too hard. Look at the turn time for how long it takes to get parts, as this will help you with deciding the right person for the job.
Obviously, customers are interested in this because when working with a packer, they need the services and parts. This includes any spares, different audits and procedures and the like. Having this information keeps everyone abreast and making it easy offers faster maintenance than before.
The Design and Maintenance
You need to make sure that the packaging line design is good with flow and placement, and also choosing the correct design and equipment.
Specific individual designs for equipment are also good for take that offer more efficient types of access for personnel that need maintenance. It reduces the duration and time to the tasks at hand.
Making it easy for people to access or having the guard on a machine easy to pull away makes it much more efficient.
Getting maintenance down pat is a good strategy, as this will help with reducing the downtimes in a lot of cases. If you’re not already doing predictive maintenance, then what are you waiting for? Take advantage of this now and see the difference that this makes.
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