Maintaining the accuracy and life of your industrial weighing equipment is extremely important, but is preventive maintenance really necessary, and the most effective way of achieving optimal performance?
Is a preventive maintenance contact something you must have, or a luxury you can’t afford?
A preventive maintenance programme is designed to extend the life and accuracy of industrial weighing equipment, leading to performance, cost and efficiency benefits.
Routine maintenance contracts are tailored to your bespoke requirements
Finding a business that both supplies equipment and provides other services like routine maintenance contracts is often the best combination, as it means you have a single company dealing with all aspects of your weighing scale efficiency. This is also good for accountability.
Look out for suppliers that provide UKAS calibration and preventive repair packages
While each contract is different, scheduled maintenance visits may include lubrication of scales, minor component replacement, specialist pit cleaning of weighbridges, pit scales, pallet truck scales etc, and routine calibration and adjustment, ensuring scales are operating within legal tolerances.
A UKAS approved calibration house must carry out calibrations
Sometimes an overhaul or upgrades to existing equipment can save the cost of outright replacement; this can be established during scheduled visits.
Traceability is hugely important
For QC purposes, it’s important that you can demonstrate that you are adopting best practices in relation to calibration, equipment maintenance etc, so all visits should be fully documented for traceability purposes.
The key benefit of implementing preventive measures when it comes to equipment maintenance is that it reduces downtime, given fewer machines breakdown, thus causing little or no disruption to daily routines and business efficiency.
All routine maintenance is typically carried out during periods of shutdown, or whenever it’s deemed to be least intrusive.
Is preventive maintenance really necessary? Here at Abacus, we think it is, but then our standards are exceptionally high.
Abacus Weighing Services is a name that’s respected throughout the weighing industry. Specialising in Dini Argeo equipment, Abacus supplies to end-users and through their approved distribution network.
