Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance

Most people usually associate costs with doing something. Replacing tooling, cleaning molds, fixing things, etc. But actually, the highest costs come from doing nothing.
•Doing nothing means that repair work comes in the form of unscheduled events, which experts claim cost four to five times as much as scheduled work. In a reactive-maintenance strategy, molds only get worked on when they squeak, leak, break, or make bad parts.
•So who’s at fault? A major part of the blame sets squarely on the shoulders of the type of work-order systems we use where maintenance “stories” are entered instead of usable data. It’s difficult to measure or quantify the words in a “story.” So this means we can’t count, compare, target, or forecast ongoing issues from a mold’s maintenance history

TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) brings maintenance into focus as a necessary and vitally important part of the business. Down time for maintenance is scheduled as a part of the manufacturing day and an integral part of the manufacturing business. The goal is to hold emergency and unscheduled maintenance to a minimum

At Creative Blow Mold Tooling, we believe there is no substitute for good data.

Documentation like this is an important tool and should be a major part of maintenance planning.

Using actual performance data is critical in developing a mold maintenance schedule that is part of a proactive, defect-targeting mold-maintenance culture–increasing your performance, efficiency and productivity.