What is Preventing Maintenance and how significant it is for extending lifetime usage of cutting punching machines?

How does Preventive Maintenance (PM) matter to the industry?

Preventive Maintenance, also known as PM, is one of the processes for maintaining industrial equipment, and facilities in factories.  Characteristics of Preventive Maintenance Field are planning the checkup plans, cleaning, fixing, or machine’s part modification within time scheduled. Preventive Maintenance are essential to all industrial factories and entrepreneurs, besides extending service time usage for longer, accurately reducing conflicts during production process, and efficiently maintaining quality production process.

The Importance of Preventing Maintenance Program

• Extending lifespan of machine
  The key objective of Preventing Maintenance is to extend the service life of machines to be longer by regularly monitoring industrial machines and their equipment's parts. Supposing that defects are found, initial solutions are able to be processed.
  
  
• Keeps production process ongoing
  Preventing Maintenance program refers to planning longtime lifespan usage for industrial machines and associated equipment, efficiently maintaining the production process in factories. In addition to maintaining quality and increasing productivity, including great machine’s condition, without breakdowns.
  
  
• Reducing Production costs and maintaining properties of the company.
  Preventing Maintenance significantly assists entrepreneurs and factories save costs in the long-term because you can plan and perform maintenance in advance. This prevents downtime errors and saves the cost, by extending the lifespan of the machine. Also, reduce maintenance and unnecessary costs.

Characteristics of Preventing Maintenance Program

1. Time-based Preventive maintenance
   Time-based maintenance refers to inspecting and cleaning industrial equipment within scheduled time, for instance annual inspection, quarterly inspection, monthly inspection, and weekly inspection. However, the entrepreneurs must read the prevention manual from the manufacturer and supplier, to schedule the inspection time.
   
   

2. Usage-based Maintenance
   This type of preventing maintenance is to set maintenance solutions after machines are used for a period. Usage-Based type is more accurate than Time-Based type because industrial machines can specifically define which parts are used and managed.

3. Predictive Maintenance
   Predictive Maintenance is an advanced maintenance type. It focuses on reducing the planning work and remains the necessary part. Predictive Maintenance relies on the data analysis of professionals, and accordingly considers before proceeding the preventative maintenance. Loads of data supports analysis and consideration to entrepreneurs in investment and precisely preventing maintenance.

Extending lifetime usage of cutting punching machine

• Regularly monitors cutting punching machine
  Regularly inspect the quality and operating conditions of the cutting punching machine, defining the machine's uptime. Immediately process maintenance or replacement once defects were found. For instance, when the surface with PVD coating erodes, new tooling needs to be replaced immediately. After replacing with the new tooling, the eroded tooling could be delivered to fix, or re-coating PVD once again and become reusable tooling.
  
  
• Operating Machine to work correctly
  Deep understanding of the machine’s operations and properly selecting the perfect cutting punching machine to the process, can extend lifespan of the machine’s services because industrial machines are built with different purposes of use. Selects PVD Coating suits particular job helps prolong industrial lifespan usage.
  
  
• Preventive Maintenance
  To maintain industrial machine works long life services, preventing maintenance are essential. Clarify the maintenance plan, industrial workers are allowed to know the schedule and tasks, and correctly inspect and maintain the industrial equipment. Acknowledge the machines’ inspection, defects errors, fixing solution, and gather them all to find the cause of the machine errors and set preventative plans.

For Drill bits uses (for cutting tools, insert, punching, or forming Mold) normally abrasion, wear and tear are occurred and caused machine to stop working. Then, new equipment will be ordering to replace. This situation causes time consuming, laboring, and higher costs, therefore PVD coating process provide micron coating on the surface of material. The hardness of the film is higher than Tungsten carbide, comparing with Hard Chrome or Nitriding. PVD Coating greatly provides higher hardness and wear reduction with a micro thin file. Plus, the tiny coating on the surfaces effectively reduces the amount of time to maintain the machine’s part within a year, reduces the capital costs, and reduces steps of maintenance procedure.

Conclusion

Although industrial machines are developed these days, the lifespan of machine services is significant to industrial fields. Constantly operating machines cannot be overlooked. After a certain period, the machine itself would require replacement parts to repair the machine to its working order. In this case the company must regularly keep track of Preventing Maintenance. By monitoring and maintains machines or proceed prevention process to prolong machine’s lifespan. Heating and coating the surface of the machines in the factory makes them durable and resistant to rust and prevents chemical corrosion during manufacturing process. By all that, you must suitably prolong your machines.

Once the machine is properly serviced the surface of the machine should be strong and flow smoothly which will also decrease friction on the production line and in the meantime reduce the amount of energy required to operate the machinery specially when the humidity is high.

Thai Parkerizing as the leader of PVD Coating and steel coating technologies for multi-purposes. We continuously commit, develop and research for better solutions to cover client's needs. If you are an entrepreneur who's interested in our coating services for preventing maintenance programs, reach us for more information. To extend your industrial machine’s lifespan and profits your businesses. We desire to serve you our best.