Productivity, reliable production planning and quality assurance are important for every plant and factory. These are basic principles in any field, but how can we ensure them? One important aspect is the regular servicing, repair and troubleshooting of machinery, but most importantly the prevention of unwanted faults and downtimes. I have come across many cases where the customer tried to ‘push’ the service appointment, but had no information about how much spare capacity the equipment had. They “felt” there was still life in it, it could still hold. Well, it didn’t, and the bearing broke. Unfortunately for them, the bearing housing was also destroyed by this failure. But the loss of production due to delivery time was much greater than the cost of the service.
We could list many such and similar cases. Saving money in the life of a factory never pays off. A decision that “there is still life in it” can be made on the basis of a well-considered condition based on measurements carried out by an expert, but this decision should always be based on vibration analysis, bearing diagnostics and, if necessary, thermographic measurements.
Inappropriate decision-making can cause much greater financial damage than hiring a specialist and paying for an expert opinion.
Following a machine condition assessment, if required and the equipment is not beyond our capabilities, we will also carry out the overhaul.
