Trunnion Kiln Lubrication Maintenance Planning

Preventative Maintenance & Tire Lubrication

Published on December 5, 2012 by: Kimberlie Stewart

Creating and implementing a preventative maintenance plan is an ideal way to mitigate the chances of unexpected downtime from equipment failure. Fortunately the process of creating a good working plan is not overly complicated. With only a few hours of your time you can create an effective preventative maintenance plan for your plant.

How to Develop a Preventive Maintenance Plan

As a plant owner or supervisor, you are well aware that the productivity of your machinery is the lifeline of your business. Without properly functioning machinery, you lose production time, put your business relationships at risk, and ultimately spend much more on repair or replacement than you would if you spent the time formulating a preventive maintenance plan. Many factors weigh into keeping your equipment in tip-top shape. However, the productivity of your machinery most often relies upon your ability to keep satisfactorily levels of industrial lubricants in your equipment. When your machines are well-oiled, they operate at their highest output levels, which keeps your daily production goals on track and your entire operation ahead of schedule.

Step One - Check Existing Lubrication Schedules

Take inventory of all of your major equipment's preventative lubricants schedules. Gather all of your machinery's manuals together, along with a large, unused yearly calender. Find the manufacturer's industrial preventative lubricants suggestions, and go through the calender, marking the intervals at which you should administer the industrial lubricants to the equipment.

Step Two - Needs Assessments

Write down the expected time it will take to apply the industrial preventative lubricants to the machinery, and what additional materials you will need, in addition to the industrial lubricants, to execute the preventative maintenance plan.

If one or more of your machines has a repeated breakdown history, it is a good idea to more frequently apply preventive lubricants to the machine. For example, if the manufacturer recommends that you apply the lubricant every six months, you might want to apply the lubricant every four months to better ensure that the machine stays functioning without a breakdown throughout the year.

Step Three - Organize Master Calendar

Transfer the preventative lubricants calender recordings to a text or spreadsheet file. Include all of the preventative maintenance dates for each machine, along with the special instructions for problematic machinery.

Step Four - Implement New Schedule

Keep the master calender in a place that you will see everyday, such as in your office, to ensure that you remain on your yearly industrial lubricants maintenance schedule. Then, print several copies of the schedule, and give them to the people responsible for performing the maintenance tasks.

Step Five - Create An Inspection Plan

Finally, devise a semi-annual machinery inspection plan to search for clues of impending problems before they start to compromise the machinery's output. At this time, you can reevaluate each machine's specific maintenance needs, and determine if you need to add industrial preventative lubricants at a faster or slower rate to maintain the optimal output of the machine.