When your business grinds to a halt due to equipment breakage or unforeseen downtime, it is not only your business’s bottom line that is at stake, but also those businesses that your business supplies who will feel the pinch. Deadlines will likely be harder to hit unless your customer is sympathetic to your needs.
However, there are ways that you can make sure that your business’s downtime or equipment breakages are cut to an absolute minimum to keep your worker working and your customers happy.
Train Employees to Care for and Check Their Equipment
If you are wise, you will train your employees to care for and check their pieces of machinery before they start working with them and again at the end of their shift and may be taking a much closer look at the end of each working week.
Those employees that are continuously using the same piece of machinery will be able to spot very quickly when there is something wrong with its running and even more so if they are taught to actively watch out for faults.
Keep the Working Area Clean and Tidy
Keeping the working area clean and tidy is very important on so many different levels.
- it will stop your employee from getting distracted
- it will keep your employee’s work and their machinery free from dust and debris
Although you may not think too much of it, dust and debris getting into machinery can cause faults, damage, and overheating, especially if it gets into the moving parts of the machine. Not only this, but it could incite fires, which is a problem for all concerned, especially if the piece of machinery or those around it have or use fire accelerators or flammable products. Just one spark could not only put an end to that day’s work, but it could work out to be very expensive in lost working hours and machinery, maybe even worse, and cause casualties and lawsuits.
Hire Experienced and Professional Repair Specialists
When your employees find that there is something wrong with your machinery or when your machinery stops working for one reason or another, you would do well to hire the services of an experienced and professional business to carry out the repairs for you. It is best to go with businesses that offer specialized services such as hydraulic repair services should you have an issue with the hydraulic systems within your machinery. This is because they know the subject that they are specialized in better than anyone, you will therefore get an outstanding level of service and they will be able to provide you with quality advice and workmanship.
To Wrap It All Up
Of course, you are going to want to keep your manufacturing business running at full tilt, as time is money. Keeping your employees working is one thing, but your employees cannot work if their machinery is not working or is in the process of breaking down.
It is, therefore, a good idea to get your employees to check over their machinery every day before they start using it, and they should be looking for damage and worn parts. It is also beneficial in this time to make sure that there is no dust, dirt, or debris that could easily be sucked into the machine or around the areas where your employee has to work.
Should things go wrong, and you need to call someone in to fix your machine, then it is prudent to call a company that specializes either in the machinery itself or in the area of the fault such as the hydraulic system if that is the part that is no longer working.
