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Preventative Maintenance Program
Our customised preventative maintenance program monitors and prevents equipment failure. By scheduling routine repairs, maintenance work and inspections, we will help to not only prevent equipment safety issues, breakdowns and compliance violations but prevent component failure. This can prevent unnecessary production downtime - saving you time and money!
 
Predictive Maintenance Program
Our customised predictive maintenance program not only maintains your equipment, but also predicts failures. After scheduling routine repairs and inspections to ensure compliance and preventively maintain your equipment, we analyse and prioritise your current and future repair needs. By predicting these needs, you can reduce unexpected repairs and unbudgeted equipment purchases. This predictive maintenance program will help you to reduce emergency repair costs (and downtime) and allows you to budget repairs and upgrades.

Konecranes Service Ltd offers customised inspection programs enhanced by unique maintenance software programs. Our maintenance management software systems capture data on the condition of hundreds of crane components, monitoring every crane in your operation individually. Whether you need compliance inspections or inspections to help you monitor your equipment's productivity and safety levels, Konecranes Service Ltd can help.

Our goal is to achieve maximum Life Cycle Profit of your material handling equipment by increasing the Overall Crane Effectiveness.
 
Periodical Inspection
A Statutory Scheduled Inspection determines whether usage of the crane has caused any changes that impinge on safety, and addresses in particular material fatigue, wear, corrosion and other damage. The Operational Reliability Inspection covers the safety of the user, the persons working within the operating zone of the lifting equipment, and service and repair personnel. The Operational Reliability Inspection also ensures operating reliability of the crane by defining the maintenance status of the equipment and checking the adequacy of preventive maintenance.

Purchasing a crane is a long term investment and we can help protect that investment to ensure peak efficiency throughout your crane's long life. Our personnel will work with your maintenance personal to determine a crane service and hoist maintenance program to fit your specific needs and will maintain your crane with regular lubrication, adjustments as needed, along with the replacement of worn parts.

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In North America, call toll free 800-933-3001 to contact the Morris Material Handling Center nearest you about our crane service and hoist maintenance.

Many organizations feel that if they can move from reactive to preventive maintenance they are headed on the right path, and that this in turn means they are on the road to proactive maintenance. However, as has been demonstrated by many studies, in excess of 80 percent of all failures are random. Therefore, time-based preventive maintenance (PM) programs will not be effective because you will, in most cases, be doing too much work too soon or too little work too late.

Over the past few decades, the demands placed on maintenance have been changing. In leading companies today maintenance is no longer viewed as a cost center, but rather is expected to contribute to the strategic goals of the company. In today

A very important part of a cost-effective preventive maintenance program is what I call the route-based activity. These are activities that are easiest to do, and to administer, if they are presented in a list. This list can be presented in electronic format or in a paper format and includes such activities as lubrication and inspections by maintenance craftspeople and equipment operators. There are two major things that surprise me regarding these basic preventive maintenance activities:

With the very good return on investment (ROI) you get from these programs, I am surprised at how many plants lack these programs or perform them very poorly.
All major computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) lack the capability to administer these routes in an efficient manner.
RETURN ON INVESTMENT. We use cost avoidance analysis as a tool to measure the return on investment (ROI) from route-based activity programs (exclusive of lubrication). In the last year we have verified the ROI to be between five to 10 times the initial investment and, after that, 10 to 30 times the cost to run the program. Even if such a good ROI can be verified, the inspection program is very poor in most plants and, if one exists, it is not executed with the highest priority.

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) SHORTCOMINGS. All CMMS providers we talk with say their systems can produce inspection lists to support inspection and lubrication routes. We must understand that, in the computer world, the answer is always, "Yes, our system can do that.

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