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Ecmweb 8071 Mro Insider Solving Slowdown Problems
Ecmweb 8071 Mro Insider Solving Slowdown Problems
Ecmweb 8071 Mro Insider Solving Slowdown Problems
Ecmweb 8071 Mro Insider Solving Slowdown Problems
Ecmweb 8071 Mro Insider Solving Slowdown Problems

Solving Slowdown Problems

March 1, 2016
Let’s see if you might be able to implement any of these solutions in your plant.

A plant that produced parts used in the manufacture of industrial motors had a complex machine with several repair-related problems. The maintenance team developed a solution for each problem. Let’s see if you might be able to implement any of these solutions in your plant.

• Diagnosing the problem often took hours. The responding technician was selected based on who was available, not on who was qualified.
Solution: Train two technicians for this critical equipment, pull one of them off other work if necessary. Ask the manufacturer to provide a trouble diagnosis flow chart (they did).

• Spare parts often had to be flown in overnight.
Solution: Identify the most likely parts failures, stock a minimum of two spares.

• It was difficult to communicate with the manufacturer’s technical support while working on the machine.
Solution: Install a dedicated phone with cordless headset, with the manufacturer’s number stored in memory.

• During repairs, tools and test equipment got spread out all over the floor. Test leads got inadvertently disconnected and tools got kicked under other equipment.
Solution: Modify a cart specifically for testing and repairing this machine.

• There was no clean floor space on which to set things.
Solution: Add a tarp to that cart.

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