Preventative Maintenance Saves Time
Preventative maintenance can save your company’s vehicle fleet hundreds – even thousands – of hours per year. Vehicle downtime hurts productivity and is six times costlier than an emergency, corrective maintenance. Preventative maintenance reduces the amount of time it takes to keep a vehicle in optimal working condition and can detect problems before they become much worse.
The diagram below depicts the amount of vehicle downtime over the course of a year. The fleet manager of this organization has no preventative maintenance plan in place. The manager relies solely on corrective maintenance to maintain the fleet.
Within this timeframe, four breakdowns occurred totaling 417.6 working hours of downtime for corrective repair.
The vehicle up-time totaled around 80.8% for the year.
The next diagram depicts vehicle downtime AFTER a preventative maintenance plan has been implemented.
In the diagram above, the intervals of downtime are much smaller and more frequent.
Over the course of a year, vehicle up-time was recorded at 95%.
The vehicle was taken out of operation for short periods of time, inspected, and serviced appropriately.
During these scheduled events, potential problems can be identified early on and preemptive repairs can be made.
These small repairs ultimately saved the company more hours because the vehicles didn’t suffer a critical failure that would have otherwise taken much longer to repair.
When a vehicle breaks down for unknown causes, it takes much longer to diagnosis the problem. Having an up-to-date record of maintenance for every vehicle decreases the time it takes to diagnose a problem.
Remember, downtime is largely based on parts availability and delivery. It takes a lot of time and effort to coordinate the logistics of the repair. For fleet managers, time is the ultimate currency.
Summary of Results:
Without preventative maintenance: 417.6 hours of downtime.
With a preventative maintenance plan: 104.4 hours of downtime.
Total time saved by utilizing a preventative maintenance plan: 313.2 hours of time saved throughout the year.
The up-time for the company (with a PM plan in place) was found to be at 95.1%.
Adopting a preventative maintenance plan ended up saving about 313.2 hours in lost downtime due to breakdowns or missing parts.
Cycles of Maintenance
Cycles of maintenance can either be negative or positive.
A negative cycle of maintenance involves emergency repairs. These emergency repairs lead eventually to more emergency repairs.
How does this happen?
Because emergency repairs are time-consuming and costly, these repairs naturally steal time away from the maintenance of your existing equipment.
Reactive maintenance leads to more work.
Once you are in this negative cycle of maintenance, it’s very difficult to escape.
A company can quickly become comfortable with jumping from emergency to emergency.
The corporate culture becomes reactive – always needing to adapt and catch the next emergency.
Company culture can decide if a business thrives or fades.
If your organization is small, it may be too difficult to step back, stop reacting to the situation, and take a measured look at how your business is operating.
In cases such as these, it’s very difficult to analyze and manage company resources.
Excessive breakdowns lead to emergency overtime hours and further deplete company resources. This prevents your company from breaking the negative cycle.
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Because all company resources are busy making emergency corrective repairs, equipment that would otherwise be operational with regular maintenance now has the potential to breakdown and become unusable.
The positive cycle of maintenance is self-perpetuating.
Although breakdowns are inevitable and equipment cannot last forever, company resources are more appropriately managed in a positive cycle of maintenance.
A PM plan helps your business make the right decisions and frees up resources.
A positive cycle of maintenance experiences few emergency breakdowns. This means there are less emergency hours and there are time and money available to invest in other areas of business development.
The reason why many businesses don’t adopt effective PM plans is simple.
Business owners see preventative maintenance as an expense. But they should really see it as an investment.
In competitive markets, having optimized operations can help your company reduce costs and ultimately lower your prices for the consumer.
Similarly, preventative maintenance goes hand-in-hand with quality control and excellence in service.
Preventative maintenance means your standardizing your operations.
Great PM plans only work if all gears are moving in the same direction.
Quality and consistency naturally improve with a PM plan. It’s a byproduct and the net positive of having a detailed plan.
Your customers will thank you for your top-tier service and consistency.
El kit de tinte fluido multicolor TP-8692
Si un vehículo pierde constantemente líquido operativo entre las inspecciones, esto es una indicación de una fuga y eso significa que hay un problema grave.
Las fugas pueden ser grandes o pequeñas. Si la fuga es importante, el sistema del vehículo se apagará y dejará de funcionar por completo.
But smaller leaks can erode at system integrity over a longer period of time, inflicting damage slowly and perhaps unnoticed.
In cases such as these, the UV Multi-Colored Fluid Dye Kit is the perfect preventative maintenance solution.
Los tintes fluorescentes codificados por colores detectan las fugas de forma rápida y eficaz en varios sistemas durante una sola exploración.
Se pueden detectar incluso las fugas más pequeñas y difíciles.
En un informe del sector de 2016, se descubrió que las herramientas de mantenimiento preventivo, como la detección de fugas por fluorescencia ultravioleta, pueden detener ¼ de los fallos del sistema del vehículo, lo que ahorra a los propietarios de automóviles cientos o incluso miles de dólares al año.
Con un conjunto de tintes de detección de fugas codificados por colores, un solo técnico puede diagnosticar fugas en varios sistemas del vehículo.
The kit includes three color-coded dyes for petroleum and synthetic-based fluids: white dye, yellow dye, and blue dye (red dye is sold separately). These multi-color dyes allow a technician to check for transmission, brake, oil, fuel, power steering, and other fluid-based leaks.
The kit also includes a specially designed green fluorescent dye for conventional coolant.
Los tintes UV de Tracerline son concentrados, seguros de usar y no afectan a las propiedades químicas del sistema del vehículo ni cambian el funcionamiento del fluido.
Estos colorantes especiales pueden permanecer de forma segura dentro del sistema de fluidos.
Eso significa que, una vez realizada la reparación, el tinte puede utilizarse como parte de un programa de mantenimiento preventivo.
Cada vez que un cliente acude a la revisión de su vehículo, lo único que tiene que hacer el técnico es escanear el sistema del vehículo con una lámpara de detección de fugas UV.
If there are new leaks in the system, the fluorescent dye will glow brilliantly and indicate the exact location of all new leaks, across all fluid-based vehicle systems.
Tracerline’s UV Multi-Colored Fluid Dye Kit has been featured on the cover of Professional Tool and Equipment Magazine’s December 2017 Issue.
Es el primer y único kit de detección de fugas completamente personalizable y codificado por colores para todos los sistemas de vehículos basados en fluidos.
