Maintenance
Preventive schedules and downtime tracking for older equipment.
Older equipment runs on routine more than on luck. These articles cover preventive schedules, how to record downtime so the data is usable, and how to decide which jobs deserve a fixed interval and which can wait for a work order.
The floor reference has a preventive maintenance checklist you can adapt, and the OEE guide shows how a downtime log turns into a number you can track.
Read these first
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Field checklist
Preventive maintenance checklist for plant equipment
A shift, weekly, monthly and yearly task list to adapt to your own machines, with notes on lockout and records.
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Field glossary
Plant floor glossary: maintenance and production terms
Short, plain definitions of the terms used in maintenance, quality and scheduling conversations.
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Working rules
About our notes: how Shop Floor Notes is written
How we write, what we will and will not publish, and how corrections work.
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Field calculator
OEE calculator for a machine or production line
Work out availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift's numbers.