Let’s get started! Why are we recommending an end of year service check? Because we love our CNC machines and we want them to run smooth and efficiently in order to save and make you money. Sounds great right! As we transition into the New Year everyone is looking for ways to build better habits both at work and in their private lives at home. Whether it is a new diet, a new filing system or a new organizational productivity enhancing procedure at work……we want to start the new year with better habits. Let’s go over a few pointers.
We recommend you create your baseline for the New Year. If you start the New Year knowing your CNC machine is running at optimal performance, you can create and follow a maintenance protocol, which should keep your system service cost lower than last years. This is absolutely something your team can do without any additional service cost to you. (Technically we all should be running a daily, weekly and monthly check on our CNC machine already.) So each maintenance program should be geared specifically for your CNC machine. Each program should touch on the following key components:
The best operators know their machine and can let you know the minute something goes awry. We offer or recommend these best practices because we believe knowing your machine is essential. If your operator is following a monthly, weekly or daily preventative maintenance program, they will become aware of any discrepancies that may appear before they escalate to bigger issues (<--- this saves you money). Of course there are some shops that act reactively to issues instead of taking pro-active actions. If you are one of these shops, don’t worry you are not alone!
In closing, thank you for taking the time read through the article. Feel free to give us a call, one of our sales engineers would be more than happy to answer any questions regarding a preventative maintenance check for your CNC flame cutter.
Happy Holidays from Plasma Systems Inc.