In Preventive Maintenance: Used Industrial Robots Part I, we addressed some ways that you could keep your robots in top shape. And with this post, we’re back! As promised, we bring the remaining tips to help you devise an effective, preventive maintenance plan and procedure for your industrial robots. Here’s what you need to do next:
Delegate Duties
To ensure you leave no room for confusions and misunderstandings, assign tasks to each member of the team. Once each staff member knows there specific duty, it will be much easier for them to follow schedules, and fulfill their orders.
Routine Inspections
You may be doing a good job at maintaining robots, keeping on track, and following routines, but you also need to visually inspect your robots on a regular basis. Touch, listen, learn to spot the signs your machines give off to warn you about an impending malfunction.
Work on Checklists
Draw up checklists for the same category of robots. This is a smart way to increase the efficiency of your maintenance procedure. It will simplify the task for your employees, as they work to ensure that none of the vital steps and procedures is left out during the maintenance process.
Document It
Whether it is user manuals, maintenance histories, equipment guidelines, industry standards, or any other information related to your machines, make sure you keep them organized, and documented in a proper way. This can help you defend your claim of due diligence in case you get sued for on-site accident or injuries.
Invest in Training
The world of technology is ever evolving. In order to stay abreast the changes and advancements in maintenance and technological trends, it is wise to ensure you and your staff is properly trained. Conduct, or enroll in regular training sessions to adapt well to the new and at times complex technology
Keep a Critical Eye on Your Process
There is always room for improvement. You can never have a foolproof plan. There will be instances where you come across loopholes in the process, or areas where the procedures lacks something. Review the process, time and again. Work out ways to improve where you lack, or ways to reduce small issues that keep arising that are inherent to the plan.
Following these tips can help you be on top of the preventive maintenance of your robots. Remember, the better maintained they are, the better they will operate. If you wish to replace your used robots, contact us! We buy used robots. You can also find used industrial robots for sale here, in case you’re interested.