PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
Predictive Maintenance Pain Points in Packaging Machinery KIM OVERSTREET, SENIOR CONTENT STRATEGIST, ALIGNMENT, PMMI MEDIA GROUP TOP THREE TAKEAWAYS 1. Predictive maintenance can help avoid unplanned downtime.
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2. Some packaging machines are more “downtime-prone” than others.
redictive maintenance is the ability to monitor a machine, or machine component, and avoid unplanned downtime by foreseeing machine failure and allowing the opportunity to take preventative action. The possibility of machine failure shutting down a production line ranks high on most manufacturing managers’ list of worries, and report research showed that manufacturing managers at CPG companies consider their packaging machines to be more prone to downtime than the other types of machines they use. According to PMMI’s Packaging and Predictive Maintenance, most of the predictive maintenance solutions currently on the market are designed to monitor critical assets such as AC induction motors, pumps, and gearboxes; and they tend to be based on vibration sensor solutions.
3. Washdown areas represent an additional challenge.
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