Breakdown history is in people's heads
Build a useful machine history from real incidents.
01 · What is usually happening?
Ask which machine breaks most and the senior technician can tell you, from memory. Ask for the dates, causes and costs, and there is nothing to show.
Without a record, the business cannot see patterns, plan spares or make a case for replacing a machine.
The question people usually ask“How often does this machine break?”
The more useful question“What failed, when, for how long and at what cost, for every machine?”
02 · Common causes
- 01Breakdowns are fixed first and recorded never
- 02No simple way for a technician to record quickly
- 03Downtime and cost are not captured
- 04Different people use different words for the same fault
- 05Records, where they exist, are on paper in different places
- 06Nobody reviews the history together
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01Every breakdown is recorded as it is fixed.
- 02Recording takes under a minute.
- 03Hours lost and parts used are captured.
- 04The same words are used for the same fault.
- 05The top causes are reviewed every month.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: Repeat faults are never fixed and replacement decisions are guesses.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
Breakdown history is in people's heads
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- Maintenance
What it can lead to: Repeat faults are never fixed and replacement decisions are guesses.
lamplamp could record a breakdown from a technician's voice note.
06 · Related processesBreakdown to recovery
Related guidesOne machine breakdown affecting the weekly dispatch plan
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could record a breakdown from a technician's voice note.
- lamp could add hours lost and parts used from what is said.
- lamp could show which machine and fault cost the most.
- lamp could suggest a preventive step for a repeat fault.
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