Machine breakdowns keep disrupting production
Track downtime, affected jobs, spares and recovery together.
01 · What is usually happening?
A machine stops. The technician is called, the spare is searched for, and the supervisor moves people around. By evening nobody has written down what happened.
The same machine stops again next month for the same reason.
The question people usually ask“When will it run?”
The more useful question“What failed, which jobs are affected, and how do we stop it happening again?”
02 · Common causes
- 01Preventive maintenance postponed for production
- 02Critical spares not stocked
- 03Breakdowns not recorded with cause
- 04One technician knows the machine
- 05Service vendor not under any agreement
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01Breakdown logged with time, cause and fix.
- 02Affected jobs moved or customers told.
- 03Critical spares listed and stocked.
- 04Preventive maintenance done on schedule.
- 05Repeat failures reviewed monthly.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: Lost hours, overtime and late orders.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
Machine breakdowns
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- Maintenance
- Machine
- Production
- Order
What it can lead to: Lost hours, overtime and late orders.
lamplamp can remind technicians of due maintenance and check spares.
Related guidesHow to identify production bottlenecks
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could remind technicians of due maintenance.
- lamp could check critical spares stock.
- lamp could list jobs affected by a breakdown.
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