{"id":4262,"date":"2013-05-08T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:18:15","slug":"the-importance-of-forklift-preventive-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/forklifts\/the-importance-of-forklift-preventive-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Forklift Preventive Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Preventive<\/a>Too often big business tries to cut back on doing preventive maintenance<\/a> in attempts to cut back on overhead. Small to\u00a0medium\u00a0sized business will often try to do the same. This is a huge mistake and ends up costing more in the long run. In this post we will discuss the advantages of preventive maintenance (PM) and how not participating in a PM program in regards to your equipment is the same as just breaking it yourself.<\/p>\n

Gaining Control of the Situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preventive maintenance is the foundation of any maintenance strategy. Having a\u00a0strategy\u00a0in place means that you schedule 80% of your maintenance at least a week in advance without losing any equipment. Some of you are thinking this is impossible because you would need an extra forklift<\/a> as the ones you are currently using are going nearly 24\/7 as it is. No, you do not need an extra, you are already short one.<\/p>\n

If you track such things, look at the man hours you have lost to down equipment. Riding your trucks hard and leaving
\nthem hung up wet, serves no one. The efficiency\u00a0gained by the company in running hard are at least offset by the unplanned down maintenance periods. Often the number add up the other way, showing that some PM work could have saved a lot of money.<\/p>\n

Options Exist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having a truck that can rotate through your line up is often a great idea. The key is to schedule your maintenance<\/a> so that by the time your “spare” gets through the line-up, it is ready for\u00a0maintenance\u00a0its self. This way your maintenance crew or outsourced maintenance service has an opportunity to fix issues before they can arise and impact your over all productivity. If nothing else, plan on rentals when you overhaul or will have a truck down for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n

What You Get for Your Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did we mention increased overall productivity? In addition to having a steady production of work, you can also see safety increase. Often, “going until it breaks” could mean anything could break. This is not a safe attitude to have. Every accident that does not happen not only keeps employees safe, but saves the company money in workers compensation and insurance payments.<\/p>\n

If you are starting a new program, get with your local maintenance and rental facility. The people there will be able to help you come up with and\u00a0implement\u00a0a foolproof solution to increase your maintenance\u00a0efficiency, thus increase productivity and your bottom line. Any of the professionals at Bahrns\u00a0<\/a>will be glad to give you a hand on coming up with the right maintenance plan for your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too often big business tries to cut back on doing preventive maintenance in attempts to cut back on overhead. Small to\u00a0medium\u00a0sized business will often try to do the same. This is a huge mistake and ends up costing more in the long run. In this post we will discuss the advantages of preventive maintenance (PM) … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[6,1078,1079,347],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forklifts","category-warehouse-dock-equipment","tag-forklift","tag-forklifts","tag-material-handling","tag-material-handling-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12859,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}