The importance of performing scheduled Preventive Maintenance (PM ) on robots and other industrial equipment is often overlooked when seeking cost reductions and productivity improvements. In fact, properly scheduled and performed PMs can dramatically decrease parts usage, reduce operating costs, improve mean time between failures and improve the overall life expectancy of the robot and its components.
We employ many former OEM service engineers/ technicians and specially trained technicians throughout the United States. ATS provides a cost effective alternative solution to the OEM. ATS can provide a customized solution ranging from diagnostic, repair and debug to basic annual standard PMs to a complete turnkey PM program which would include scheduling, requisitioning parts and tracking ATS progress and work order history via a customized CMMS.
PM activities include:
Clean and lube articulation joints
Inspect and verify operation of end effectors
Inspect control panels
Inspect cables
Inspect mechanical components
Inspect and clean remote control panel & pendants
Backup and archive machine programs and parameters
Prepare exception report depicting abnormal components or specifications
Present report to customer maintenance supervision.
The next time you “re-schedule” a PM or have a failure, call the Specialized Reliability Solutions group at ATS and let us help you avoid more of the same in the future.