{"id":1247,"date":"2020-08-19T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:19:54","slug":"importance-of-planned-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/importance-of-planned-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Planned Downtime for Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As manufacturers face the pressure of delivery deadlines, planned maintenance usually drops down their priority list. In this informative blog, Intouch Monitoring explains the importance of planned downtime for maintenance and the effects it can have on machines, equipment, and finished products.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><b>What is planned downtime for maintenance?<\/b><\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">Planned maintenance downtime is scheduled time when your production is limited or shut down to allow for planned maintenance. Often with the pressure of delivery deadlines, it is easy for planned maintenance to be pushed down the priority list, and only maintain it when the machine starts breaks down or the quality of the products is being impacted.<\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><b>Why is planned maintenance important?<\/b><\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">Regular planned maintenance\u00a0not only\u00a0safeguards\u00a0the quality\u00a0of\u00a0products produced\u00a0and\u00a0stops unplanned downtime,\u00a0it keeps\u00a0the machines and equipment healthy, which in turns\u00a0extends\u00a0their life span.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">Planned maintenance downtime\u00a0<b>actually reduces the overall amount of machine downtime,<\/b>\u00a0as the machines are kept healthy, decreasing the\u00a0likelihood of unplanned downtime.\u00a0It is also cheaper to maintain machines than to repair them.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeps assets healthy<\/li>\n<li>Improves equipment efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Avoids costly unplanned downtime<\/li>\n<li>Reduces the total time equipment is offline<\/li>\n<li>Extends the lifespan of equipment\/machinery due to regular maintenance<\/li>\n<li>As more downtime is scheduled, the amount of maintenance needed will decrease<\/li>\n<li>Costs less than unplanned downtime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><b>How can an Intouch system help schedule your downtime?<\/b><\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intouchmonitoring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intouch<\/a> systems can help you plan your maintenance downtime in three\u00a0ways:<\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">1) Intouch provides a\u00a0<b>scheduling\/planning<\/b>\u00a0module that makes it easy to plan downtime at a time which will have the\u00a0least\u00a0adverse\u00a0effect on your production.<\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">2) Intouch\u2019s<b>\u00a0reporting and analytics<\/b>\u00a0module\u00a0lets you analyse the data to\u00a0decide the\u00a0optimum regularity\u00a0that a machine needs maintaining<\/span><span class=\"xeop\"><span style=\"color: red;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xparagraph\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">3) Intouch\u2019s monitoring schedule\u00a0provides constant monitoring of the machines. The data collected is<span style=\"color: red;\">\u00a0<\/span>accurate and warns you far more in advance than humanly collated and analysed data would. This allows you to fix things before they become a costly issue.<\/span><span class=\"xeop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can give companies a regular opportunity to collect data about their assets<\/li>\n<li>Can detect problems and resolve them without disruption<\/li>\n<li>Reduction of overall downtime<\/li>\n<li>Leads to greater quality products<\/li>\n<li>With no unplanned downtime, you can meet your delivery promises<\/li>\n<li>Overall improvement in OEE and profits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"xnormaltextrun\">For more information about Intouch&#8217;s systems, contact them below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchmonitoring.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyloaded alignnone wp-image-29994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo-300x78.jpg 300w\" alt=\"intouch logo\" width=\"182\" height=\"47\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo-300x78.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.plastikmedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intouch-logo.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchmonitoring.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Intouch Monitoring<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:+44 (0) 1604 537100\"><em>+44 (0) 1604 537100<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchmonitoring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Website<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:info@intouchmonitoring.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Email<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As manufacturers face the pressure of delivery deadlines, planned maintenance usually drops down their priority list. In this informative blog, Intouch Monitoring explains the importance of planned downtime for maintenance and the effects it can have on machines, equipment, and finished products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plastikcity-blogs","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastikcity.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}