Be sure to visit our knowledge Center - http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Innovative IDM 1625 Wallace Drive, Ste. 110 Carrollton, Texas 75006 Call: 877-906-2100 Hi, I’m Gene Gray. Welcome to Innovative-IDM’s intergalactic headquarters. Are you a manufacturing facility plant with automated machinery, conveyors, and robots, all kinds of things spinning around and moving? Well, you’ve got to keep it up and running. Sometimes that’s a stressful thing to do, and expensive. So, let’s talk about a couple ways that Buzz and I have been discussing that can potentially help you stretch your maintenance dollar, get the most out of that buck, help your budget go just a little bit further. Now, it’s important that when you talk about stretching your maintenance budget that you think about your supply chain. It’s not just the cost of parts, anybody’s going to tell you that that’s important, sure that’s important, but it’s not the most important, but it’s not unimportant. Now I’ve been in this business since 1989 and I’ve found by visiting many different factories that they’re all different, they don’t have the same capabilities. Some of them have different styles of maintenance teams heavier in mechanical or electrical, some have engineering departments, and some don’t have any of that. So what do you do, how do you keep it up and running? Well, one of the things you need to do is preventative maintenance programs and most of you probably know, do those right now, some of you have heard about it, when you have that pm program are you using hot spares? I mean you’ve got that spare sitting over there on the shelf when you bought it but the last time you had a controlled shut down did you install it, take out the other one you know was working fine, to make sure the spare actually works? To make sure that your maintenance people do have the skill set to practice putting that in, in a break down situation. If not, you might want to do that. When something that’s expensive breaks, you want to stretch your dollar, get it repaired, send it to Innovative-IDM we have an in house electronic repair department. Now if you’re one of those plants that don’t have all the resources that you need, maybe you’ve got a controlled shut down coming up, and you have a big project and you need some field service staff. Well outsource it. Innovative has a 24/7/365 field service team. We can send you the extra boots you need to get on the ground to get that project done. Maybe the thing that’s broke down or the problem that your having is too complicated for the staff you have, or like we’ve talked about maybe that guys on vacation, well give us a call we’d be happy to help you out. Now you really want to get the most out of this dollar, you don’t want to call Innovative just when you’re broke down, give us a shout so we can get out there, you can meet our field service team techs before that ever happens, we can get to know your machines, we can get to know your processes, that way if it’s in the middle of the night, production uptime is super important, we can be efficient as a team mate. Now putting together a company that’s got field service technicians, a repair center, things that we can help you with from an outsourcing perspective, to make sure that your supply chain is playing a part in stretching your budget, why would we go through the trouble to do something like that? Huh Buzz why would we do that? Well Buzz knows it’s simple it’s Innovative, we’re the Home of the Legendary Customer Experience.

• published: 20 Aug 2014
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