Preventative maintenance is critical for anything to function properly. We do it for our cars by taking them in for regular checkups and even for ourselves by making annual trips to the doctor or the dentist. This is deemed necessary to do for any equipment we use as well, including our warehouse equipment.
Without regular checkups, equipment can start to experience some issues and malfunction. Let’s examine what issues your warehouse equipment could encounter without regular preventative maintenance.
How Preventative Maintenance Help Your Bottom Line
The most important thing a preventative maintenance program does for you is it saves you money. It also helps you by preventing workplace injuries, which can be costly in itself. Equipment that doesn’t work properly will harm employees and damage your product.
An injury to an employee could also impact the productivity and morale of everyone else on the team. Keeping up with your equipment also means you will need to replace parts less often, and needed repairs will cost less as well.
What is Part of Preventative Maintenance?
There are many areas that preventative maintenance can check, but there are four specific actions that maintenance checkups should include:
A thorough inspection – any preventative maintenance should start with a complete inspection of the equipment, to ensure your tech knows where to start.
Equipment adjustment – if adjustments or returns to factory settings are required, this should happen during a regular equipment checkup.
Lubrication – if equipment needs lubricant to operate properly, more should be applied during a routine checkup.
Replacement of worn parts – preventative maintenance checkups are designed to find parts that show signs of wear and replace them before they break.
What Equipment Should be Checked During a Preventative Maintenance Checkup?
The rule of thumb to follow, is that anything with moving parts should have regularly scheduled maintenance. In a warehouse setting, these are some of the areas that you should prioritize:
Overhead Coiling Doors
Make sure your overhead coiling doors continue to open/close correctly and that they are doing their job; helping maintain a clean work environment and a consistent temperature.
Sectional Overhead Doors
Regular checkups will make sure the sectional overhead doors in your facility still open/close properly. It will also allow you to spot damaged sections and repair/replace them promptly.
Loading Dock Equipment
The loading dock is a huge hub for activity. If the equipment in this area is not operational, accidents can happen. Examples of equipment found in this area are dock levelers, dock seals and shelters, vehicle restraints, and communication equipment.
Security Gates, Security Grilles, and Security Shutters
Conducting regular checkups on security equipment will make sure they are in working order and doing precisely as intended for your warehouse, providing security.
Contact Authority Dock & Door to Learn More About Their Preventative Maintenance Programs
Preventative maintenance programs are critical to any warehouse’s operations. Not only do these programs help improve your bottom line, but they also keep your facility safe and your workers happy. Why wait until there is a problem to fix it? Get your preventative maintenance checkup scheduled today.
