SPECIAL FOCUS: PLANT ENGINEERING
EVALUATING EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE
Track key determining factors in the decision to refurbish or upgrade machinery. JOE CRAIG, CUSTOMER PRODUCTIVITY MANAGER, WHEELABRATOR PLUS, LAGRANGE, GEORGIA
problems emerge. Machines also can underperform due to operational practice, process parameters and lack of proper attention. As operators and maintenance
E Wheel blast equipment is one of the top consumable cost centers in metalcasting. 30 | MODERN CASTING October 2013
personnel change over time, poor practice can creep in. Too often, efforts to save money can result in losing track of quality and the assorted incremental operational cost: unnecessary down- time, productivity loss, higher main- tenance cost, lower margins and, in the worst cases, possible liability if the process is not controlled. Despite these potentially dramatic
implications, lack of time and resources translates to: “Tere’s just no capacity to invest in prevention.” Poorly per- forming equipment has to run longer to meet desired output, leaving no time for maintenance.
Understand What Has Changed Poor equipment performance
can seem like a daunting obstacle.
quipment doesn’t last forever. Over time, through normal wear and tear,
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