A machine does not stop for lack of a spare part. It stops because nobody knew it was due.
Every unit has its schedule and its date. The problem is never the schedule: it is that the date lives in a spreadsheet that gets opened late, and that what was done to the iron is spread between a folder, a chat and the memory of whoever was there that day. PAIR puts both things on the unit’s record.
What stops a scheduled maintenance from happening
- The schedule exists and so does the date, but they live in a spreadsheet that gets opened when somebody remembers. A unit can go twenty-nine days without maintenance and show up on no screen.
- When the machine fails, the first question is what was done to it and when. The answer is in three places and none of them is the unit.
- The machine goes out on loan with a photo and comes back with a dent. Without both ends of the same form, the conversation about who did it cannot be won.
Five things that change in the first month
- 01
The next date stops living in the spreadsheet
- Today
- The maintenance manager keeps the schedule and the next date in a spreadsheet that gets opened late.
- With PAIR
- Every unit with its cadence and its date, and the site list ordered by what falls due first. The one nobody gave a plan shows grey, not green: it is not up to date, it is unwatched.
- 02
The maintenance that is due becomes a task with an owner
- Today
- Nobody creates it: the maintenance depends on somebody remembering the date in time.
- With PAIR
- The task with its owner and its due date, and the notice to the owner, queued at birth and delivered by grouped email at the frequency that person chose. If the task for that maintenance already exists, another one is not born.
- 03
Everything ever done to the unit, on a single sheet
- Today
- What was done to the unit is spread between a folder, a chat and somebody’s memory.
- With PAIR
- The history per unit, newest to oldest, with who filled in each one. What was deleted does not count as history, and restoring it brings it back on its own.
- 04
The unit that cannot be operated, said where people look
- Today
- The supervisor says out loud that the unit is out of service, and the operator may never hear it.
- With PAIR
- The mark with its date, its written reason —there is a minimum: «broken» does not pass— and the name of whoever set it. While it stands, no work is loaded onto the unit, and not even the pre-use check lifts it: it has to be removed by hand, and that leaves a trace.
- 05
The machine on the way out and the machine on the way back, field against field
- Today
- Whoever hands over and whoever receives the machine rely on a loose photo on a phone.
- With PAIR
- The two photos of the same field side by side and the list of what changed. If somebody handed over a machine that had already been handed over, it is written down who forced it and over what.
What you start with
- Scheduled maintenance plan, with its cadence in days and its owner
- Mobile equipment pre-use check, per shift or per day
- Fault report, with owner and deadline
And many more, built around your operation. Ask us.
Demo
Bring us the schedule for one of your units
The maintenance schedule and the pre-use check you use today, Excel included: in thirty minutes you see them on a unit’s record, with its next date and its owner.
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