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Preventative maintenance is all about identifying and avoiding defects and deviations before they cause problems and expensive breakdowns. Routines are critical to safe maintenance work. But how can you ensure your operators know the maintenance for every piece of machinery AND that they carried out the checks?

There is an increased awareness and acceleration within the heavy industries on how ‘Routine Maintenance’ workflows should replace traditional reactive maintenance methods for the upkeep of equipment and the wellbeing of personnel. Routine Maintenance when done well can form the backbone of any well-functioning system, whether it’s a piece of machinery, a vehicle, or even a building.

Within the Heavy Industry and particularly the Heavy Machinery segment, regulatory compliance is often not just a legal requirement, but a fundamental aspect of sustainable business practices. Whether you’re a manufacturer of heavy machinery or an operator, staying abreast of regulatory requirements is paramount to success. Failure to comply can result in severe consequences ranging from hefty fines to reputational damage and even operational shutdowns.

Setting up SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for crucial tasks is an effective way to ensure safe and consistent work methods across your heavy industry sites. At least if your SOPs are available, relevant, and easy to use for frontline workers – which is, unfortunately, not always the case. This article offers you eight best practices that will help improve SOP compliance by adapting your instructions to suit the people who depend most on them. 

To run a profitable business, you need to optimize the use of critical resources such as equipment, energy, and manpower. One of the most important elements of resource optimization in heavy industries is downtime reduction. The key to success? Proactivity. 

By optimizing the utilization of your resources, your business can increase your operational efficiency, reduce your carbon footprint, and cut costs. This comprehensive article covers various aspects of resource optimization, primarily in a heavy industry context. You’ll learn about everything from the definition of common terms to the benefits of implementing digital technology in your frontline teams.  Table of contents: 

If your business relies on skilled and experienced frontline workers, you’re probably struggling with the same challenges as many of your industry peers: How can you replace the generation of workers now reaching retirement age? And how do you ensure you don’t lose the valuable knowledge they’ve gathered through the years?

Where there’s a lack of communication between frontline workers and management in a heavy industry company, there’s also a lack of cooperation and mutual understanding. By successfully bridging this gap, your business won’t only improve workplace safety and employee engagement. You’ll also save vast amounts of money.

Data-driven optimization through digital tools has helped Swerock – a major Swedish construction material supplier – reduce their maintenance costs per produced metric ton by a third. Find out why Swerock’s Project Director Payman Namvar has chosen a somewhat unusual setup for his team’s maintenance work, and why he considers CheckProof the most modern maintenance system on the market today.

Continuous improvement is exactly what it sounds like. You strive towards always doing better, because there’s always room for improvement. The practice lets you identify opportunities for production and equipment optimisation – resulting in higher efficiency and lower costs. The concept itself seems straightforward, but how do you establish a continuous improvement culture for your facility?