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How to control the cost of equipment maintenance?

2026-01-22 16:57310
 Equipment management, as an important part of enterprise management, has shifted from the emphasis on production service and the pursuit of a higher rate of equipment integrity in the past to the focus on the economic benefits of the enterprise. The equipment management work is required to pay attention to the management and control of maintenance costs, to achieve the highest equipment availability with the least maintenance costs. With the increasing severity of the energy shortage, energy conservation and consumption reduction have become one of the important tasks of printing enterprises, aiming to improve economic benefits. Printing is a complex integrated operation process, and to achieve lean management, the equipment management part is also a link that cannot be ignored, and the control of equipment maintenance costs is also a big issue!
  1. Emphasize the procurement management of equipment
  
  The purchase of equipment is extremely important in terms of selection. If its reliability is high and its maintainability is good, the cost of maintenance of the equipment in the later period will be greatly reduced.
 
  In addition, it is necessary to select a unified model of equipment, which is convenient for spare parts reserve, universal exchange, and also convenient for the organization of maintenance, saving inventory costs. The good or bad of equipment selection determines the amount of equipment life cycle cost.
 
  Second, choose the appropriate maintenance method.
 
   How to adjust the relationship between production and market, production and maintenance is very important. Not paying attention to maintenance, production is arbitrary, and the basic conditions of equipment management and maintenance can not be guaranteed in organization, capital and time, which will inevitably lead to equipment neglect, equipment intact condition decline, and then affect the equipment efficiency, resulting in an increase in equipment maintenance costs. Improve the traditional methods of equipment three-level maintenance, major and medium overhaul, etc. that have been used for a long time. It should be organized by a special person to maintain a reasonable time. For major and medium overhaul and other planned preventive maintenance system, it is changed to flexible item repair and maintenance.
 
  Three, improve the effective working rate of equipment
 
  Poor equipment performance, low efficiency, and excessive idleness are also invisible wastes of equipment assets, leading to increased costs. To address this, it is important to improve the effective utilization rate of equipment, implement management systems such as "responsibility and maintenance" and " annual assessment system for maintenance personnel", and strengthen the construction of equipment management incentive mechanisms and self-discipline mechanisms for maintenance personnel. Organize activities such as equipment integrity management, "five leaks" rectification, and elimination of "seven harmful behaviors" in operation and maintenance. The improvement of the effective utilization rate of equipment has significantly reduced the unit maintenance cost.
 
  IV. Careful maintenance and care of equipment
 
  Careful and meticulous maintenance, correct operation, reasonable use, and meticulous maintenance can prevent abnormal wear and damage of equipment parts, extend the interval between repairs, and reduce maintenance costs. At present, there are mainly two forms of maintenance waste: one is the lack of maintenance of equipment. This is due to the lack of equipment inspection items, inaccurate prediction or lack of funds, the lack of attention to equipment, and the phenomenon of equipment repair caused by the competition for equipment. The other is excessive maintenance. This is due to the excessive maintenance arrangements for equipment, and the excessive pursuit of the integrity of equipment performance, such as the demand for repairing old as new, and the demand for excessive functions, resulting in maintenance waste.
 
   5. Perfect the rules and regulations
 
  Perfecting a scientific and reasonable equipment management system and regulations has a significant impact on costs. Cost management is the core of business management and also the focus of equipment management. To eliminate and reduce the management loopholes,账物不符, maintenance and repair not in place, equipment operation with illness, violation of operation and other forms of waste in equipment management and maintenance work, and to improve the awareness of all staff. The company's equipment management department has formulated management systems such as the management regulations for maintenance costs, the reporting and handling system for abnormal damage parts and equipment accidents, and the appraisal and reward regulations for the repair of old parts, safety operation procedures, maintenance specifications, and inspection and maintenance records according to the actual situation of statistical maintenance costs, and has strengthened the system construction of equipment management.
 
  6. Establish scientific and advanced technical and economic indicators.
 
  1. The indicators are the basis for guiding, inspecting, and evaluating various business, technical, and economic activities and their economic effects. Indicators can be divided into single technical and economic indicators and comprehensive indicators, and can also be divided into quantitative and qualitative indicators. The main functions of indicators are: to quantitatively evaluate the performance of management work; to play a supervisory, regulatory, and guiding role in the management process; to play an incentive and promotional role.
 
  2. The technical and economic indicators of equipment management are a set of interrelated and interdependent indicators that can comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of equipment management. The technical indicators of equipment management are an important part of the goals of equipment management work. Equipment management work involves various aspects such as funds, materials, labor organization, technology, economy, and production and operation goals. To inspect and measure the management level of each link and the operating effect of equipment assets, it is necessary to establish and improve the technical and economic indicator system for equipment management.
 
  The maintenance quota is valuable for a comprehensive measure of the labor organization, material, technical equipment, and repair technology level of maintenance, and should continue to be used, but the maintenance quota coefficient should be formulated, and revised and supplemented at any time.
 
  Equipment integrity rate, as the main assessment index of the technical condition of equipment, is still valid and can be continued to be used at present. However, in the specific operation, the qualitative clauses of the integrity standard should be studied and improved to reduce the influence of subjective factors; or the calculation of the index should be improved to ensure the accuracy of the index.
 
  7. Strengthen cost management education.
 
  1. In order to control the expenditure of maintenance costs, a maintenance and spare parts control group participated by engineers was established, and special regulations were formulated for the spare parts requisition procedure and the identification and handling of abnormal damaged parts.
 
  2. In order to adapt to the market situation, the maintenance personnel actively participated and cooperated with the factory department to optimize the allocation of raw and auxiliary materials. They actively adjusted the equipment to adapt to various raw and auxiliary materials under the premise of basically not increasing the cost, so that the optimization work could be carried out smoothly.
 
  3. Carry out cost education activities. In order to do a good job in cost management, special meetings are held to study and analyze the issues of expenses, discuss various countermeasures, and often make special explanations and requirements at daily production meetings, and special training has been carried out in combination with the assessment of maintenance workers, so that the cost management work can be deepened.
 
  8. Advocate the repair and utilization of old items, and save energy and reduce consumption.
 
  1. In order to reduce maintenance costs, give full play to and mobilize the enthusiasm of maintenance personnel, and formulate special appraisal procedures and reward and punishment measures for the repair of old parts and the damage of parts.
 
  2. Reducing consumption and lowering production costs are also the main content of equipment management. The consumption of raw materials is mostly realized on the equipment. The poor condition of the equipment will increase the consumption of raw materials; in terms of energy consumption, the equipment accounts for a larger proportion. Strengthening equipment management, improving the efficiency of equipment operation, and reducing equipment energy consumption are important means to save energy. In the process of equipment operation, in order to maintain the normal operation of the equipment, a certain amount of material consumption is also required. Equipment generally have spare parts and vulnerable parts. If the consumption of parts is large, the equipment maintenance cost will be high.
 
  9. Strengthen technical improvement work.
 
   Technical improvement is of special importance for perfecting equipment performance and reducing maintenance costs. Carry out technical research activities vigorously, make minor changes and reforms, eliminate the inherent defects in equipment, improve the stability and efficiency of system work, greatly reduce the workload of inspection and maintenance, and save a lot of maintenance costs every year.
 
  10. Establish a monitoring system to focus on the economic management of equipment.
 
  Analysis of past maintenance costs is mostly conducted at the end, which is a post-event analysis and can no longer meet the requirements of the market economy. At present, enterprises should not simply engage in post-event analysis, but should strengthen the promotion of cost prediction analysis, that is, combine planned analysis, prediction analysis and post-event actual analysis, and establish a complete analysis and budget system.
 
  Establish an effective equipment monitoring system. By controlling the equipment project, reduce unnecessary new equipment investment; by signing the technical agreement, ensure the after-sales service of equipment; by controlling and assessing the maintenance cost of equipment during its service life, strengthen the maintenance of equipment, equipment maintenance technology research and development, control of purchased spare parts, and the utilization of old spare parts; by equipment adjustment, transfer, and scrapping and reuse, optimize the allocation of equipment resources and revitalize idle assets; by equipment maintenance technology supervision and assessment, strengthen the research and development of maintenance technology, and ensure that equipment is basically in a good condition; do a good job in comprehensive balance, and maintain the optimization of equipment management and equipment resource allocation.

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