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Hi everyone,
during our recent surveillance audit I received a minor non-conformance against Preventive and Predictive Maintenance requirement.
The write up is at follows:
The organization does not always ensure evidence of all Preventive and Predictive Maintenance requirements. Evidence of Predictive Maintenance where not able to be verified at time of Audit. (Tool Repair tracking sheet not up to date).
Few years back I started to keep track of our steel rule Die's that we maintenance ourselves, i.e Punches changed, rule changed, etc. But then with the slow down and down sizing in our Company, and people wearing more hats, I neglected to enter information into the log, therefor the write-up.
Now I want to make the log more simple, instead of this massive spreadsheet with this abundance of information as too Punch change, rule change, soldering etc, and just focus on how many parts are being produced of the Die before it is brought to the Tool room for repairs.
Our Tool guy says in general you can run approx.4500 parts of a die, before it needs any maintenance. Okay sounds good, but I don't want to answer the NC by giving a specific number and say that the tool needs to go to the tool room and be fixed. Because if the tool runs good, and parts are good, beyond the 4500 part mark, I am not going to a) have the Operator stop and tear her setup down, and b) my experience with a set number, if we are not right on the money and my CB comes in and audits and let's say we ran 4510 parts of the Die, it will result in a NC.
Then I have to take in consideration that every Operator runs different and also the Press(es) the Die's can be ran at.
I also don't want to hand our Operators another piece of paper for them to record the info. Papers can be lost easily, something could be forgotten to be recorded etc.
So my solution to this is, that I can record the Die #, date and amount of parts ran at First Piece Inspection ( I have all the above Info on the Shop order ) and just enter it on a Spreadsheet there.
When the Die does have to go to the Tool room, currently the Press Operators affix a Die repair tag to it, circle what needs to be done, what Press it came from and date. I can match the info to that and then add the parts total and eventually get some more current results to when to do Preventive maintenance.
My question is, does this sound simple enough, or am I'm making more work for myself? I mean with the log I had started, it just got bigger and bigger, but I couldn't really get no good results, and I don't want that to happen again. Any advise would be appreciated.
P.S Sorry this is so long.
during our recent surveillance audit I received a minor non-conformance against Preventive and Predictive Maintenance requirement.
The write up is at follows:
The organization does not always ensure evidence of all Preventive and Predictive Maintenance requirements. Evidence of Predictive Maintenance where not able to be verified at time of Audit. (Tool Repair tracking sheet not up to date).
Few years back I started to keep track of our steel rule Die's that we maintenance ourselves, i.e Punches changed, rule changed, etc. But then with the slow down and down sizing in our Company, and people wearing more hats, I neglected to enter information into the log, therefor the write-up.
Now I want to make the log more simple, instead of this massive spreadsheet with this abundance of information as too Punch change, rule change, soldering etc, and just focus on how many parts are being produced of the Die before it is brought to the Tool room for repairs.
Our Tool guy says in general you can run approx.4500 parts of a die, before it needs any maintenance. Okay sounds good, but I don't want to answer the NC by giving a specific number and say that the tool needs to go to the tool room and be fixed. Because if the tool runs good, and parts are good, beyond the 4500 part mark, I am not going to a) have the Operator stop and tear her setup down, and b) my experience with a set number, if we are not right on the money and my CB comes in and audits and let's say we ran 4510 parts of the Die, it will result in a NC.
Then I have to take in consideration that every Operator runs different and also the Press(es) the Die's can be ran at.
I also don't want to hand our Operators another piece of paper for them to record the info. Papers can be lost easily, something could be forgotten to be recorded etc.
So my solution to this is, that I can record the Die #, date and amount of parts ran at First Piece Inspection ( I have all the above Info on the Shop order ) and just enter it on a Spreadsheet there.
When the Die does have to go to the Tool room, currently the Press Operators affix a Die repair tag to it, circle what needs to be done, what Press it came from and date. I can match the info to that and then add the parts total and eventually get some more current results to when to do Preventive maintenance.
My question is, does this sound simple enough, or am I'm making more work for myself? I mean with the log I had started, it just got bigger and bigger, but I couldn't really get no good results, and I don't want that to happen again. Any advise would be appreciated.
P.S Sorry this is so long.
but the purpose of writing here is that, I am also looking for some "paper-based" preventive and other types of Equipment Maintenance Formats. If someone could held it would be highly appreciated.
