Why Purchase a Maintenance Contract?

There is a growing trend in packaging plants to cut back on non-essential personnel. So many large companies are down-sizing their production floor workers to keep only those necessary to keep the lines running. Unfortunately, there is often a price to pay for that decision. If a company no longer staffs in-house maintenance personnel, there is no one taking care of the machinery.

Just like your vehicle needs regular tune-ups, packaging machines need regular maintenance. While the operator may know how to turn on the machine and clear jams and change over runs, he or she probably doesn’t know everything they should to keep the machines in tip top shape. This is where a Preventive Maintenance Contract with the OEM can add real value to the operation. The machines will get the vital maintenance and the operators will get additional training.

At New England Machinery, we offer Preventive Maintenance Contracts that are custom designed to give the most benefit to the production facility based on the number of machines, changeovers, and shifts. In addition, the contracts offer discount on wear parts, machine evaluation/audits, allow for budgeted annual maintenance, increase machinery efficiencies and life, decrease downtime due to poor maintenance, and additional training for operators and maintenance workers.

Check with your OEM to see if they offer Preventive Maintenance Contracts. This could save your company a lot of money in the long run.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.