5 Expert Tips For Drip Bag Coffee Packaging Machine Maintenance
As a professional packaging equipment in the coffee industry, the drip bag coffee packaging machine is often expensive to purchase. Therefore, how to extend the service life and maintain its high performance and stable operation is very important to you. Good maintenance can make the packaging machine serve you for more years, help you recover the cost of purchasing, and create more benefits for you. In order to achieve maximum production capacity, we provide you with five expert suggestions to help you understand how to maintain the drip bag coffee packaging machine.
First: Follow the preventive maintenance schedule
Preventive maintenance is the first element to prolong the service life of the machine. Regular maintenance of the drip bag coffee packaging machine can ensure the best output efficiency. After the packaging machine is installed, it is vital to develop and follow a preventive maintenance plan.
The machine maintenance plan is designed to prevent minor problems and major disasters, thereby reducing unplanned downtime. Preventive maintenance tasks include:
- Machine inspection before and after production
- Regular monitoring and replacement of wearing parts
- Ensure high-wear parts spare parts inventory
- Lubricate the machine
These preventive maintenance activities usually require a high level of technical training and professional knowledge. Therefore, these operations should be performed by trained specialized maintenance personnel or certified maintenance.
Second: Develop a maintenance plan based on your own production situation
We recommend that you group the operators and maintenance personnel of the drip bag coffee packaging machine according to the human resource allocation of your own production personnel, and formulate and record the maintenance and inspection records according to the groups. And perform maintenance operations based on this record. The task of the operator is to perform routine maintenance according to the maintenance plan, and the maintenance personnel performs targeted maintenance based on the maintenance plan and routine maintenance records.
Their tasks usually include simple visual inspections, and because the operators have performed repeated maintenance tasks on the machine and become more familiar with the packaging machine, they can usually detect when the equipment should be shut down for maintenance before the technician visits
Third: Close cooperation with packaging machine manufacturers
Every second of downtime and maintenance of the drip bag coffee packaging machine is precious. Generally, before purchasing the equipment, you have conducted a proper review of the packaging machine manufacturer to understand its technical service availability, contact information, and detailed information about related costs. This will ensure that you have service personnel to answer your calls or reply emails whenever you need them, and the packaging machine manufacturer has remote capabilities that can access most common problems and troubleshoot without having to do unnecessary and expensive Site visit.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for remote service capabilities as many companies have suspended business travel for several months. Virtual meetings and video conference calls have quickly become a means of saving. No matter what happens in the world, Newideapack Ltd and their customers can use remote video conferences to troubleshoot
packaging machines.
Fourth: Detailed spare parts list
After purchasing the packaging machine, we will provide you with a list of recommended spare parts. The list will subdivide the parts category by wear so that you can strategically plan your parts inventory. For example, in Newideapack Ltd, our parts are classified as follows:
- A-High wear parts. These parts have a short life cycle or are not standard parts, and have a long delivery time.
- B- moderately worn parts. These components have a long life and may or may not fail.
- C- low wear parts. These parts are not prone to wear
We recommend that you keep a stock of high-wear parts to avoid losses due to waiting for spare parts when the equipment is shut down.
Fifth：Upgrade of drip bag coffee packaging machine
Over time, when certain components become obsolete and no longer supported, packaging equipment and software need to be upgraded and sometimes even replaced. Today, technology is developing rapidly, and packaging equipment is no exception. Generally, you need to keep close contact with the packaging equipment manufacturer to learn about necessary or recommended equipment upgrades and to ensure that you receive notifications when specific equipment is phased out. This requires you to develop a proactive plan to upgrade or replace components or software to minimize downtime.
