Maintenance
Preventive maintenance, operator daily care, troubleshooting, MTBF/MTTR and spare-parts control.
MaintenanceMachine history cards, machine inventory and spare-parts control
What to record for every machine, how to set min/max levels for fast-moving spare parts, and how these records cut downtime and parts cost.
MaintenanceMaintenance KPIs: MTBF, MTTR, downtime and machine availability
How to calculate MTBF, MTTR, availability and downtime %, a worked example for one sewing line, and a weekly maintenance report layout.
MaintenanceSewing machine troubleshooting: tension, skipped stitches, thread breaks and puckering
How to read thread tension from the seam, and a fault-cause-fix table for the problems mechanics see every day on lockstitch, overlock and flatlock machines.
MaintenanceOperator daily machine care (autonomous maintenance) checklist
A start, during and end-of-shift checklist operators can follow in ten minutes a day, how to introduce it with the TPM steps, and how supervisors audit it.
MaintenanceMachine maintenance in garments: breakdown, preventive, predictive and TPM
The four maintenance approaches, what each costs in lost output, and how to build a simple preventive maintenance (PM) plan for sewing machines.