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Embroidery Maintenance Log

Purpose: To track and schedule maintenance time on embroidery machines.

File Name: MAINTLOG

Format: Single Page, 1 Part

As the old saying goes, an embroidery machine is a terrible thing to waste. Maintaining your embroidery equipment is an on-going and necessary process. Without proper and regular care, your equipment will fail when you need it most. To circumvent that eventuality, a maintenance log helps schedule, remind, and track the maintenance on every machine.

Use: Each machine in your company should have it's own maintenance log, and many companies keep the log for each machine on the same clipboard as the current embroidery log sheet, directly under the embroidery log. The top portion of the log has spaces for regular operator-performed maintenance activities such as oiling hooks, oiling heads, cleaning bobbin cases, and the like. Below each title is the suggested interval at which this operation should be performed. You will want to replace the interval figures on this log with the figures suggested by your embroidery machine manufacturer.

The operator can determine when the next interval for service in each category is due by checking the log entries. Time may be kept by time of day, or many embroidery machines display a "CPU Time" - sort of a running odometer clock. When an appointed task becomes due, the operator performs the task, then makes an entry in the log denoting date and time, a signature or initials, and a check mark in the appropriate column to denote which activity was performed. Since hooks need oiling approximately every 4 hours, entries on the log are frequent, and the log becomes a visual display of which duties need to be performed.

The bottom portion allows the operator to write comments for the company's chief technician to observe, as well as long-term maintenance duties such as biannual greasing. As each log is filled up, it is best to try to keep logs for a specific machine filed together in chronological order for reference when troubleshooting problems. Viewing the maintenance log - especially the comments section -  can help technicians spot the early symptoms of a problem.

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