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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