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Six Ways Outsourced Maintenance Saves

A Proactive Service Support

Fri, 04/09/2010 - 13:38
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With today’s limited internal resources, it’s tough to transform machine maintenance from reactionary to preventive, and ultimately proactive, despite the obvious upsides in higher overall equipment efficiency (OEE), better process control, and lower total cost. Outsourcing this requirement to a third-party specialist, however, is a cost-effective alternative, according to companies that have crunched the numbers.

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Manufacturers of all sizes—from single plant to multiplant and multinational—can benefit from outsourced maintenance to achieve world-class productivity and competitiveness. There are six primary areas where a single-source maintenance partner can optimize the capital investment and provide cost savings through lower total cost of ownership and increased return on investment.

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Machine tool experts can analyze the tasks assigned to each machine and provide recommendations on process improvements, cycle-time reduction strategies, proper cutting tools, and work-holding configurations to optimize machine usage and performance, and reduce work in process, setup times and costs per part.

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