Asset inspection programs
A comprehensive asset inspection program measures the condition of your spindles, ball screws, motors, and robots on a schedule, trends the results, and flags what is heading toward failure — so the repair happens on a planned shutdown instead of in the middle of a production run.
The cost of finding out the hard way
Every repair on this site can be done two ways. It can be done on a Saturday during a planned shutdown, with the part already staged and a replacement in place while the original is on the bench. Or it can be done at two in the morning on the day it fails, with a line stopped and someone calling everyone they can find.
The work is identical. The cost is not. The difference is not the repair bill — it is the production hours, the expedite fees, the overtime, and the scramble to find capacity at a shop that has no slot open.
An inspection program exists to move as many repairs as possible from the second column into the first.
What gets measured
Failure is progressive and measurable. Each of these has a normal band and a trend, and the trend is what matters — a single reading tells you very little, while the same reading tracked across four visits tells you when to act.
- Baseline condition survey
- Scheduled vibration analysis
- Spindle runout and drawbar pull-force trending
- Ball screw backlash measurement
- Motor insulation resistance trending
- Thermal and temperature monitoring
- Documented findings with severity ranking
What you get
A written report after each visit: current readings, how they compare to the baseline and to the previous visit, and a severity ranking that says plainly what needs attention now, what needs watching, and what is fine.
That report is a budgeting tool as much as a maintenance one. Knowing in March that a spindle will need a rebuild before the end of the year means the money is planned, the shutdown is scheduled, and the shop has the slot booked. Nobody is making that decision at 2am.
Stop discovering failures. Start scheduling them.
Tell us what equipment you run and how hard you run it, and we'll put together an inspection scope and interval that fits it.