The Maintenance Manual is used as guideline to give service on machines. When machines are bought a maintenance manual is included. When you produce a machine yourselves you have to make one. The Maintenance manual is made based on experiences, you don’t know on forehand which parts will wear out fastest. An estimation needs to be made which can be adjusted later on.

When to use

Each machine needs service, the Maintenance Manual states when this is necessary. The maintenance manual is set-up in the β-phase and gets its final form in the mass production phase.

• to maintenance the machine weekly, monthly or yearly
• to follow adjustment procedures

Description

The Maintenance Manual states when service needs to be done and gives adjustment procedures. It happens that something crashes in a machine. The adjustment procedure help you to get the machine back in production as fast as possible.