Top four benefits of WELDS TRACKER
The 4 biggest benefits of Welds Tracker software:
- Allows maintenance teams to move away from Reactive Maintenance towards pre-planned, Preventive Maintenance (PM).
- Helps weld technicians and maintenance managers prioritize tasks and gain efficiency.
- Helps meet customers Compliance Standards by helping with certifications and audits.
- Builds a culture of accountability, where work is tracked correctly and people take responsibility for their jobs.
1. Stop reacting and start preventing
Consider the following scenario: You come to work in the morning and things are pretty slow. Then, two hours into the work day, there’s a huge emergency. Production stops and the maintenance team go into firefighting mode, running to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Sound familiar? It’s not an ideal situation, but it’s one that pops up way too often. Unfortunately, these spikes in activity are inefficient, stressful, and not part of a sustainable maintenance strategy. The best way to move away from this kind of reactive maintenance is to work towards a preventive maintenance approach—focusing on fixing a machine before it breaks, rather than scrambling to fix it after.
So where does Welds Tracker come in?
- Welds Tracker is a much more advanced and reliable system than keeping track of welders maintenance in a paper inside a binder, or by scheduling tasks in Microsoft Excel. You can set time-based and pro-active tasks prior to the disaster, using notifications, and charts predictions from your Welds Tracker generated reports, so you always know what’s coming up.
- The Welds Tracker lets technicians log a problem, a parameter change or just a weld path change as soon as they execute it. For example, if someone in your facility notices that a specific weld schedule in a given machine requires repetitive modifications, they can escalate it immediately. This lets your team diagnose the problem and repair the machine before it actually breaks down.
2. Gain efficiency
Welds Tracker is the simplest and most effective way to boost the performance of your welders therefor, your maintenance operations in general.
- Reduce paperwork
Technicians spend a lot of time dealing with paperwork— writing up reports, finding missing work requests, and searching for old records. Over time, these activities can seriously chip away at the time they actually spend working.
Welds Tracker keeps all this information in a single, searchable database, which makes finding it much easier. By decreasing the time your team spends on paperwork, you increase the time spent maintaining welding assets.
- Prioritize work
Maintenance teams don’t always have the resources to get 100% of the work done. Instead, it’s more likely that you’re focusing your energy on the most critical repairs and maintenance. Welds Tracker gives the maintenance manager a central view of all upcoming work orders and in-progress jobs, so they can figure out what their biggest priorities are.
3. Be more compliant
Welds Tracker is a great way to help your business pass audits and meet certification and compliance standards.
- Industry certification
Welds Tracker keeps a central database of welding assets and procedures and helps systems run efficiently, thereby lowering emissions and operating costs. This can go a long way towards making your business eligible for ISO or LEED certification.
Has your company ever been audited? This can happen after a serious breakdown, accident, quality issue, or if another organization is eyeing you for acquisition. Welds Tracker makes the audit process much less painful by keeping a permanent, unchangeable record of welder’s maintenance and welding parameters on all welders.
- Complying with maintenance requirements
Some large organizations, like Boeing or the US Government, require that the companies they deal with have a solid preventive maintenance program in place. If your company wants to sell products and services to organizations like this then it’s definitely worth investing in Welds Tracker.
- Government regulations
Are you in a government-regulated industry? If yes, then maintenance software can help you meet government requirements and avoid liability. For instance, an FDA survey from 2004 indicated that “no preventive maintenance” is the fifth most common problem in food processing plants in the US. Welds Tracker software makes it easy to stay on top of welder’s maintenance and avoid product contamination that might result from broken machines.
4. Be accountable
Accountability is key for a strong maintenance team, but it gets hard to maintain accountability when it isn’t clear who is responsible for what work.
- Track work in real-time
Welds Tracker lets you see all your welding activity information in one spot. As a team leader, supervisor, or manager, you can immediately see what work is overdue and what’s in progress, which makes it easy to follow up on work that’s taking too long.
- Get automatic notifications
Welds Tracker will help assigning tasks and send notifications to the right people. This means there’s no forgetting, losing track of paper or miscommunication—the right people get work assignments at the right time.
- Generate reports
Welds Tracker software comes with report-generating features that let you analyze the performance of the entire facility. These reports can help you justify the investment in preventive maintenance, since they make it easier to show overall interventions and man power investments.
