Preventive Machine Maintenance in Garments
Preventive maintenance refers to regular, routine maintenance to help keep equipment up and running, preventing any unplanned downtime and expensive costs from unanticipated equipment failure. Preventive maintenance reduces cost, reduce machine downtime. These are the reasons why preventive machine maintenance in garments is required. A sewing machine is one of the key machinery used in garments industry to make garments. Because of sewing machine breakdown, or any other mechanical problem may stop your factory production. So to reduce this problem it will be useful if you do maintenance of machine regular basis. For your convenience, I made a Preventive Machine Maintenance Checklist for Sewing Machine. Hopefully, this will help you to make a checklist and continue your sewing machine maintenance to minimize the problem. Here is the list is given below:
Preventive Machine Maintenance Checklist for Sewing Machine
- Thread stand clean & tight
- Bobbin winder proper check
- Feed dog check
- Pressure foot check
- Needle plate check
- Needle screw check
- V-belt check
- Belt cover clean & tight
- Pully & pully cover check
- Hookset check
- Oil level check properly & clean
- Needle guard check
- Moving knife check
- Fix knife check
- Footrest check
- Headrest pin check
- Kneepad check
- Paddle mat check
- Ubt machine proper working & check
- Stand shoe check
- Fabric guide check
- Pedal chain check
- Looper check
- Waste tube check
- Lower knife check
- Upper knife check
- Eyeglass check
- Tabletop condition check
- Machine condition check
- Gauge set check
- Top feed dog check
- Gear bearing check
- Pressure bar/regulator check
- Bobbin case check
- Oil lubrication system checking
- Oil change
- Moto & control box clean by air pressure
- All moving parts checking/replacement
- Gear and bearing checking/replacement
- Hook for sharp surfaces and burrs on the hook point
- Check the oil levels in the machines
If you have any confusion then please let me know. I will try to clarify for your better understanding.
Preventive Machine Maintenance Checklist of Sewing Machine pdf
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