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Equipment Inspection & Maintenance · TPM and Predictive Maintenance

Move beyond "fix it when it breaks" to "maintain on schedule and predict by condition." Daily inspections, weekly servicing, monthly accuracy calibration and annual overhauls are all scheduled into the system under a TPM framework. Once vibration, temperature and current sensors are connected, AI models predict remaining useful life and raise alerts before failures occur.

4
Maintenance tiers (daily check → annual overhaul)
50%+
Reduction in failure rate
PdM
Predictive maintenance
Capabilities

Core Capabilities for Equipment Maintenance

Covering the full chain of inspection, servicing, repair, spare parts and predictive maintenance

📝 Daily Inspection

Operators scan a code on a PDA before starting each shift, tick off checklist items, attach photos, and automatically call for maintenance when anomalies are found.

🔧 TPM Autonomous Maintenance

Four types of autonomous tasks — cleaning, lubrication, tightening and adjustment — are dispatched to operators on a cycle, so operating equals maintaining.

📅 Planned Maintenance (PM)

Schedule preventive maintenance by three trigger types — time, running hours or cycle count — and auto-dispatch work to technicians when due.

🛠 Repair Work Orders

A closed loop from fault report → emergency dispatch → spare-parts requisition → repair record → acceptance, with average MTTR calculated automatically.

📦 Spare-Parts Inventory

Safety-stock alerts for critical parts, requisition records and lifecycle management; spare parts linked to the equipment BOM for easy lookup.

🔮 Predictive Maintenance

Feed vibration, temperature and current sensor data into AI models to predict remaining useful life and warn before a failure ever happens.

mes.shangbangke.com/maint/tpmTPM
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TPM Maintenance — Today
StandardsScan confirm
MachineTaskOwnerStatus
CNC-01Autonomous · clean & lubeOperatorDone
INJ-02Professional · calibrateTechIn progress
WLD-01Red-tag · oil leakTechTagged
ASM-01Autonomous · checkOperatorPending

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Operating Equals Maintaining

TPM assigns maintenance responsibility to operators, so "the people who use the equipment also understand it." Under the TPM framework, the system splits maintenance tasks into operator autonomous maintenance and professional maintenance — the former performed daily or per shift by operators, the latter weekly or monthly by maintenance technicians.

  • 5 steps of autonomous maintenance: clean → eliminate contamination sources → set standards → general inspection → autonomous management
  • Professional maintenance: scheduled replacement, accuracy calibration and deep overhaul
  • OPL one-point lessons: a "one-minute lesson" posted beside each machine
  • Red-tag campaign: tag anomalies with a red card, remove it once corrected
mes.shangbangke.com/maint/predictiveAI predict
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Predictive — CNC-01 Spindle
SpectrumCreate WO
NormalVibration
68℃Bearing temp
3.2%Current THD
320hRUL

Bearing temp trend last 6 periods (℃)

58W14
60W15
62W16
65W17
68W18
72Pred

Predictive Maintenance: From "Watching the Clock" to "Watching the Condition"

Traditional planned maintenance replaces parts when a time or cycle threshold is reached, which may mean "replacing something that was still good" or "failing before the schedule." SBK MES connects vibration, temperature, current and oil-condition sensors, uses AI models to predict true remaining life, and makes decisions based on condition.

  • Vibration spectrum analysis: identify bearing, gear and misalignment fault signatures
  • Temperature trends: early warning of rising motor and bearing temperatures
  • Current harmonics: early detection of motor winding insulation aging
  • Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction: train dedicated models on your historical data
mes.shangbangke.com/maint/orderRepair WO
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Repair WO RM-0512 — INJ-02
KBTest & accept
Report
10:02 operator PDA
Dispatch
10:05 supervisor
On-site fix
Parts · in progress
Accept
Awaiting test-run

MTTR 0:48 · Fault code F-04 heater band

Repair Work Orders: Fully Traceable from Report to Acceptance

Fault occurs → operator reports via PDA → repair supervisor dispatches → technician arrives → requisitions spare parts → completes repair → operator test-runs and accepts → work order closed. Every step is timestamped, and MTBF / MTTR are calculated automatically.

  • Standardized fault codes: a three-part classification of symptom / cause / location
  • SLA monitoring of emergency-response and repair durations
  • Spare-parts requisition automatically linked to inventory
  • Repair knowledge base: retrieve historical solutions for similar faults
Use Cases

Maintenance in Practice for Different Equipment Types

CNC Spindle Predictive Maintenance

Spindle vibration and temperature are connected; the RUL model predicts a bearing replacement after 200 machine hours, so parts are ordered in advance.

Injection Molding TPM Autonomous Maintenance

Operators scan-inspect injection barrel, mold temperature and oil pressure each shift, and report repairs immediately on anomalies.

Compressor Lubricating-Oil Monitoring

Oil sensors feed moisture and metal-particle data; when thresholds are exceeded the system recommends an oil change, preventing bearing seizure.

SMT Feeder Lifecycle Management

Each feeder is tagged to record usage counts; before end of life, parts are stocked and calibration is scheduled.

Related Features

Equipment Maintenance Works Hand-in-Hand with These Capabilities

Maintenance data drives OEE improvement and fixed-asset management

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