Notes on maintenance, production, and running a shop floor, from an engineer who has worked every side of it.
Presses, molds, dryers, and chillers make molding maintenance its own trade. What a CMMS has to handle in an injection molding shop, and a checklist to buy with.
A free downtime log template with the columns that matter, the rules that keep it alive past week two, and the honest point where the spreadsheet becomes the problem.
Maintenance technicians never abandon a wrench, because it makes the job faster. Most quit the CMMS for the opposite reason. What that means for the software.
