Shop Maintenance Practices

A solid, well managed shop with skilled mechanics is a critical component of your cutting business. Your shop not only must keep your cutting equipment in top running condition, it must also keep your fleet of trucks on the road every day. A broken saw or an inoperable truck means down time and that means money. Money right off your bottom line.

So we need to be sure that your shop is operating smoothly and effectively. Procedures need to be developed, implemented, and closely followed to assure that all equipment and all vehicles are serviced in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications. Of course this means an accurate inventory of each piece of equipment, along with its maintenance and repair history.

Concrete Cutting Consultants, LLC will examine your existing equipment maintenance records, identify deficiencies in the documentation, and recommend corrective actions to allow your team to easily collect and maintain the needed service records. Using data management systems, the service history for each piece of equipment will be tracked with daily prompts to your mechanics of approaching service due dates. With this valuable information, an equipment maintenance schedule is easily established, allowing each piece to receive its correct periodic servicing. This kind of planning makes for a smoother operation in your shop, and creates fewer headaches for your dispatchers.

Basic Condition

What equipment are you using. What is its condition. What are your downtime and maintenance costs. Does it make sense to implement an equipment replacement program. And if so, over how long a period. Two years. Five years?

A lot of questions. But we can provide the answers. Our staff will start by inventorying your cutting equipment – everything from your handheld core drills to your diesel slab saws, right on up to your wire saws. We'll assemble and review your equipment purchase records, maintenance records, and usage logs. We'll examine the physical condition of each piece of equipment. And we will field test its operation and performance.

Our thorough evaluation will provide you with the necessary information to determine what equipment is making money for you, and what equipment is costing you money. We'll give you our recommendations, backed up with data, for an equipment replacement program. We will tell you what needs to go and when, and will also recommend alternatives for replacement and expansion of your equipment inventory.

Field Maintenance Practices

Do you know how your equipment is being cared for every day in the field. Is the oil being checked at the start of each shift. How about the belts and fittings. Are they being checked and properly maintained by your operators. Are the right blades on the saw. Are they being stored, installed, and used properly?

Our field auditors have the skills and knowledge to observe the use of your equipment at the job site and give you the answers to these important questions. We can identify incorrect field maintenance practices that increase job down time, reduce equipment life, and decrease you job margin. Let us help you get control of these unnecessary costs and maximize the return on your equipment investments.