SERVICE & MAINTENANCE
Evaluation Services
Technology is always advancing and your quest for optimal performance, efficiency, and profitability is ongoing. Additionally, you may have older equipment that lacks the modern safety features companies need to reduce risk and control costs. As a result, an upgrade may provide a cost-effective solution that keeps your initial investment in operation but modernizes its capabilities.
AHI can conduct a variety of evaluations to ensure the longevity of your machinery, educate your production teams on proper maintenance procedures, or help optimize an existing machine to improve its performance. The evaluation services offered by AHI include:
- Mechanical Evaluation Visits
- Break-In Maintenance Services
- Preventative Maintenance & Mechanical Evaluation
- Site Visit Evaluations
- Safety Upgrade Evaluations
PLC Optimization & Safety Upgrades
These two evaluation services are of primary importance to ensuring you get the most out of your machinery and your team. A controls optimization allows the PLC programming to be reviewed and optimized to improve through-put. This review is a cost-effective way to optimize your production line without mechanical changes.
Improving the safety of your team is another easy way to control costs and reduce risk to your production operations. Our safety upgrade evaluations look at opportunities for your company to introduce new technologies to improve the safety of your employees. Examples of technologies you can adopt are personnel scanners or pneumatic zero-stored energy to reduce risk during maintenance operations.
Maintenance & Training Services
To ensure the longevity of your machinery and equipment, Automatic Handling can consult with your team to develop maintenance strategies, manage downtime / planned outage maintenance, and strategize on the integration of automatic lubrication into existing systems.
In addition to controls operations training, Automatic Handling’s Service Engineering Department can work with your team to provide specific maintenance instruction in the form of walk-downs to review tasks and scheduled checks performed to maximize the life of your machinery. Training services offered by AHI ensure that your team has the opportunity for hands on learning as opposed to just being handed an operating manual.
Engineering Services
Covering anything from 3D scans of existing machinery for use in planning and design to analyzing and assessing the potential for upgrading or modernizing your production line equipment, Automatic Handling provides a variety of engineering expertise in the form of:
- Engineering Scans
- Equipment Renewal Visits
- System Safety Assessments & Upgrades
Installation Technical Assistance (ITA) or Full Installation
When customers purchase a new material handling system or equipment upgrade they count on Automatic Handling’s experienced Installation Team to ensure that the same knowledge that went into the system’s build and assembly is leveraged to bring the machinery into their production line.
With backgrounds in mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering, our Installation Team travels to your plant or mill to handle the construction tasks associated with receiving, placing, and starting up the equipment to ensure that your production line maintains its efficiency with minimal downtime.
Have your own team to install new equipment? No problem!
As a global leader in the manufacturing and installation of custom material handling equipment, our team has a depth of knowledge customers can leverage even if they elect to have their own team install the equipment. Installation Technical Assistance (ITA) provides you with the advantage of our expertise in guiding your team through tasks such as:
- Pre-installation remote support for your installation contractor
- Timeline / Timeframe analysis and recommendations
- Alignment on order of installation and equipment objectives
- Post-installation inspection and assurance of completed work
What are the benefits of an ITA?
When dealing with heavy duty manufacturing, there are always other factors to consider. Regardless if it is a new system or an equipment upgrade, it needs to work as part of your overarching production line. As a result, utilizing AHI’s Installation Technical Assistance allows our customers to:
- Improve accuracy and efficiency by coordinating with your contractor pre-install
- Ensure that safety is maintained before prior and during the physical installation
- Align on electrical planning and necessary pre-work in preparation
- Establish expectations by providing custom installation drawings
- Coordinate delivery of equipment with your installation schedule
OUr Service Team is Here to Support you!
Even if we aren’t your original roll handling equipment manufacturer, we can help get your machinery performing to your expectations.