What are the benefits of preventative maintenance to your industrial refrigeration plant?
Preventative maintenance, in a nutshell, is all about regular and scheduled maintenance to (as the name suggests) prevent any major issues.
So, what role does this play in your plant? Let’s have a look:
We’ve all heard the saying prevention is better than cure, but does this have relevance within the refrigeration sector too?
Preventative maintenance can be as simple as cleaning filters to more complicated tasks like calibrations and leak detections. The outcome of these tasks will bring benefits to your systems through:
- Extending the lifetime of your equipment
- Maintaining productivity and efficiency
- Ensuring that your plant is functioning in line with expectations
- Keeping risk to personnel, property, and stock realistically low
At Oomiak our undertaking of preventative maintenance focuses on identifying problems early, making minor adjustments and attending to servicing and lubrication needs. We offer programs that include a full range of services designed to meet your specific needs, including:
- Ammonia relief valve inspection and re-calibrations
- Annual maintenance
- Compressor overhauls
- Customised site and service reporting
- Laser alignments
- Electronic maintenance plans and asset registers
- Oil analysis
- Refrigerant leak detection
- Refrigerant leak minimisation plans
- Refrigerant probe calibrations and certifications
- Retrofitting for phase-out gases
- Remote monitoring
- Routine inspections
- Temperature probe calibrations
- Water treatment
- Thermal imaging of switchboards
- Ammonia / refrigerant leak detection calibration
- Vibration analysis
“With regular preventative maintenance, quite often, issues are found during site inspections and are able to be addressed before they become a major problem and create disruptions to client operations,” says Tim Rowen, Oomiak’s Customer Service Manager – Eastern Region.
But things don’t always go right and in the event of a breakdown, the big box to tick is making sure you have the proper skillset and expertise up your sleeve to mitigate these risks as much as possible.
Oomiak’s Customer Service teams offer a wide range of skills and a network of suppliers to ensure that you have full support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
So, what preventative maintenance does your plant need? Get in touch with our team or call 1300 731 699 and let’s find out!
