Does Equipment Suffer with the Economy?

Company adjust dollar to number and number are

1. Manpower

2. Number of equipments

3. Number of preventive maintenance agreement with equipment vendor

4. Decrease number of dead weight (number of pure maintenance guys)

The adjustment is done to make good in bottom line for current quarter and most of them will get in Damion effect and finally close the shop if not careful to protect its future product line development of bread and butter of the organization.

This is difference between a good CEO and an average CEO.

This is reason we have trouble in automobile this is the reason we are in trouble in financial market and other business identity. Short cut and narrow greed of profit and live quarter to quater forces us to have this number game and eventually kill the good business by making business model non effective

President of the company only purchases used machinery. While we recondition the machines we get two things out of it:

1. Education (we learn how the machine works and its components)

2. Component exposure (I learn what components make the machine and place them on the CMMS software)

Obviously there are problems when purchasing used, but also there are alot of advantages. Price for instance. Aside from this, I still have all of my personnel to do preventive maintenance. We do alot of reconstruction of components and have set out to purchase spare parts outside my country. I have also bought components, like Phoenix contacts, which you only replace parts and not whole elements.

I have also cut on extra hours and tried to plan as much of my mechanics time as possible. My stock room has gone down on stock so I purchase day to day to make repairs.