Workshop Set Up

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You're going to have to decide what work you're going do in house first. Then decide on the machines you'll need.

The balls in your court, only you can make the decisions.

I would start by looking at the maintenance schedules for the equipment you have and get the tools you need to carry that out.

Additionally some general tools - spanners, screw drivers, micrometers, calipers, a grinder, some lifting gear - chain blocks, crane, hoist, safety gear ... would be useful.

You could employ someone experienced in maintenance of that sort of equipment and work with them to build and equip your workshop - experience is a most important ingredient ....

You can have the most up-to-date maintenance shop designed to address virtually any potential failure of any equipment you use, and it will be an absolute waste of money if you don't have a skilled and properly-trained maintenance staff. All the fancy equipment in the world is totally useless, if you don't have staff that understand how to use it. Focus on the people first. Let the maintenance staff design their own facility.

I have had the adventure of providing engineering support to a number of remote facilities that have no access to external support infrastructure. If something critical breaks, they either fix it or shut down and go home until a replacement can be shipped in (typically from another country). Most of these facilities are primarily staffed by locals with limited educational opportunities/background. None of the facilities I have worked with have ever been forced to shut down due to maintenance problems. All of them rely on certain key maintenance personnel that most likely could not get hired in a more "civilized" environment- most can not even read a maintenance manual.

These operations are successful because they are people-focused. Management recognizes how critical the maintenance staff can be to the overall functioning of the facility.

It is the people, not the equipment that matters.

Sir

We have 3 people who are getting trained on these kind of euipment. In addition to this, we have grinder/welding machine/gas cutting gun/anchor drill machine/spanners ( flat / round / box ), medium size bearing puller/chain block 5ton/multimeter/ vernier calipers/divider/bench vice / fixed drill machine/sometimes our fitter makes tools suitable for the problem. I want to know apart from this some focus on any additional tools ( mech / elect ) and set ( plan ) for workshop. All these days we were working as per problems encountered. Moreover machine were new, so lesser problem and mostly under warranty. But now we want a thorough professional setup. Pl give your inputs for our betterment.

It sounds like you have a good start.

Do you have appropriate safety equipment - hearing and eye protection, dust masks, safety shoes, equipment safety guards, safety stops, lock-outs, etc ....

Other than that, your best guide for any specialized equipment will be the people being trained in maintenance of these pieces of equipment and their trainers.

While the training is occurring have the trainees ask the trainers what they recommend in terms of special equipment or tools.

With us being a maintenance training company, of course i agree with cwarner7_11 that people is most important and their training. BUT... Your question susheel1225 never indicated you needed people for the shop too or asked what was the best training for them.

So to help you clarify for the others here that are so kindly trying to help out, I think what susheel1225 is specifically asking is for a LIST of Equipment for the maintenance shop that would support that type of production facility with heavy emphasis on fabrication. (In case him and his experienced people over looked something)

I'm no mechanic, but for example, shears, drill press, lathe, Tig welder, computer with cad software and printer to support printing drawings, safety equipment etc. etc.

susheel1225: If you have a big budget, what is top of the line, increases support capabilities and time would be a plasma cutter and a CNC machine. Taking in mind what WAWAUS said, make sure you get your people properly trained on each piece of new equipment. These two pieces of hi-end equipment will eliminate the need for a lot of other equipment and outsourcing, there by reducing downtime too. (waiting for parts to be shipped to you.)

For additional advice like layout of equipment and all, see

http://www.ehow.com/how_5959899_set-up-metal-fab-shop.html

I'd also recommend looking around on the internet to see what equipment others used for their shops, like ...

http://www.sel-tech.com/machining_equipment.htm

Hope this helps a little more.