When Barber Brothers Contracting got serious about preventive. maintenance, Ronnie Falgout found the firm already had the tools they needed to stop PM-related failures. They just needed to put them to good use. "We had always kept file folders on each piece of equipment and our serviceman would pull folders and try to get maintenance done, but we were overlooking machines," says Falgout, Barber's construction manager. "We've got 20 tri-axle dump trucks, and when I went to the file folders, they could tell me the last time the oil had been changed on only about, five trucks. "When we went out to the field, we were finding filters on machines that had year-old dates scratched on them," he adds. "We were trying to track over 200 pieces of equipment by hand, and that's just too much for any one person to take care of without some kind of record-keeping system."
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