The Top 5 Benefits of an Electronic Forklift Preventive Maintenance Checklist
Forklift preventive maintenance checklist is more than maintaining OSHA compliance, the information is needed and used by maintenance managers. By regularly performing maintenance, your facility operation can realize some critical benefits.
What is a Forklift Preventive Maintenance Checklist?
A forklift preventive maintenance checklist is a list of mandatory questions that must be asked, reviewed and decided upon in order to keep the forklift operating. The list of questions is supplied by OSHA for compliance with the law, however, additional questions can be added based on your unique environment. As paper has been the traditional means of capturing the updated health of the forklift, more electronic means have begun to take over. What are some of the benefits?
Benefit #1: Longer Life for the Forklift
The forklift preventive maintenance checklist ensures that the lift truck lives a longer life. However, a standard paper-based forklift checklist can cause critical answers to be missed. By implementing the S2 digital forklift inspection, the questions and answers are randomized ensuring a fresh look at the inspection each time.
This ensures that with regular maintenance on the lift trucks, the longer it will last and productivity will be at its peak. In turn, the owned or leased forklifts will yield a better return on the investment (ROI).
Benefit #2: Improved Productivity
By educating the forklift drivers on forklift preventive maintenance checklist benefits, and how it affects their job and obtaining their quota each day, they’ll have a better understanding for the importance of maintenance. It’s not just for breakdowns and repairs.
Performing regular maintenance will mean more uptime. It’s simple…the more the forklift truck can operate, the more each forklift driver can produce and reach their daily goal.
Benefit #3: Save Money
By randomizing the questions and answers to the forklift preventive maintenance checklist, you’ll be able to identify small problems and get it fixed before it turns into a much more costly issue. These issues can include low fluid levels, leaks, issues with fittings to name a few.
Benefit #4: Better Safety
By having the forklift operator pay closer attention to the inspection process and understand ‘why’ this is so critical, safety becomes a more important aspect to the job. Not only does management have a responsibility to keep drivers and workers safe during the forklift operating time, but the drivers have a responsibility to ensure the forklift preventive maintenance checklist is done as best as possible to ensure they get to go home safely after each shift.
Benefit #5: Resale Value High, Lease Repairs Low
There comes a time when the forklift has done its job and it’s time to move it on. If you choose to trade in your lift trucks, and it’s been well maintained during the forklift’s life, you’ll be able to realize more of your initial investment during the resale process. With the long lead time to purchasing a new forklift truck, those that are purchasing a used forklift truck will pay a premium for a well-maintained truck.
Summary
By using the S2 Digital Inspection with Impact Detection, you’ll capture data that you’ve never seen before. This will include analysis on answers to the forklift inspection questions along with data on capturing near misses, low, medium and high impacts. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai today to get a closer look at the randomizing process and the Dashboard for results.