Almost everything expensive about a machining centre is protected by something cheap: way covers keep chips off the slides, wipers keep coolant out of the bearings, filtration keeps the coolant usable. Deferring the cheap parts is the normal route to spindle and ballscrew replacement, and the spindle is generally the largest single repair on the machine.
ChatterFix builds these as child assets under cnc machining center, so failure history and PM completions attach to the component that actually failed — not just to the machine.
The failure modes worth designing a maintenance schedule around — in rough order of what they cost when they happen.
Recording that a PM was "done" tells you nothing next quarter. These are the readings that let you see a failure coming — and the reason ChatterFix captures measurements against the asset rather than just completions.
The parts whose absence turns a short repair into a long outage.
The PMs ChatterFix schedules against this equipment, with intervals and time estimates.
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