The vat agitator runs in product, often for hours per make, and its knives and frames are fastened into the milk. A leaking shaft seal or a weeping gearbox puts lubricant toward the product; a loose fastener or cracked frame is a foreign-material event in a vat of cheese. The monthly service is as much a food-safety check as a mechanical one.
The steps ChatterFix schedules for this PM. Every step is a checkable item on the work order — a technician can speak their way through it without touching a keyboard.
The vat agitator runs in product, often for hours per make, and its knives and frames are fastened into the milk. A leaking shaft seal or a weeping gearbox puts lubricant toward the product; a loose fastener or cracked frame is a foreign-material event in a vat of cheese. The monthly service is as much a food-safety check as a mechanical one.
Gearbox oil gets topped up with whatever is on the shelf, seals weep a little more each week, and a knife bolt backs out between makes. The failure that finally gets noticed is the expensive one: a metal detector reject, a customer complaint, or a gearbox that seizes mid-make with a full vat.
Monthly for vats making daily; weekly visual checks of knives and fasteners by the operator are worth building into pre-op. Use food-grade H1 oil only, and record amp draw so a change in load shows up as a trend.
This procedure — and every other PM for your industry — is already built into ChatterFix. Pick your industry and it lands on the right equipment, on the right interval, in about three minutes.