Drives and gearboxes are the components whose failure takes a line down for days rather than hours, because replacements are rarely on the shelf. Oil condition and coupling alignment are cheap to check and expensive to ignore.
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.
Drives and gearboxes are the components whose failure takes a line down for days rather than hours, because replacements are rarely on the shelf. Oil condition and coupling alignment are cheap to check and expensive to ignore.
Coupling wear that misaligns the drive, which loads the bearings, which kills the gearbox — a failure chain that is entirely preventable at the first step.
Quarterly for continuous-duty drives. Extend it only once oil analysis gives you a reason to.
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.