Sorters fail statistically rather than catastrophically. Read rates drop a fraction of a percent, diverters actuate slightly late, and mis-sorts climb — all of it invisible until someone looks at the jam counts by station.
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.
Sorters fail statistically rather than catastrophically. Read rates drop a fraction of a percent, diverters actuate slightly late, and mis-sorts climb — all of it invisible until someone looks at the jam counts by station.
Rising mis-sorts that get blamed on labelling or on staff, recirculating product, and eventually a jam rate that forces manual sortation.
Quarterly. Dirty photo-eye lenses are the single most common cause of read-rate loss, so clean them more often than you service the mechanics.
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.