A preventive maintenance schedule for packaging, paper and printing plants is the plan of checks, services and inspections that keeps the plant’s equipment running between breakdowns. Printing, converting, packing and paper machines, with compressed air and steam behind them. Wear parts and web-handling equipment need frequent checks.
Below are the equipment types we list for this industry, each with its own preventive maintenance schedule and checklist, and the common utilities every plant has. The tasks and intervals follow common industry practice; the maker’s manual and site safety procedures come first.
Equipment in a packaging, paper and printing plants preventive maintenance schedule
Cranes, lifting & material handling
Packaging, filling & inspection
Boilers, steam & thermal systems
Water & effluent treatment
Plastics & rubber
Instruments, automation & laboratory
Valves, piping & hydraulics
Conveying, bulk handling & dust control
Fans, blowers, vacuum & ventilation
Pumps
Compressors & compressed air
HVAC & refrigeration
Textile, paper, garment & printing
Fire protection & safety
Motors, drives & power transmission
Process & chemical equipment
Heat exchangers, vessels & storage
Food, dairy & beverage
Machine tools, metalworking & assembly
Furnaces, foundry & surface treatment
Other equipment
Oil, gas, power plant & environment
Buildings & facilities
Common plant equipment in packaging, paper and printing plants
Pumps, compressors, motors, boilers, chillers, air handling units, transformers, generators and conveyors appear in almost every industry. Their schedules:
The full list is on the page of equipment preventive maintenance schedules.
How big is the preventive maintenance schedule for packaging, paper and printing plants?
For one unit of each of the 87 industry-specific equipment types in our library, the schedule has 541 recurring tasks and about 7,297 hours of work a year. Adding one unit of each of the 62 common equipment types makes it 908 tasks and about 10,066 hours. A real plant has several units of most of them, which is why the monthly workload needs balancing.
Build your packaging, paper and printing plants preventive maintenance schedule
Pick your equipment in the free generator and download a 12-month schedule as an Excel file, with tasks, intervals and monthly workload hours. For the method, read the guide to the preventive maintenance schedule, and the preventive maintenance checklist.
To run it in software, see maintenance software for packaging and maintenance software for paper and pulp, or the preventive maintenance software module.
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Frequently asked questions
What should a preventive maintenance schedule for packaging, paper and printing plants include?
The equipment that decides output and safety, the tasks and intervals for each, the time each task takes and who does it, and a record of completion. For this industry the biggest groups of equipment are cranes, lifting & material handling, packaging, filling & inspection, boilers, steam & thermal systems, water & effluent treatment. Add the statutory examinations that apply to your plant.
How many types of equipment does the packaging, paper and printing plants schedule cover?
Our library lists 87 industry-specific equipment types for packaging, paper and printing plants and 62 common plant equipment types, each with its own tasks, intervals and times.
Is there a free preventive maintenance schedule generator for packaging, paper and printing plants?
Yes. The free preventive maintenance schedule generator opens with this industry selected, lets you choose your equipment and quantities, and gives a 12-month schedule as an Excel file.