A preventive maintenance schedule for plastics, rubber and polymer plants is the plan of checks, services and inspections that keeps the plant’s equipment running between breakdowns. Injection moulding, extrusion, mixers and curing presses, with chillers, hydraulics and moulds. Moulds and tooling are tracked like machines because their condition sets quality.
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 plastics, rubber and polymer plants preventive maintenance schedule
Conveying, bulk handling & dust control
Cranes, lifting & material handling
Plastics & rubber
Machine tools, metalworking & assembly
Valves, piping & hydraulics
Process & chemical equipment
Instruments, automation & laboratory
Packaging, filling & inspection
Pumps
Fans, blowers, vacuum & ventilation
Boilers, steam & thermal systems
Water & effluent treatment
Fire protection & safety
Heat exchangers, vessels & storage
Compressors & compressed air
Motors, drives & power transmission
HVAC & refrigeration
Furnaces, foundry & surface treatment
Other equipment
Agro, grain & sugar processing
Buildings & facilities
Common plant equipment in plastics, rubber and polymer 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 plastics, rubber and polymer plants?
For one unit of each of the 79 industry-specific equipment types in our library, the schedule has 485 recurring tasks and about 6,025 hours of work a year. Adding one unit of each of the 62 common equipment types makes it 852 tasks and about 8,794 hours. A real plant has several units of most of them, which is why the monthly workload needs balancing.
Build your plastics, rubber and polymer 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 plastics and maintenance software for tyre and rubber, or the preventive maintenance software module.
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Frequently asked questions
What should a preventive maintenance schedule for plastics, rubber and polymer 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 conveying, bulk handling & dust control, cranes, lifting & material handling, plastics & rubber, machine tools, metalworking & assembly. Add the statutory examinations that apply to your plant.
How many types of equipment does the plastics, rubber and polymer plants schedule cover?
Our library lists 79 industry-specific equipment types for plastics, rubber and polymer plants and 62 common plant equipment types, each with its own tasks, intervals and times.
Is there a free preventive maintenance schedule generator for plastics, rubber and polymer 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.