The name MRO (an acronym for Maintenance, Repair and Operations) identifies all those activities carried out to ensure the correct functioning of all the equipment, machinery and resources used by a company within the production process. It therefore refers not only to the mechanical components of industrial machines, but ranges from office supplies to industrial equipment and materials used in the various repair or maintenance operations and all related activities.
Management of MRO operations
The management of MRO operations is delegated to company managers who may prefer that they be carried out only in the event of breakdowns and machine downtime; others, however, are able to arrange them in a preventive manner, through scheduled maintenance, reducing the risk of breakdowns to a minimum.
With MRO Automatic Vending Machines it is possible to have an organised system that allows you to keep track, having full control, of all the tools and materials needed to carry out these operations. They are essential for companies that need to speed up, monitor and make their MRO process management more efficient. Furthermore, correct MRO management also includes all the useful information such as warehouse stock and the supply of necessary resources; in this way it is possible to reduce downtime and consequently contain costs.
Automatic MRO: what are they for and why are they important?
MRO operations, together with those also known as Automatic MRO, are used to improve your company's equipment. The use of automatic MRO warehouses can facilitate all the operations related to their correct management. In fact, these automatic warehouses allow you to manage and monitor the collection and return of the equipment used and any spare parts through operator recognition and, if installed close to the place where the activities are carried out (so-called "on-line" warehouses), they avoid the downtime highlighted in the "spaghetti charts".
In a logic of Industry 4.0 and Lean Management, the elimination of waste of materials, time and optimization of management processes is increasingly widespread; therefore, the need for Automatic Distributors with 24x365 availability and relative traceability is growing.
Automatic MROs have the following advantages:
Withdrawal Management
through the recognition of the Badge it is possible to enable and customize the withdrawal and return of equipment and spare parts
Monitoring
thanks to the Argo TM PRO system it is possible to constantly monitor (24x365) the use of the products, recording all transactions
Inventory Management
the system is able to send alerts when preset consumption thresholds are reached
Reports
it is possible to create reports organized by booking/distribution point, by user, user profile, product, service, cost center
Saving
through the assignment of products to people based on withdrawal profiles, monitoring consumption and the possibility of managing withdrawal thresholds, it is possible to carry out analyses by setting any corrective actions in the event of anomalous, unjustified consumption or simply to avoid waste
Management advantages of Automatic DPI Dispensers
Monitoring of distribution progress.
Saving on inefficiencies, eliminating waste.
Programmable stocks with maximum optimization.
Summary reports available online.
Compliance with supervisory obligations so that the worker receives the assigned PPE (Legislative Decree 81/2008).
Demonstration of having adopted suitable, stable and documentable organizational models (Legislative Decree 231/2001).
