Piedmont Hoist supplies chain hoists, wire rope hoists, radio crane controls, overhead cranes, crane electrification products, below the hook devices, workstation cranes, crane certification and training.

Total Care Maintenance

Overhead Crane and Hoist Maintenance Program
"Protect your equipment like you protect your people"

How Total Care Maintenance helps
protect people, equipment and profits.

You may have the best-trained, most safety conscious operators, but if your overhead cranes and hoists are not properly inspected and maintained, you could suffer expensive failures and accidents - that could be prevented.

You can't have a safe workplace without proper training and proper maintenance - It's that simple. Total Care Maintenance can optimize the effectiveness and return on investment of your maintenance program.

The Total Care Maintenance program uses Tech Link computerized record keeping.

• Tech Link collects uniform, detailed inspection data on every crane and hoist, regardless of the equipment's location or the inspector collecting the data.
• Tech Link maintains comprehensive and consistent data bases on every crane and hoist in the program, which can be accessed and updated from any location.
• Tech Link evaluates the data to determine individualized maintenance programs for every piece of equipment.
• Tech Link generates consistent reports that summarize equipment status and maintenance activities for every unit and location involved in the program.

As a result, Total Care Maintenance keeps your cranes and hoists in peak operating condition. In addition to minimizing failures, Total Care Maintenance provides other crucial operating - and financial - advantages:

• Reduced equipment downtime and lost production expense
• Increased equipment performance, uptime, and productivity
• Longer equipment life and fewer replacement costs
• Lower overall costs for maintenance, repairs, and record keeping
• Greater peace of mind and profitability

Total Care Maintenance programs enhance the long term performance, economy, and safety of overhead cranes and hoists - by using advanced technology to greatly increase maintenance efficiency and effectiveness.

With the Total Care Maintenance program, Piedmont Service Representatives perform scheduled equipment inspections. In addition to pinpointing existing and potential problems, the inspection accesses and updates your maintenance data base using a handheld computer. Thanks to the Tech Link software, inspections and data entry are consistent from visit to visit, even when multiple plant locations are involved. So it doesn't matter which Piedmont Service Technician performs the inspection or at what location it is performed - all the data gathered is uniform and compatible. Reports generated by this data are more current, consistent, complete, and useful. They permit better maintenance scheduling, as well as more accurate preventive maintenance, trend analysis, and maintenance cost summaries.

Total Care Maintenance provides all the traditional services and more:

• 24/7 service and online parts ordering
• 24/7 equipment monitoring (with crane monitor installed)
• Equipment testing
• New equipment specification, design, and installation
• Existing equipment upgrades and modernization
• Individualized maintenance schedules and programs
• Operator training
• Warranty extension programs

These features make Total Care Maintenance with Tech Link software the first true total care program - an investment that maximizes the value produced by every dollar spent on overhead crane and hoist maintenance.