{"id":1501,"date":"2014-04-08T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:25:49","slug":"service-departments-and-scheduled-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instapro.spinuhost.com\/en\/blog\/engineeringandmaintenance\/service-departments-and-scheduled-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Departments and Scheduled Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Service after the sale is a value added product.\u00a0 Often times we look at a service business as someone trying to get extra money out of our purchase. \u00a0Well, here is some food for thought:<\/p>\n

When you do not regularly maintain your equipment, it tends to break easily or not work as efficiently.\u00a0 When this happens, you have downtime that you did not foresee.\u00a0 This is the worst type of down time, because it will cost you substantially more than scheduled down time.<\/p>\n

Scheduled down time?\u00a0 How could scheduling down time help?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it still unproductive down time?\u00a0 The answer is NO.\u00a0 When you break down unexpectedly, you could have a huge mess on your hands and unproductive employees.\u00a0 You also may not have the parts to fix the problem right away, leading to longer downtime, loss of production, rushed freight charges, etc\u2026<\/p>\n

By scheduling your downtime, it becomes an expense, \u00a0which you factor into product pricing, just like you do for operating expenses.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n