Integrating Condition Monitoring and Production Scheduling in High-Load Manufacturing

Industrial maintenance becomes significantly more challenging when production equipment operates almost continuously and only limited time is available for planned maintenance.

In 2019, I joined Zangak Publishing House in Armenia as Production Manager shortly before the company's annual peak production period. From late May through August, the facility was required to produce large volumes of state-commissioned school textbooks before the beginning of the academic year. During this period, offset printing, folding, stitching, binding, and related equipment could operate for up to 22 hours per day.

The challenge was not simply to repair equipment faster after a failure. The objective was to identify developing mechanical problems early enough to prevent them from becoming significant production interruptions.

A structured maintenance and production-management approach was implemented using daily inspections, operator feedback, vibration and temperature monitoring, recording of minor stoppages, preventive maintenance, and dynamic adjustment of production sequences.

According to the company's internal performance...

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