Forklift Scheduled Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance, a viable necessity to a proper service program, is a procedure by which your equipment is periodically serviced in order to achieve optimum performance and efficiency. Scheduled Maintenance is a direct influence in the overall reduction of maintenance dollars spent during the anticipated useful life of your equipment. With over 425 pieces of late model narrow aisle equipment in stock; Bluff City Dockhoppers is committed to supplying what clients need whether short term or long term. Schedule maintenance on all equipment will be performed on a quarterly basis and if repairs are needed, we will provide you with a written quote.
Our Scheduled Maintenance program is our commitment to attempt to control unwarranted, premature deterioration of components and extend the useful life of your equipment. An example of this would be checking motor brushes and changing them before they wear so low they cause damage to the armature and motor failure.Scheduled Maintenance does not insure the total absence of breakdowns. Each component has an expected life and will eventually fail no matter how well maintained. The purpose of Scheduled Maintenance is to check and catch potential failure prior to their breakdown. By doing this and correcting the problem we minimize those surprise breakdowns and increase your UPTIME.
Bluff City Dockhoppers has chosen Bulldog Battery Corporation as a partner in business; so that we may supply you with,
not only the material handling equipment, but also the batteries and chargers. We have visited the manufacturing facilities for
the industrial batteries and chargers and are very proud to have Bulldog Battery as a business partner. With today’s technology,
microprocessors and computer controls on the equipment makes the battery play a vital role in the operation of the equipment.
We strongly believe that Bluff City Dockhoppers can do a better job of maintaining your batteries through the latest technology
in testing and acid adjusting your batteries.
During battery scheduled maintenence, batteries will be washed in a special build wash cabinet with an acid neutralizer,
and then blown off with compressed air, all cables, connectors, tips, inter-cell connectors, and vent caps are inspected
for ware and proper operation, and all cell voltages and hydrometer readings are recorded. After the Scheduled Maintenance
is complete all waste water is removed, tested and disposed of properly through EPA regulations. A detailed report is generated
that will show all cell readings and findings of any repairs that are needed. By following these procedures will be able to catch
a problem and possibly acid adjust, or run the battery through a constant current charger and load bank test; this can help keep
from losing the complete battery.