It’s no surprise that preventative maintenance and inspections directly correlate with reduced machine downtime. You have a better read on your equipment, preventing small, incremental flaws and damage from scaling into serious — and costly — concerns. This, in turn, allows for better management of all equipment assets, including scheduling more strategic operation times, servicing and complementary outsourced repairs without stalling project timelines and workflows.

Investing up-front in preventative and predictive maintenance translates into value down the road. With your inspections, you can accomplish real, value-based metrics, like cutting down on idle times and saving money on fuel costs by employing better total-engine hours. In controlling such variables, you minimize some of the most expensive yet pressing dents in your bottom line. You also catch and fix the smaller problems before they turn into bigger ones, not only preserving but in some cases restoring equipment reliability.

Replacing parts and components in your underground drilling equipment is inevitable. This takes time and resources, though, namely hard-earned capital you can’t keep spending on equipment repairs. The more frequent and unstructured these repairs are, the more you throw off budgets and timelines. No one benefits from that.

The combined efforts of drilling equipment maintenance are worth their salt. You create tighter, more compliant operations, improve on strategic project management and encourage technical expertise and buy-in from your crew. Yet alongside these logistical improvements, inspections and maintenance court improved documentation and reporting. All this maximizes fleet functionality and keeps your drill rigs doing what they were built to do, day after day.