Re-Writing CW2500 Board Packing Line Maintenance Manual

Abstract

This thesis was an update and re-design project of a packing line maintenance manual. The customer of the project was CrossWrap Oy Ltd. It is a Finnish company that produces machines and offers solutions for the waste industry. Wrapping and bale opening machines are manufactured by the company for RDF, SRF, MSW and recyclables. They focus on providing excellent solutions for wrapping, storing, transporting, opening, de-wiring and packaging material bales and finished products. They have delivered over 500 machines to 55 countries. The technology and method of their wrapping and de-wiring machines are one of the top solutions available on the market. With their machines, they strive to enhance the company's productivity, safety, sustainability, customer satisfaction, and overall profitability.

The aim of the thesis was to update and fix the existing maintenance manual. The reasoning for the update was the accumulated and updated information that wasn’t implemented to the maintenance manual for a long time. The whole manual was in a state of a rough note that was 11 pages long, with decent instructions and bad structure. The idea for the manual was to make it easy to read and understand for the potential customer with no prior knowledge of the machine, to have updated information and instructional pictures and to have a preliminary version of the manual layout and content, before the machine launch in Russia.

The theoretical part of the thesis consisted of defining the meaning of maintenance according to an SFS standard, studying prior works on the topic of maintenance definition and various internet articles. It would be used to understand how good maintenance effects other business departments inside the company, understand what maintenance divisions exist and find out what type the maintenance manual represents. Once the main tips for manual writing are defined, then all the accumulated theory will be synthesized into a guideline that will be used during the process of updating the maintenance manual.