MAGUIRE PRS-20, Установка, эксплуатация и обслуживание

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Maguire Products, Inc.
Edition: June 20, 2012 – PRS-20
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Maguire Purging Recovery System
6 – General Information
Our Design Philosophy
While we do have competitors, our equipment is different. Here is why.
When we design equipment, we have FIVE objectives. All are important, but not all are obvious. In their
order of importance they are:
1. FUNCTION:
This is very simple; the customer has certain requirements, and we must meet these
Requirements. This is the most obvious consideration, the first consideration, and the one
consideration that can most easily be tested and compared.
2. RELIABILITY:
This is not so easy to test. Time and experience is the only way to be sure equipment will last a
long time, require little or no maintenance, and provide maximum "up" time. The true cost of
equipment can be much higher when maintenance and lost production time are added in.
3. SERVICEABILITY:
When it breaks, how easily can it be serviced. Can your employees do it, do it quickly, and do it
right? Is skilled and costly outside service required? Are parts readily available? How much time
will it take to get it running again.
4. EASE OF USE:
What percentage of your employees will be able to run this equipment. All of them? Only the best
of them? Maybe only the engineers in the office? How about the night shift? Ease of use is very
important. Production suffers when equipment is difficult to understand and operate.
5. PRICE:
Very important. Especially to us. Customers often consider this the most important item .... and
it is easy to compare.
Our competitors often get number 1 and 5 right, "Function" and "Price". On the other hand "Reliability",
"Serviceability", and "Ease of use" are difficult to measure, hard to value, and hard to use as selling
points. They are also much more difficult features to achieve in the design. We take these three
objectives very seriously, incorporating them into product from the very beginning of the design process.
Lost production time, while difficult to predict, is very expensive. For that reason we place these design
goals ahead of cost. In the long run our customers are better served by this philosophy and, therefore, so
are we.