Importance
of Preventive Maintenance (Ski Resort Industry)
‘Electric
Asset Management’ is found in numerous
applications throughout commercial, industrial, process, manufacturing,
and residential applications. It is found anywhere mechanical or
electrical process takes place. It is very unusual for any one company
to possess. C.W. Silver, however, is a very unique company. C.W. Silver
has many qualities and attributes that qualifies it as the Premier
Electric Asset Management Company in the Intermountain area; one of
which qualities is preventive maintenance services.
Preventative maintenance services include monitoring and testing of
electrical equipment to assure system optimization. Preventive
maintenance plans help extend the life of electrical equipment. It is
especially important for ski resorts because their equipment is so
heavily used during one part of the year and an electrical failure
could cause a safety and sales threat. C.W. Silver has a preventive
maintenance contract with many Intermountain ski resorts which
drastically reduces the chance of failures happening.
In 2006, A major Utah ski resort installed a new ski lift. This lift
was going to be heavily used, so it was important that it be working
correctly. C.W. Silver was asked to test the ski lift motors for any
potential problems. Because the ski resort has C.W. Silver to do
preventive maintenance for many years, they knew that they could count
C.W. Silver’s services.
After interpreting the test results, Gary Lucero, C.W.
Silver’s
motor service specialist, found that the motor foundation was not
strong enough for the types of loads that were being created by the
lift. After more testing, Gary Lucero was able to find that the ski
lift’s drive-end bearings had started to fail and the motor
foundation was loosening.
It was found that the motor foundation issues were caused by the ski
lift’s design. The ski resort was able to use our test
results as
grounds to have the lift redesigned and fixed by the manufacturer. This
was good because the motor was still under warranty, so there was no
cost incurred. Had the ski resort not asked C.W. Silver to test the ski
lift, it may have cost them a lot of money and possibly their
customer’s safety.
The ski resort continues to use C.W. Silver as their electrical asset
managers, especially for preventive maintenance services.