Preventive Maintenance Schedule#21

Ability to create and maintain a PM list for printers. ie Cleaning, replacing nozzle, bearings, or other components.

Hi there :)

This is actually an already-planned feature! 🙌

What’s planned is that we can monitor your printer usage (by online time, run time etc.), giving you tasks such as “Tighten belt”, as well as manually schedule your own maintenance for a printer, making it so you (or anyone else) can’t start a print on a printer if the print overlaps with a scheduled maintenance (which can be a 1-off schedule, or weekly, monthly, yearly etc.).

We’ve had the mockup and basic idea since 2021 actually, we just haven’t gotten around to it just yet, but it’s making its way up the pipeline, and it won’t be long now :)

If you ad Preventive maintenance is it possible to include a maintenance mode that blocks the printer from acepting a new queue item until unlocked again

Ongoing discussion about this feature; https://discord.com/channels/699248047640805463/1248602887848988754 (join our Discord server if you’re not in it yet; https://simplyprint.io/discord) - join in if you have thoughts to share about the feature, before we start development! :)

Forgot to ping upvoters* ^

I’d like to see the ability to record maintenance event or parts completed, together with an interval between regular preventative mainenance that coutns down. Printers that need maintenance should be flagged and not available to accept new prints unless overridden with a check box or something.

Having the ability to see a timeline of maintenance events carried out such as nozzle swaps, belt tightening, bed replacement etc would enable me to be able to keep a log of work carried out and help to identify other issues.

We did start developing this, but put it on ice for a bit due to a few more pressing matters. We’ll be back on it soon though!

We have the issue that we need to clean the build plates almost daily. Would be nice to make it specific to specific printers and amount of print time. We also have some things that need 3DLac as an example. Would be nice to have A1 with Jobox print all plates and then stop for the next application. Yes you could wait until all the plates have run through, but employees sometimes don’t know we need 3DLac on those printers/prints so they start to put it back into the magazine. Would be nice to just stop the auto print and mark a label as “3D-Lac applcation needed” and same for autoprint for other printers that need the regular bed cleaning.

Pretty much done! Code review and extensive testing time now, but won’t be long before this is live.

Thank y’all for your patience and feedback on this!

It’s live! Read about the launch here: https://simplyprint.io/blog/introducing-printer-maintenance/

Thanks to everyone who upvoted and commented on this, and especially those who dedicated multiple hours to provide feedback on this in our Discord server: it took a while, but I think you’ll be happy with the result!