Feasibility and efficiency of agricultural machinery maintenance

Abstract

The greatest impact on machine uptime and performance is the timely and high-quality maintenance. The main contradiction is inherent in the system of maintenance and use of machines, in the coincidence of the timing of their performance: the more time is spent, the more maintenance operations need to be performed. As a result, during busy periods of fieldwork, to ensure high operating time, to the detriment of prevention, the mechanic has to virtually eliminate only the consequences of failures, which leads to their increase, machine productivity is reduced and operating costs increase. With the current trend of having more than one machine per operator, the operator is physically unable to perform all types of maintenance and repair work alone. Therefore, it would be advisable to transfer some of these works to specialized enterprises. The problem of increasing the reliability of tractors can also be solved by deeper specialization and intensification of maintenance operations during their transfer to nonstressed periods of fieldwork. In the work the structure of formation of technical service at the enterprises of agroindustrial complex is proposed and theoretically grounded. The main advantages of the proposed system of technical service are considered.