When your food processing equipment performs at its best, you maximize throughput, profits, and peace of mind. To achieve maximum uptime requires routine maintenance and repairs. A big part of excellent maintenance is the type of parts you use to replace worn or broken components.
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) parts are designed to protect your investment from friction, vibration and other problems caused by inferior quality parts. There are many cheaper and inferior parts available in the market, but there’s a good chance they will negatively affect your precision equipment.
Here are seven key reasons to use OEM parts:
1. Guaranteed Quality
Starting with the highest quality materials, OEM parts are precisely made and manufactured to work perfectly with the original equipment. This ensures that your machine is protected and performing at peak performance. Most OEM parts are guaranteed to properly fit and function every time.
2. Warranty
Installation of non-OEM parts poses a threat to the warranty coverage of most food processing equipment. If something fails because someone changed out a part that doesn’t match the manufacturer’s specifications, you may have to pay for the rebuild out of your own pocket.
3. Longevity
Many aftermarket parts are promoted to be the same, when in fact they may not be. Aftermarket parts may cause excessive wear-and-tear on your equipment, or the parts may break down much sooner than OEM parts, costing you more money over time.
4. Better Performance and Efficiency
Every part or service that a customer commits to using has an element of risk as to whether it will in fact meet its intended objective. OEM parts are rigorously tested to match the manufacturer’s standards, so you can have peace of mind knowing your equipment will operate at its highest level of performance and efficiency.
5. Reliable Production & Distribution
Suppliers of OEM parts have been around for years. Which means, they have refined and perfected their distribution network for on-time delivery. In fact, some processing equipment manufacturers have large inventories of parts and offer same-day shipment of critical units.
6. Ease of Replacement
An important advantage of OEM parts is you know they will fit perfectly. Many aftermarket parts are designed to fit multiple machines. This leads to ill-fitting parts that require manipulation to make them fit properly, leading to increased downtime.
7. Excellent Support
OEM manufacturers work directly with their customers. When you contact the manufacturer, you can speak with an engineer who knows your equipment, and parts, inside and out. This technical and engineering support is vital for maximizing uptime.
Trust OEM parts for your equipment
Given how much you invested in your equipment, why risk buying aftermarket parts? Trust genuine OEM parts and rest assured your equipment will perform at its best.