When you need to buy and maintain the paint booth, how can we save our cost?There are hundreds of options on the market, each of which is optimized for a different type of work. Contact one of our advisors if you need help choosing the paint booth that is right for your business.
Take Care of All Routine Maintenance
While regular maintenance and upkeep my seem like an additional cost, it can actually help to decrease your long term operating costs. A well maintained paint booth will last much longer and will need far fewer expensive, unexpected repairs down the road.
Schedule Your Filter Changes Ahead of Time
Any paint booth expert will tell you that regular filter changes are one of the most important maintenance tasks for any paint booth. Your intake and exhaust filters will both need to be switched out periodically. Exhaust filters in particular are prone to clogging with heavy usage. They will typically need to be changed after 60 hours of spraying, or approximately once every 2 weeks.
Consider the Layout of the Shop
While your intake filter will eliminate a lot of the dust and dirt in the air, keeping the area surrounding your paint booth as clean as possible can go a long way towards keeping the inside of the booth clean. Most shops will work most efficiently if it is a one way track for the parts. Moving the parts from the prep area into the booth and then out the other side is usually a cleaner process than bringing painted parts back into the prep area. Think about your workflow when deciding where to set up your paint booth.
Keep and Eye on Your Control Panel
While this might seem obvious, your paint booth’s control panel can provide you with a lot of useful information about the current status of your paint booth components. One particularly useful piece of information is the number of spray hours your booth has logged since its last filter change. This is an easy way to tell if your filters will need to be changed sooner than expected or if you can wait a little longer to switch them out. Many control panels will even tell you if a filter is unexpectedly clogged, alerting the operator that it will need to be replaced sooner than originally planned.
In addition to tracking spray hours, your paint booth's control panel can track bake hours. In many paint booths it is even possible to preprogram bake cycles for your most often produced parts. Your control panel can also save some of your most commonly used paint recipes, making it easier to reproduce many common procedures in the future. Keeping your control panel software up to date can help to keep these processes running smoothly, allowing you to minimize repetitive user input and maximize efficiency.
Use High Quality Lighting
While it might be possible to cut some corners, you should not skimp on your lighting. Many clients want a specific shade of each color, and it is much easier to match colors in a well lit paint booth. While energy efficient light fixtures can be a great way to save money, you will want to make sure that there are no shadows in your paint booth and that it is well lit from every angle.
To learn more about the ways that you can maximize the efficiency of your paint booth, contact our team at Blueskyamr.
Take Care of All Routine Maintenance
While regular maintenance and upkeep my seem like an additional cost, it can actually help to decrease your long term operating costs. A well maintained paint booth will last much longer and will need far fewer expensive, unexpected repairs down the road.
Schedule Your Filter Changes Ahead of Time
Any paint booth expert will tell you that regular filter changes are one of the most important maintenance tasks for any paint booth. Your intake and exhaust filters will both need to be switched out periodically. Exhaust filters in particular are prone to clogging with heavy usage. They will typically need to be changed after 60 hours of spraying, or approximately once every 2 weeks.
Consider the Layout of the Shop
While your intake filter will eliminate a lot of the dust and dirt in the air, keeping the area surrounding your paint booth as clean as possible can go a long way towards keeping the inside of the booth clean. Most shops will work most efficiently if it is a one way track for the parts. Moving the parts from the prep area into the booth and then out the other side is usually a cleaner process than bringing painted parts back into the prep area. Think about your workflow when deciding where to set up your paint booth.
Keep and Eye on Your Control Panel
While this might seem obvious, your paint booth’s control panel can provide you with a lot of useful information about the current status of your paint booth components. One particularly useful piece of information is the number of spray hours your booth has logged since its last filter change. This is an easy way to tell if your filters will need to be changed sooner than expected or if you can wait a little longer to switch them out. Many control panels will even tell you if a filter is unexpectedly clogged, alerting the operator that it will need to be replaced sooner than originally planned.
In addition to tracking spray hours, your paint booth's control panel can track bake hours. In many paint booths it is even possible to preprogram bake cycles for your most often produced parts. Your control panel can also save some of your most commonly used paint recipes, making it easier to reproduce many common procedures in the future. Keeping your control panel software up to date can help to keep these processes running smoothly, allowing you to minimize repetitive user input and maximize efficiency.
Use High Quality Lighting
While it might be possible to cut some corners, you should not skimp on your lighting. Many clients want a specific shade of each color, and it is much easier to match colors in a well lit paint booth. While energy efficient light fixtures can be a great way to save money, you will want to make sure that there are no shadows in your paint booth and that it is well lit from every angle.
To learn more about the ways that you can maximize the efficiency of your paint booth, contact our team at Blueskyamr.
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