Preventive Maintenance Implementation

$150M Manufacturing Company

Background

  • Global leader in flexible space management and operable partitions
  • World’s most installed brand of operable partitions and movable glass walls
  • Founded in 1900 with headquarters in Janesville, WI with 201-500 Employees
  • Acquired by global PE firm in 2017

Contributions

  • Learned the functionality of Fiix and how it could best be applied to develop a preventive maintenance (PM) program
  • Developed PM procedures for all “critical to production” equipment and created PM schedules for each line and each piece of support equipment
  • Installed Best Practice maintenance KPIs of mean time to repair (MTTR), PM schedule completion, overall schedule completion, and mean time between failure (MTBF), and added to the organization’s dashboard to ensure sustainability of the overall preventive maintenance efforts

Results

  • Portco has firmly established a preventive maintenance mindset and practices
  • The cloud-based CMMS (Fiix) is the new standard for maintenance practices of PM, work identification, work request and maintenance planning
  • The maintenance manager is fully trained on the Fiix system, and has established himself as the leader of the maintenance leader for the facility
  • Maintenance communication is now robust, with weekly maintenance schedules tied to production requirements
  • Many hidden issues that could have shut down production for extended time were uncovered and addressed