Remember the episode of Brewmasters on the Discovery Channel when Dogfish Head lost a bottling spigot in the beer? The brewery had to search through pallets of packaged bottles to find the missing tip.
So what did the brewery take away from the incident? If they had what they have now, it probably never would have happened. Asset Management software from Asset Point.
Asset management software allows maintenance crews to establish a maintenance schedule for manufacturing equipment using a variety of parameters, such as date, hours used, electricity consumed, or miles accumulated.
Knowing the state of your equipment is half the battle to efficiency. It prevents downtime, and equipment failures, like the spigot incident.
“We used spreadsheets and whiteboards. We weren’t even scheduling,” he says. “[Asset management software has] allowed us to plan our work a week at a time, so we know what everyone’s doing. It also allows us to track our emergency type work, so we can see the machines causing us the most grief and make some modifications.”
[CNBC]
