eMaint News

New Customers Choose eMaint CMMS in the New Year

eMaint's CMMS user base has grown consistently throughout it's 25 years in business. eMaint is pleased to have surpassed 5000 users in 2011 and welcomes several more this New Year. 

Magna- AIM Systems: Magna Systems International Inc (MAGNA) is a decade experienced end-to-end IT solutions provider based in Michigan and offering Enterprise IT Applications development (Onsite and offsite) and IT Consulting services to Fortune 1000 Clients and Integrators nationwide.

B&W Quality Growers: B&W Quality Growers is the world's largest grower of watercress and one of America's oldest family farmers. Started in 1870, B&W attributes its success to a single premise of quality.

US Pack Group: Design, distribute, and manufacture packaging for personal care, food and beverage, automotive, cleaning products, and other specialized markets.

Closure Systems International: CSI is the leading supplier of closure and capping systems to the global beverage and food industries. 

City of Minneapolis (Traffic and Parking):The Minneapolis Municipal Parking System is comprised of 17 parking ramps and 8 surface lots. These Ramps and Lots encompass over 20,000 parking spaces. Conveniently located in the warehouse, entertainment, and business districts, these facilities are under the direction of the City of Minneapolis Public Works Department, Traffic and Parking Services Division.

Northstar Agri Industries: A fully integrated canola processing and refining facility.

Faith Management: Added an additional location to the eMaint team.  

All Maintenance: A new contract maintenance facility. 

eMaint has enjoyed working with all of their CMMS customers throughout the years and looks forward to a long lasting partnership with those that join this year. 

 

Plant Services Featured Article: "Behind the Glass"

eMaint is proud to share that Boyd Helm, Maintenance Manager at Cardinal Glass and eMaint X3 CMMS user, has been featured in the December issue of Plant Services for his success with eMaint's CMMS system.

Boyd recently hosted eMaint's User Group Summit in Buford, Georgia and shared his story with other X3 users while providing a tour of Cardinal's world-class manufacturing facility. 

eMaint and Boyd have developed a strong partnership that has helped others using a CMMS understand the true benefits and possibilities of a maintenance management system.

The article "Behind The Glass" discusses how with the help of a CMMS and stronger team communication, Boyd was able to shrink downtime to less than 1%, reduce labor hours by 43%, decrease overtime by 60%, and increase daily production by 40%. This resulted in a strong operating profit of 45%, after several unprofitable years. 

To read the whole story click here. 

eMaint enjoys sharing the success of their customers and often highlights how their customers utilize X3 to make a difference at their organization. To read additional customer success stories visit eMaint's case study page. 

    

eMaint Is Pleased to Announce the Addition of Several New Clients

eMaint Enterprises has been providing CMMS solutions since 1986. Throughout the years, many companies have looked to eMaint to meet their maintenance and reliability needs.

Milne Fruit- Milne Fruit Products has built a strong reputation by delivering quality fruit juices and purees along with outstanding service to the food and beverage markets since 1956.

Reflexite- At Reflexite our business is Saving Lives and Saving Energy. Within our Reflective Solutions business, we work to save lives by increasing visibility and recognition. Our Energy Solutions business saves energy by reducing energy consumption and increasing efficient use of renewable resources such as solar energy.

Texas County Memorial Hospital- Texas County Memorial Hospital is a sixty-six-bed, general acute care institution offering medical care for all your primary care needs including emergency services, surgery, obstetrics , laboratory, radiology, cardiopulmonary and physical therapy. 

Evergreen Sweetners-  Largest independent, full-service sweetener supplier in Florida with multiple locations.

Klear Facilities- Klear Facilities is a full service facility maintenance company, focusing in providing cost effective maintenance management solutions for facilities and properties of organizations in Connecticut.

Enviva Biomass added eMaint to another one of their locations- Established in 2004, Enviva provides clean, sustainable, renewable woody biomass to industrial-scale customers

Thank you for choosing eMaint. We look forward to helping you improve upon your maintenance operations. 

 

Welcome To The eMaint Community!

eMaint Enterprises is proud to have the following companies as X3 CMMS customers. We are excited to provide you with our maintenance management solution. 

• Amigos Food
• Brown and Caldwell
• Denbury Resources Inc.
• Avalon Healthcare
• Town of Snow Hill Cityy
• One Up Innovations
• LBP
• City of West University
• IBA-Group

We look forward to helping you achieve maintenance and reliability success! 

Click here to read customer success stories.

Maintenance Management Expo In Brazil

 

On Monday, September 19th, 2011 eMaint Enterprises will be represented at the 26th Brazilian Congress of Maintenance Expo by Sergio Plaut, eMaint Market Development Manager. The Expo will take place from September 19th -23rd and focus on maintenance and sustainability, with participants representing the top segments of the Brazilian economy.

 

Sergio Plaut, fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English, has over 30 years experience working for multinational corporations. Plaut will be attending the conference in Curitiba, PR within the campus of Positivo University. Sergio will be there to connect with current eMaint clients such as Hospital das Clinicas as well as meeting potential clients. eMaint has been serving customers in Brazil since 2006.

 

 Visit the EXPOMAN 2011 event site for more information. 

Justify Your CMMS With This Month's Free Best Practice Webinar

Wednesday, August 17th, Ralph Peters, President of Maintenance Excellence Institute, will be following up on the popular Best Practices Webinar, "Benchmarking Your CMMS", with additional material on cost justifying a CMMS system. 

Ralph W. "Pete" Peters will be discussing detailed CMMS justification factors from his book, Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practices: A Profit and Customer-Centered Approach, with a real life case study from Argentina's largest steel maker, SIDERAR.

The case study will document the CMMS evaluation/selection process used, the projected benefits and ROI to cost justify system implementation and to validate actual results over time. For current users you will understand how to gain better value from an existing system and validate current ROI to top leaders.

Best Practices are enhanced by an effective new CMMS or an improved existing CMMS. You will learn: 

• 7 key steps for gaining maximum value from a system
• developing economic justification
• implementing key best practices
• improving overall craft productivity.

Whether you looking to purchase a CMMS or are a veteran user, you and your team can benefit from Ralph Peters' overview of CMMS selection, justification, and best practices enhancement from what is your "maintenance business system" for profit and customer service. 

Register Now for this informative session on August 17th at 1PM Eastern Time.

NOTE: One  attendee will be selected at random and will receive a free signed copy of Ralph Peters book,Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practices: A Profit and Customer-Centered Approach. 

 

New Customer Spotlights

eMaint Enterprises is pleased to welcome the following companies to it's user community. 

 

Brownlee Lumber Company, Inc.: Today, BLC is a family-owned and -operated modern complex of sawmills, dry kilns and planer mill in the heart of the most beautiful hardwoods in the world. A second generation of the Brownlee family has joined in the management and operation of the company, and we are proud to provide our customers with hardwood products of exceptional value.

CormeTech: State-of-the art SCR catalyst manufacturing facilities are located in Durham, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee. Our high-tech and flexible manufacturing processes are among the best in the world and is ISO 9002 certified. With superior engineering, experience and innovation, we provide customers with proven catalyst solutions for NO_x emission control.

Medifast: Medifast is an effective weight less meal replacement program. With Medifast, you can lose up to 2-5 lbs per week safely and quickly without feeling hungry

South Louisiana Community College: You will find that SLCC is a college where innovation is an expectation and care is commonplace. SLCC remains true to our mission as we seek to improve the quality of life for residents of South Louisiana. SLCC serves students throughout eight parishes   

GE Railcar Services: GE Capital, Rail Services has roots in the railroad and intermodal sectors that span nearly a century. We offer a combination of industry experience, leadership, innovation, and financial strength. Whether you seek solutions for optimizing your fleet operations, simplifying logistics, streamlining maintenance, or improving your balance sheet, GE provides focused solutions through dedicated account managers.

Welcome aboard. eMaint looks forward to a long-lasting partnership. Check out additional customer spotlights here. 

 

Rapid City Regional Airport Uses eMaint X3 To Consistently Meet FAA Audits

Background

Rapid City Regional Airport located in Rapid City, South Dakota provides hundreds of commercial flights to seven major U.S. destinations through four major airlines. The 15-person maintenance department is responsible for maintaining the runways and five facilities spanning over 2,000 acres of land, including removal of over 3 feet of annual snowfall. Doug Curry, Deputy Airport Director for Facilities and Maintenance, joined the Rapid City team in November 2009 after going on terminal leave from the Air Force.

Challenge

Doug Curry instantly realized the need for a formal CMMS system, as the airport currently was relying on memory and hand-written binders to handle all maintenance activities. Having utilized a CMMS in the Air Force, he knew he needed a system that was fully-featured yet easy to use to ensure adoption by his staff, none of whom had used a system previously. Faced with an annual FAA inspection, Doug needed a simpler and more reliable way to track historical data on compliance with FAA regulations in order to retain status as a commercial airport. The maintenance department also needed a system that could manage work requests from airport tenants including rental car agencies, gift shops, restaurants and the four airlines.

Implementation

eMaint X3 Online was chosen by Doug in May, 2009 based on its flexibility, customizable fields, and ease of use. The system also allowed Doug to introduce new features gradually so that training could be done at a manageable pace. Currently, the eMaint system helps generate, assign and close out scheduled and corrective work as well as managing work requests. Rapid City implemented the work request “weblink” which allows tenants and employees to submit a request by clicking a link on their website. Curry was able to readily enter PM procedures into the system by copying and pasting from the FAA website. PMs are now generated automatically and Shift Chiefs can effortlessly assign open work orders at the start of their shift. Work orders are prioritized by type, allowing safety issues to be addressed first.

Benefits

● With historical data on PMs, work orders, and work requests, Rapid City has the ability to readily provide FAA regulators with documented proof of compliance with PAR 139 standards.

● Maintenance department has ability to more readily capture and troubleshoot corrective maintenance and ability to auto-generate PMs.

● Stored procedures for recurring activities ensure work is performed consistently and shortens the learning curve for new technicians.

● eMaint X3 reduced time wasted on redundant activities by providing information indicating which jobs were already completed.

● In the next phase of his X3 implementation, Doug plans to track labor hours, parts and associated costs for better tracking of maintenance spend.

7 Critical Success Factors for Storeroom Organization - Free Best Practice Webinar

This month eMaint was pleased to welcome Doug Wallace,  Materials Management Expert for Life Cycle Engineering, for their Best Practices webinar series. During this webinar Doug discussed the mission of materials management as well as the 7 critical factors for successful storeroom organization. 

The mission of Materials Management is to provide the right parts at the right time at the least possible total cost to the company. With poor storeroom organization companies face various pitfalls such as:

• Providing the wrong quantity of parts
• Holding parts with unacceptable quality
• Providing the wrong parts
• Increased costs due to unnecessary delays

However, by following the 7 critical success factors, Maintenance Departments can house materials in a safe, clean, secure and organized environment. The seven critical success factors include:

1. Infrastructure
2. Location
3. Accessibility
4. Physical Layout
5. Logical Layout
6. Visual Management
7. Space Utilization 

Missed the webinar? No worries,  learn more and check out the whole presentation here.

These CMMS Best Practices webinars are a value-added service presented by eMaint Enterprises.

Learn How To Organize Your Storeroom For Success With a Free Best Practices Webinar

Join eMaint TOMORROW in welcoming Doug Wallace, Materials Management Expert for Life Cycle Engineering, as he delivers this month’s Best Practice webinar “Organize Your Storeroom For Success.”

Does your storeroom contribute to the success of your Materials Management personnel?

Successful Materials Management is achieved by providing the right parts at the right time at the least possible total cost to the company. Personnel must rely on storeroom organization to achieve key objectives such as efficient procurement and storeroom processes, warehouse practices, and inventory controls.

Tune into this webinar to find out exactly where your storeroom challenges lie, and hear some of the suggestions designed to fix or even prevent them. 

Learn how the storeroom contributes to the success (or failure) of Materials Management personnel in

meeting the expectations of your customers in Maintenance and Operations.

Examine potential pitfalls such as:

The infrastructure of the storeroom itself

• The infrastructure of the storeroom itself
• Location of the storeroom
• Accessibility to the storeroom
• Physical Layout within the storeroom

See how Bin Identification schemes, Visual Management Techniques, Space Utilization, and Handling Equipment can aid in avoiding or correcting area issues.

Register now or click here to watch additional free best practice webinars.