Finsbury Food Group selects Mainsaver
CMMS for “Operating Brilliance” programme
Spidex Software is delighted to
announce that leading speciality
bakery Finsbury Food Group has
selected Mainsaver CMMS for its seven
manufacturing sites across the UK.
Finsbury produces a wide range of
cakes, bread and bakery snack products
for major retailers and foodservice
providers.
The selection of Mainsaver CMMS is just
one part of a company-wide efficiency
improvement drive at Finsbury called
the “Operating Brilliance” programme. In
terms of the engineering maintenance
element, the programme seeks to
uniformly improve asset management
across all its sites with standardised
KPIs and reporting systems.
Finsbury Engineering Manager Peter
Saint commented: “We have grown
significantly over the last decade
through acquisition of strategic
businesses, and it’s fair to say that each
factory in the group is at a different
stage in its journey to engineering
excellence.”
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“There were a number of legacy
CMMS systems in place at our various
manufacturing sites and we identified a
need to standardise across the business.”
To that end, a series of product
demonstrations from the incumbent
CMMS providers were arranged, at the
end of which Mainsaver emerged as the
preferred solution.
“We assessed that Mainsaver was
the system that closest matched our
requirements” says Peter Saint. “It was
already installed and working at one of
our factories, and in Spidex, we knew we
were choosing a supplier with a proven
track record in the food industry.”
A project study was then carried out
by Spidex at each Finsbury plant to
determine its current position in respect
of asset management and how this links
with the Operating Brilliance programme.
A schedule of activity was agreed in
each case to ensure Mainsaver CMMS
supports the company’s overall asset
management objectives.
Finsbury anticipates a number of benefits
from the group-wide installation of
Mainsaver CMMS, through implementing
a maintenance management regime
which will further improve the
performance of its asset base and
through better visibility and control of its
spares inventory.
Another key factor is food safety,
auditing and compliance. “As a food
manufacturing business we need
to ensure that all our maintenance
work is logged, archived and thereby
traceable” says Peter Saint. “Auditors
and customers need to see that we are in
control and that we record everything we
do. Mainsaver will be key to this.”
Spidex Managing Director Jonathan
Starling commented: “Operating
Brilliance is a very important programme
and we are proud that Finsbury Food
Group has selected Mainsaver CMMS
to support its asset management
objectives.”
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