Trinchero Family Estates is the second largest family owned
winery in the United States,
and we pride ourselves on having high quality equipment
and producing high quality wine. Accruent's Maintenance
Connection is the center of our maintenance department.
We run all of our jobs out of it,
We schedule all of our work out of it,
and we're able to improve all of our processes through it.
Prior to implementing Accruent Maintenance Connection software,
we had issues because the system was very fragmented.
We have many different maintenance departments
and they were each managing their assets and their work
orders in different ways.
Now that we have Maintenance Connection,
our process have been improved because all assets are
in one system.
And we're able to track our KPIs,
so we're able to track how well the department is doing.
We're also able to track total cost of ownership
and understand how much we're spending
on each asset, including labor and spare parts.
With Maintenance Connection,
we're also able to track our preventative work
and predictive work.
So we can track those two categories separately.
And now that we have that visibility,
we're able to say that we're over 70% on the proactive work.
Maintenance Connection is a good tool
to track capital work. We can track labor hours and all
the parts associated with it.
And we can get a final cost off the report as opposed
to searching different fields and adding things together.
My job is much easier now with what I have on order,
what's not on order, where the items are located,
and even the details as having pictures. I
can check transaction histories.
We can also log multiple vendors of who the parts from,
and we can directly see pricing
so we know to order from the cheaper vendor. Last year,
using Maintenance Connection, we
were able to save about $105,000 comparing vendors,
finding cheaper sources for our parts and quicker delivery
times.
Another measurable improvement we've
noticed since installing Maintenance Connection
is the availability of tracking work orders.
Now we're tracking them to about 90%, when before was around 50%.
We go into Maintenance Connection
inventory, we search for the part, and we
find the exact location.
And that really reduces the amount of time
to find the part.
And we get it,
put it on the machine, and it reduces the downtime
on the piece of equipment.
The system has allowed us to manage our spare parts
inventory much better to where we're not
having out of stock situations.
And then we're able to cut cost as
well because we can see what parts
we're using and where we can reduce the cost by outsourcing.
With Maintenance Connection,
we're able to see the bad actors.
So we're able to see the assets that
are causing us problems, where we're spending
most time, where we're putting most work into,
and where we're putting most spare parts into.
And then that will help us prioritize
where we should put our resources
and focus on improving that specific asset or
piece of equipment.
Now that we have Maintenance Connection, we're able to maintain the
equipment to a level that gives us a competitive edge,
and able to provide our customers the highest quality
product.