Focus Print Group Case Study: Optimising Maintenance Operations with Connexus
Overview
Focus Print Group is one of Australia’s leading print manufacturers with over 12,000 sqm in printing facilities across Australia. Everyday Focus Print Group handles a high volume of orders and wanted to ensure asset uptime is always optimal which would help boost production efficiency across its operations.
Goals
Find a cost effective and robust CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) which can cover the following:
Asset Management: Efficiently manage and track all their assets.
Job Scheduling: Simplify the scheduling process for technicians to ensure timely maintenance.
Preventive Maintenance: Create preventive maintenance routines and regular inspections for their production equipment.
Expenditure Tracking: Get better insight into the expenses occurred with asset maintenance and asset replacements.
Challenges Previously Faced
Manual Processes: We didn’t have a dedicated system in place for asset and maintenance management. This caused more manual processes and more administrative tasks for the team.
Lack of transparency: Having a large volume of assets comes with burdens for any business. We wanted more control over equipment breakdowns and better insight into our assets health and maintenance history.
Asset Management: Knowing when assets should be replaced has been a difficult task for us over the years. By leveraging data, we can now forecast future asset replacements and can do repair vs replace analysis on the assets causing us the biggest headaches.
Why we chose Connexus?
Feature Rich: The software is robust and had features and modules we didn’t know could be valuable to us. The scalability of the software also played a large part in our decision.
Cost effective: We looked at multiple options and found that for the price Connexus would provide us with the best outcome.
Innovation: Since starting with Connexus we have seen some great new features implemented and think it is refreshing dealing with a vendor which is forward thinking and understands what is needed in the market.
Overall Impact
We have seen an impressive ROI from using Connexus which is pleasant as from past experiences not all software programs have yielded us positive results. Our asset management has been taken to new heights and by creating preventive maintenance routines and by completing regular inspections we have reduced equipment downtime by over 20% within the first 6 months, which has resulted in fewer production halts and higher overall equipment effectiveness. We have also identified many operational gaps and have now created strategies to further improve our future asset and maintenance operations.