The Challenge: This Fortune 500 company is a leading manufacturer servicing the Food and Beverage industry with more than 30 global locations. Their plants run 24/7 and like most asset-intensive manufacturers, they place a premium on lowest total cost of ownership and high asset availability. Situation: Spare parts inventory was growing year over year without a direct link to improving equipment availability. Project Objectives: ?Reduce MRO parts investment resulting in improved use of working capital ?Improve MRO availability thereby increasing maintenance productivity (wrench time) ?Establish metrics (KPI’s) that align corporate efforts to attain program goals ?Execute without taxing site resources or adding head count The Solution: The client turned to Xtivity for mu

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