Computerized maintenance management could simplify preventive maintenance, reporting and compliance for the poultry industry.
“I think it’s important for folks to understand the impact that it can have on not only your day to day,” explained Luca Jordan, senior product marketing manager, Limble CMMS.
Computerized maintenance management also offers “higher level value that it adds from automating your reporting and really giving insight into your equipment, performance, downtime, productivity across the team, parts and labor costs and more,” she added
Preventing equipment downtime, improving compliance
By centralizing maintenance information, this technology helps to prevent equipment, machinery and infrastructure downtime.
Computerized maintenance management organizes data about preventive maintenance and maintenance strategy “to make sure that equipment is running super well. It can also create tasks that allows people to comply with whatever regulation there is,” said Bryan Christansen, CEO and Founder, Limble CMMS.
For example, say that a piece of equipment, like a waterer in a poultry house, requires regular maintenance. Computer maintenance management generates an automatic reminder that is sent to a technician’s cell phone. Managers then receive confirmation that the task is done.
Modernizing maintenance management
Computerized maintenance management replaces and improves upon traditional maintenance management programs that relied on hand-written notebooks or Excel files set up in house.
“There’s all sorts of data insight products that are based around generative artificial intelligence (AI),” explained Christansen. “There’s a lot of things that are going to come out a few years from now if not sooner, but you have to have one of these systems in place to really take advantage of all the data and all the AI technologies. Having it on paper or having it on Excel really handicaps your abilities to do anything.”
This technology can help “people produce a lot more by avoiding downtime, avoiding fines and shutdowns from compliance and keeping waste to a minimum,” he added, noting that keeping everything in compliance is important to keeping the birds healthy and productive.
