Enterprise Asset Management System for Food & Beverage

TabWare is a perfect Enterprise Asset Management System for the food and beverage industry where success depends on the performance of their assets.

With today’s focus on lean manufacturing, operators are handling more equipment maintenance tasks, such as intermediate cleaning, lubrication, equipment inspections and some troubleshooting. Also, with recent economic conditions and the downsizing of workforces, the number of employees with advanced maintenance skills has been declining steadily. So, how do you maximize asset performance and control costs?

At AssetPoint, we understand the nature of maintenance within the food and beverage industry. TabWare for Food and Beverage helps manufacturers manage their maintenance, spare parts inventory and purchasing operations to maximize asset performance while controlling costs. TabWare provides support for complex food equipment maintenance as well as transitioning from break-fix maintenance to more planned and scheduled maintenance. TabWare helps improve line efficiency and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

TabWare for Food and Beverage also supports stringent requirements of audit standards under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) by storing procedures and recording actions taken.

With TabWare, you can:

• Manage your work backlog with TabWare’s work order management software
• Easily handle Preventive and Predictive Maintenance PM and PdM programs and monitor compliance
• Open, complete and close work orders with a single function to capture work after the fact.
• Transition to planned maintenance by easily accessing completed work orders and copying the labor, parts, etc. to a new work order with a single mouse click.
• Improve technician wrench time 30%-50% by reserving parts and material for work orders in TabWare’s spare parts inventory management module minimizing technician travel time
• Quickly determine if parts are available and easily create requisitions
• Record operator-performed maintenance
• Track any type of event such as accidents, emissions, inspections, audits and spills and manage follow up activities
• Track equipment history and manage equipment warranties
• Streamline procurement and support centralized and/or distributed purchasing with TabWare’s purchase order tracking software
• Manage contractor costs and payment authorizations through vendor invoice processing
• Support Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs
• Control costs and assure regulatory compliance through enforced approval limits, work flow and negotiated pricing agreements prior to commitment and expenditure

TabWare for Food and Beverage not only helps you control costs and maximize asset performance but also helps improve your operation. TabWare is an Enterprise Asset Management software (EAM) solution which is also commonly referred to as a Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) solution.

For more information on how you can help improve your uptime and control costs, download the AssetPoint Food Industry Solutions report.