EAMic® Case Study- Rieter China Plants

Dieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for short-staple fiber spinning. Based in Winterthur (Switzerland), the company develops and manufactures machinery, systems, and components used to convert natural and man-made fibers and their blends into yarns.  There are currently two manufacturing plants in China. The factory has professional manufacturing workshops, including sheet metal, machining, electrical, and assembly workshops for different products.

Overall, Rieter China's maintenance team has created a relatively complete maintenance management system, however, with the expansion of plants (currently there are two plants in China) and the increase of equipment, the maintenance team (including plant affairs) also faces the following challenges. 

• Based on paper and Excel spreadsheets, it is difficult to share and access the required information.

• Traditional telephone reports for maintenance are difficult to coordinate, relatively costly to communicate, and inefficient. 

• The scheduling and execution of preventive maintenance plans are difficult to control and land. 

• Failure analysis (root cause analysis, recurring failures) is difficult to accomplish statistically and systematically. 

• The management of maintenance documentation is cumbersome.

All of these points were especially penalizing due to the huge dimensions of the two plants.

After 4 weeks of joint efforts by both project teams:

The project was completed on schedule for two plants in China. 

The main solution of this project is to continuously improve the current state of plant maintenance management (new and old plants) by adopting the EAMic® plant maintenance management system and maintenance expansion management best practices. 

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