Overall Equipment Effectiveness gain within five months at the pilot factory.
Manufacturing case study
A CMMS implementation that delivered a 10% OEE improvement across 18 factories in five months.
The UK's leading building materials manufacturer operated 18 factories with a reactive maintenance model — equipment ran until it failed, breakdowns disrupted production, and maintenance knowledge lived in the heads of individual technicians rather than in any system. Eleco Technologies was engaged to transition the organisation to planned preventative maintenance, centralise asset management, and standardise processes across all 18 sites using a CAFM and CMMS solution.
+10%OEE improvement
Within 5 months of deployment
+13%Equipment availability
Planned vs reactive maintenance
18Factories covered
UK-wide standardised rollout
5 monthsTime to results
From pilot to measurable outcomes
Availability improvement through planned preventative maintenance.
Standardised CMMS processes deployed across all UK factories.
Client challenge
What the organisation needed to solve
The organisation's run-to-fail maintenance approach created predictable but costly problems: unexpected breakdowns, production delays, and over-reliance on the institutional knowledge of experienced engineers who were approaching retirement. There was no formal asset management strategy and no consistent maintenance records across sites. Introducing a digital system required overcoming significant resistance to change from engineers who had worked the same way for years, capturing tacit knowledge that had never been documented, and building a solution scalable enough to work across 18 factories with different equipment and operational requirements.
Eleco Technologies solution
How the platform addressed the problem
Eleco Technologies implemented the OTC FMS CMMS system, beginning with a thorough analysis of maintenance processes at the Leicester factory. The implementation covered four areas: asset identification and categorisation with detailed maintenance schedules and inspection histories; a planned preventative maintenance programme replacing the reactive break-fix model; centralised data and standardised processes enabling cross-site performance analysis; and mobile accessibility allowing engineers to log maintenance activities and access asset records directly from smartphones and tablets on the factory floor.
Delivery model
Structured engineering delivery with clear team, timeline, and stack evidence.
Team composition
CMMS implementation consultants
Reliability engineering support
Change management and training specialists
Asset Management Lead collaboration (Amelia Flynn)
Delivery approach
Started with a single factory pilot at Leicester to prove the model, generate measurable results, and build internal buy-in before rolling out to the remaining 17 sites.
Worked with reliability engineers to create detailed maintenance checklists aligned with industry best practices, capturing tacit knowledge from experienced technicians into the system.
Prioritised mobile accessibility from the outset — engineers working on heavy equipment needed real-time access to asset records and maintenance checklists without returning to a computer terminal.
Technology stack
OTC FMS CMMSCAFMMobile maintenance appAsset management databasePlanned preventative maintenance workflowsCompliance documentation management
Measured outcomes
Operational results that make the engagement commercially credible.
Achieved a 10% increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) within five months of deploying the CMMS at the Leicester factory.
Improved equipment availability by 13% through proactive maintenance that minimised unexpected breakdowns and production disruptions.
Standardised maintenance processes across all 18 factories, capturing experienced engineers' knowledge and making it available to new recruits through the system.
Improved health and safety compliance by centralising service reports, statutory inspections, and remedial actions in a single accessible location.
"The transition to OTC FMS system has allowed us to create consistent maintenance processes across all factories. Instead of firefighting, our engineers now have time to focus on proactive maintenance, which has greatly reduced the number of equipment breakdowns and improved productivity."
— Amelia Flynn, Asset Management Lead
Evidence points
What the delivered system included
Reactive to planned preventative maintenance transition across 18 UK factories
10% OEE and 13% equipment availability improvement within five months
Mobile-accessible CMMS enabling engineers to log maintenance from the factory floor
Centralised health and safety documentation, statutory inspections, and remedial actions
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