The problem

Today’s competitive marketplace sees manufacturing companies trying to drive costs down while driving production up. In asset intensive production environments this means demanding more from plant and equipment while controlling maintenance costs. Well maintained plant is reliable and consumes less energy, produces less wate and emissions and is therefore more environmentally friendly.  As a result, effective maintenance of physical assets becomes key to a company’s profitability and long-term sustainability.

When evaluating any plant maintenance system you should ask the following questions:

1. What percentage of your operating costs are maintenance related, and how exactly will this be reduced?
2. If you could increase plant reliability how much more profit contribution could you make?
3. Is your "ERP centric" planned maintenance system too complex and therefore unused by those who most need the information?
4. Do you need to tighten up on maintenance procurement processes especially spares and consumables?
5. Is your warehouse full of obsolete spares and the maintenance shop full of useful spares in the cupboards of engineers?
6. Is your maintenance system integrated into your operational safety systems including work permits?

Managing the entire maintenance process

OptiRUN™ is a proven software solution for managing plant maintenance activities.  It has been designed around the needs of engineers and maintenance staff, and is arguably the most user friendly maintenance solution on the market.  Complexity has been eliminated without sacrificing system capabilities and features.  The result is that OptiRUN™  is far preferred above more expensive systems that are too complex to manage in demanding production environments.

OptiRUN™  helps you manage maintenance activities, plan and schedule preventative maintenance, handle shutdown execution, monitor and improve maintenance department service levels, manage plant and equipment information, manage spares procurement and inventory and report on maintenance costs and key performance indicators (KPI's).

OptiRUN™  has been proven for over 15 years in industry and incorporates significant learning and experience. The product is efficient and easy to use,  ensures compliance to maintenance procedures, manages engineering information, controls work order processes, improves management of inventory, provides visibility and traceability and drives continuous improvement.    

Benefits

Implementing OptiRUN™  will lead to improved operations performance through improving plant reliability and throughput,  as well as directly reducing maintenance costs.  In addition there are several other benefits:

1. Defer capital expenditure through ensuring plant runs at maximum capacity
2. Avoid expensive and excessive downtime
3. Prioritising and managing corrective maintenance work
4. Improved scheduling of planned maintenance activities
5. Improved management of equipment information such as datasheets, drawings and other documentation
6. Improved safety by integration to IntelliPERMIT™
7. Track the costs of spares, manage spares procurement, manage engineering stores

What do our customers say about OptiRUN™?

• "OptiRUN™ is the only solution of its kind here in South Africa, and upon learning more about its capabilities, it seemed to be exactly what we needed. ApplyIT has been a good business partner providing a high level of service and are always there when we need them."  Alan van Schoor - DCD-Dorbyl
• "The SALT telescope must be up 99% of the time.  Because we are so remote, we need a significant stock of spares on hand. We hold different spares, many of them purpose-built up-front when the telescope itself was being designed and constructed.   ApplyIT has been an ideal partner: "Not only did they do everything they could to make their software affordable for us as an academic organisation; they have also provided excellent training and support." - Dawid Fourie - South African Large Telescope - Sutherland
• “OptiRUN™ has provided a complete solution for us to store and access information needed to manage the plant maintenance process in a consistent and structured manner for a more responsive business and a safer working environment."  Gordon Davey, Dulux (part of Akzo-Nobel)

For more information

You can obtain more information including brochures, datasheets and case studies on this web site or by contacting ApplyIT.  Please don't hesitate - our team will be pleased to help you.