Harvest Energy selects Mainsaver CMMS for UK’s largest biodiesel plant
Harvest Energy, one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of road fuels, has implemented Mainsaver CMMS from Spidex Software to help support a best-practice maintenance program at its production plant on Teesside. (Read More)
Harvest Energy’s biodiesel facility at Seal Sands has an output capacity of 250,000 metric tonnes per annum. It is the largest such plant in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.
Plant Manager Lee Wood led the CMMS evaluation, with the objective of finding a software solution that would make the process of scheduling critical preventative maintenance tasks quicker and more efficient. During this period, it emerged that a number of the site engineers had previously used Mainsaver at other industrial sites and spoke highly of its usability. This proved a significant factor in its eventual selection.
The Mainsaver project began with an install of the Mainsaver v.11.6 core modules Maintenance, Materials and Purchasing. This was followed by collection, formatting and upload of plant & asset data into the CMMS, to which was attached the new preventative maintenance schedule. The final stage was comprehensive system user training for the engineers.
Lee Wood is enthusiastic about the results he has seen to date. “Mainsaver has given us a fantastic tool with which to plan and prioritise plant maintenance activities to great effect” he says.
“On a site of this size, process plant uptime and efficiency are critical. We have already seen a reduction in equipment breakdown due to the implementation of preventative maintenance scheduling, one of the key features of Mainsaver.”
Spidex Managing Director Jonathan Starling commented: “It is a great pleasure to welcome Harvest Energy to the Mainsaver CMMS user community in the UK. When a successful company like Harvest deploys Mainsaver in such an important production facility, it is true testimony to the robustness and reliability of our CMMS offering.”
Harvest Energy already supplies more than 10% of the UK’s requirements and is working towards market leader position in the supply of motor fuels to independent retailers. There are now more than 100 distinctively-branded Harvest Energy forecourts in Britain and the company also supplies a wide commercial customer base that includes supermarkets, logistics firms, bus operators and local authorities.
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