AI-Enabled Process Intelligence for Plant Maintenance

Anyone involved in making or shipping physical products understands the pain of downtime. Whether planned or unplanned, downtime disrupts manufacturing processes, causing significant issues when equipment is not operational. Disruptions can ripple through the entire value chain, leading to increased costs, revenue leakage, and negatively impacting both customer and supplier experiences. Ultimately resulting in higher downtime, elevated expenses, and reduced overall productivity.

According to a study published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 15-70% of a manufacturer’s overall cost is associated with maintenance of their plants. Manufacturing-based organizations are sitting on valuable insights with the advancement of machine-level IoT and digital process automation. However, bringing this information together into a command center to allow for proactive scheduling and predictability has long been a challenge. Ashling’s Plant Maintenance application provides a continuous command center to explore opportunities of improvement and address the top use cases that have challenged manufacturing operations for a long time.

Introducing: The Maintenance Activation Control Center

Ashling Partners has built the Maintenance Activation Control Center, powered by Celonis. This application, part of our core manufacturing command center, is built on Ashling’s lean analytical framework.

Our solution provides event and value-based monitoring of plant floor machine operations. It delivers critical alerts and status updates on breakdowns and operator activities while proactively notifying technicians of high-risk scenarios. Ensuring efficient machine operation monitoring, this application also alerts for breakdowns, and timely notifications for technicians about potential high-risk scenarios involving break-fix activities