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About Vancouros
With more than 25 years of history, Vancouros trades in bovine leather Wet Blue, Splits, and Leather prepared after tanning. The company has a high‑tech industrial complex with modern equipment, as well as an extremely qualified team to deliver the best product to its customers.
Meeting all the requirements of the demanding international market, Vancouros is a brand recognized for its credibility and professionalism in all stages of leather processing.
How Vancouros Discovered Engeman®
The search for a tool with the best solutions for Maintenance Planning and Control was what led Vancouros to get in touch with Engeman. After an internet search, the company analyzed the solution and all the tools and benefits it offers and decided on the Engeman® software.
“We got to know Engeman® through internet research on the best Maintenance Planning and Control solutions on the market,” said Alberto.
Challenges Faced
Like any company that does not have a management system, Vancouros also needed a tool to perform more assertive control of its processes. Talking to Alberto, he told us that they faced this problem, as you can see:
“Before implementing a specialist tool, we lacked control over the equipment for maintenance, and we did not have confidence in the solution we were using at the time.”
This problem is recurrent in many companies that, despite having some solutions, do not find them reliable and often see that they do not adapt and do not provide accurate KPIs for precise decision‑making.
In addition to these difficulties, during the process of acquiring Engeman®, they also reported problems with the high volume of corrective maintenance. We know that corrective maintenance is one of the most commonly used maintenance approaches in industry today, but its use can lead to high losses and have an impact on production and deliveries.
ERP Integration
The integration of information within the company is very important so that all systems from different departments can work in an integrated and automated way. For this, when searching for tools, you should consider whether the solution is capable of integrating with other systems.
Taking this into account, and knowing the importance of this integration, we asked Alberto how the Engeman® integration with the ERP they use there went, and how this shared information improved the asset management capability of Grupo Vancouros. Alberto told us:
“The integration was smooth and helped us in managing maintenance costs, since we control our warehouse materials in our ERP.”
Results
After requesting a demo and taking part in a presentation with Engeman® specialists, the solution was implemented, and Vancouros began to perform all of its maintenance management in an automated way, relying on a wide variety of management reports that are crucial for their decision-making.
We also asked Alberto how the results at Vancouros have been after using our solution. He told us they achieved the following results:
“Agility in the maintenance process, execution prioritization, reduced costs, more effective control of materials, and more powerful KPIs for top management.”
He also commented on the execution of maintenance work orders, as you can see:
“Engeman® helped organize the processes, creating metrics for control and generating powerful KPIs for decision‑making.”
Regarding the improvement of maintenance processes, Alberto went on to say:
“The software helped us organize and distribute tasks to the maintenance teams.”
Corrective Maintenance
Corrective maintenance is a type of maintenance that is performed after a failure or problem has occurred in equipment or a system. It is generally more expensive than preventive maintenance and can be very useful when the equipment suffers a failure or breakdown.
However, a smart maintenance manager knows that it is not safe to rely only on corrective maintenance, because for it to occur, the equipment has to be unavailable for use. Thus, we can consider that production is down.
Engeman® software is used to manage interventions. It has alerts that are configured so that preventive maintenance takes place before a more serious failure occurs and corrective maintenance has to be performed.
Knowing that this was one of Vancouros’ problems, excessive corrective maintenance, we asked Alberto whether they had managed to reduce or optimize the time and cost applied to corrective work. He told us: “Yes, we have considerably reduced corrective maintenance, even applying metrics offered by the solution. We can state that the reduction reached 60%.”
Conclusion
As you saw in this testimonial, Engeman® software is a CMMS specialized in maintenance management. It is a tool that enables your company to increase productivity and reduce costs associated with maintenance.
In this way, the maintenance planning and control function can design its entire strategy based on real data and reliable histories obtained through more than 300 available reports. And if you still need something additional, don’t worry. Engeman® is a flexible tool that allows any management report to be customized to meet all your needs.
Your maintenance management deserves the reliability that only Engeman® can offer! Talk to our specialists and learn more!
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