John­sonville, LLC — one of the most pop­u­lar sausage brands in the U.S. — had a sol­id SAP ERP sys­tem in place. But the team lacked a way to use this tech­nol­o­gy to sched­ule rou­tine and unex­pect­ed maintenance.

To fill this gap, Bob Mey­ers, Johnsonville’s busi­ness part­ner for oper­a­tions, sup­ply chain, and engi­neer­ing, and Chad Pen­nings, the company’s main­te­nance and reli­a­bil­i­ty ana­lyst, were tapped to imple­ment a new tech­nol­o­gy solu­tion and intro­duce it across Johnsonville’s facilities.

Both men talked with ASUG News about the sys­tem they designed to man­age the main­te­nance the com­pa­ny needs to keep pro­duc­tion lines run­ning smooth­ly. As a result of col­lab­o­rat­ing with teams across John­sonville, they devel­oped and launched a sys­tem that makes the best use of their main­te­nance staff at the right times.

Ann Marie: What’s your plant envi­ron­ment like at John­sonville? How many peo­ple are on your ser­vice team, and what are they respon­si­ble for maintaining?