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CMMS Makes
Cooperage
Predictive
reactive maintenance in its
review mirror.
IN 1864, JACK DANIEL launched the fi rst registered distillery in
the United States. Today, Jack Daniel's is part of the Brown-Forman
family of brands producing and distributing spirits and wine worldwide.
Th e Jack Daniel's Cooperage, which opened in Trinity, AL, in
2014, is a facility where barrels or casks are made. Th e cooperage
creates thousands of barrels every week for Jack Daniel's and other
brands within Brown-Forman.
Martin Nelson is maintenance and engineering manager at Jack
Daniel's Cooperage. His team includes ten repair technicians and
eight preventive-maintenance technicians. Nelson and his team use
eMaint CMMS soſt ware and two types of vibration sensors from
Fluke Reliability, Everett, WA (emaint.com), to keep their facility
up and running.
By connecting condition-monitoring sensors with their maintenance
soſt ware, the cooperage team can automatically generate work
orders when their equipment exceeds temperature and vibration
thresholds. As a result, they've improved their preventive mainte26
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nance and moved into a predictive-maintenance culture.
While the whiskey is made with Jack Daniel's time-honored
and time-consuming process, the cooperage uses state-of-the art
technology to make its barrels. " Th e number one cost that goes into
a whiskey is the barrel, " Nelson said. " Th e barrels themselves are
made of American white oak from local mills. " To meet Jack Daniel's
exacting standards, Nelson's team has tested and proved the value of
various prototypes of custom barrel-making equipment for diff erent
parts of the process. In addition to the machinery used to make the
barrels, the cooperage has an extensive dust-collection system. All of
it requires strong attention to detail and a fi rm commitment to asset
management.
IMPLEMENTATION
Every technician on the team uses eMaint. Th e features they rely
on most are the work orders and inventory management. Th ey
have customized PMs to include images with captions explaining
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The Jack Daniels Cooperage
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of vibration sensors to put
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