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ing downtime and start showing them the
uptime. "
VIBRATION MONITORING
Approximately 31 staves go into making
each barrel. Th e staves are precisely shaped
on all sides with the cooperage's specialized
equipment. Th ousands of barrel staves
are processed each shiſt . " Since we're in
the woodworking business, we have a vast
dust-collection system, " explained Nelson.
" If that dust-collection system goes down, it
shuts the operation down. "
Th e cooperage uses vibration sensors
Above. The eMaint CMMS has played a major role in helping the Jack Daniel's Cooperage move from
reactive/preventive maintenance to a predictive-maintenance culture.
Opposite. The Jack Daniel's Cooperage uses vibration sensors and eMaint CMMS to keep its custom barrel-making
assets operating at peak effi ciency.
what needs to be done. " I have several PM
reports that autogenerate to me and give me
the status of open PMs, overdue PMs, and
PM completion percentage, which is huge, "
he said. " We are slated to have 100% PM
completion on a weekly basis. " Th e workorder
system in eMaint has been a crucial
tool for the cooperage in helping to plan
and prioritize the work that gets done.
" One of the nice things about eMaint is I
can diff erentiate work orders, " Nelson said.
" I segregate all the project stuff out versus
what's going on in real time. "
Nelson said he uses several diff erent
categories of work orders, including RCCA
(root cause and corrective action), safety
work, corrective maintenance, TPM (total
productive maintenance), and emergency
maintenance. Identifying what's most
urgent, for example, or what will require
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specialized parts or labor, helps the team
ensure they have the resources they need
when and where they need them.
RESULTS
" Working with the developers of eMaint
has been overall a good experience, and
I've been told that some of the things
we're doing have never been done before, "
Nelson said. " What's always the fun part is
the development of diff erent processes to
help mitigate risk of downtime and make
a business unit stronger. And when you're
stronger, you're more profi table, right? "
Th e revamped inventory-management
system that is used at the Jack Daniel's
Cooperage has been so successful that other
facilities within Brown-Forman will soon
implement it. " Th e buy-in comes when you
demonstrate the eff ectiveness of mitigaton
the gearboxes, blowers, bearings, and
motors that are part of the dust-collection
system. Th e cooperage uses two types of
vibration-monitoring sensors from Fluke
Reliability: VibGuard sensors and Fluke
vibration sensors. Th e sensors and soſt ware
work together to keep the maintenance
team updated on how equipment is operating.
" I like the way that it does the reporting
and autogenerates the work orders when
it's out of its threshold-over the temperature
or vibration, " Nelson said. VibGuard
vibration sensors off er advanced alarm tools
to monitor for specifi c failures.
With access to real-time machine health
data in their CMMS, maintenance teams
can advance their connected reliability journey.
Connected reliability is about centralizing
data from diff erent systems and tools
to make it readily accessible and actionable.
Pairing sensors and soſt ware makes a more
holistic approach possible, where teams are
able to plan rather than react. " I'm running
Fluke vibration sensors on a lot of my A
class equipment, " Nelson said. " Now we're
not only getting our preventive maintenance
where it needs to be, we've also moved into
the predictive maintenance side. " EP
For more information about eMaint,
VibGuard, and Fluke vibration sensors,
visit emaint.com.
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