Ibnu Pookkayil, Engineering Supervisor at Gosh! Food, a B Corp-certified food manufacturer in Milton Keynes, joins the Comparesoft CMMS Podcast to explain what running maintenance in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturing really involves.

Drawing on more than a decade of food-industry engineering, from a large plant in Saudi Arabia to a lean one-engineer-per-shift operation in the UK, Ibnu shares the disciplines that keep perishable products moving through tight delivery windows, and what an engineering team needs from a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).

In this episode, Ibnu talks about:

• What running maintenance at an FMCG manufacturer involves day to day
• How to prioritise when two production lines break down at once
• Why perishable products and tight delivery windows raise the cost of downtime
• The Friday planning meeting that brought maintenance under control
• Cutting reactive work from around 35 per cent to below 20 per cent
• How to approach preventive maintenance across older and newer lines
• The CMMS capabilities a small or mid-sized manufacturer actually needs
• Using fishbone (Ishikawa) analysis to break the firefighting cycle

Listen and read more: https://comparesoft.com/cmms-software/manufacturing/fmcg/