- Enterprise asset management (EAM) system manages and maintains manufacturing assets
- Improved operational efficiency with mobile-enabled engineers, better resource allocation, and predictive maintenance
- Powering ACC to increase production volume and support the automotive sector’s energy transition
By managing and maintaining more than 20,000 manufacturing assets with the EAM system, the Mercedes and Stellantis-owned company has improved operational efficiency and enabled both corrective and preventative maintenance.
Powering the energy transition through sustainable, affordable, high-capacity, and longer-life batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), ACC expects to manufacture batteries for 150,000 Stellantis vehicles by the end of 2025, with the first block currently in ramp-up. With its machines running for longer periods, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) EAM system allows ACC to repair assets quickly, saving time and money, and ultimately increasing production volumes.
François Carrot, Information System Director at ACC, explains, “Price competition is the first challenge for ACC. To win this battle and become a key player in the European energy transition, ACC focuses on scrap reduction and increasing overall equipment effectiveness. Our team understands the importance of adopting a modern and efficient EAM to manage and maintain the industrial assets that are critical to our strategic ambition. Better resource allocation and responsiveness underscore the operational efficiency at ACC, which is pivotal to the commercial performance of manufacturing businesses.”
Delivered by integrator Inoteam, the system setup includes plans and photographs for each ACC machine. Using mobile applications on tablets, engineers simply scan a QR code to access documentation associated with each of the 20,000+ assets. This includes information on periodical maintenance, the history of all operations performed, along with comments from the people who have worked on it. Being mobile-enabled allows ACC engineers to conduct maintenance rounds and record various values ‘on-the-go’. The centralized EAM also manages stock to ensure the availability of parts during repairs.
Johan Made, CEO at IFS Ultimo adds, “It is our mission to be easy to do business with. That requires us to deliver solutions that are easy to use and fast to deploy. With ACC, we saw a young company poised for growth that needed to catalogue all the machines in its facilities, including tracking all corrective and preventative maintenance to avoid breakdowns. They needed an EAM to provide a reference system. And they needed it fast. Rolled out to users in just six months, the engineers find it intuitive and rich in data.”
ACC’s digital transformation journey with IFS Ultimo will progressively continue, with the addition of functionality for purchasing, as well as health, safety, and environment (HSE) with permits.
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