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Puratos increases uptime

Puratos, headquartered in Groot-Bijgaarden (Belgium), is a global producer of bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients. Last year the maintenance department of Puratos started an improvement process together with a team of Mainnovation, the process resulted in a improvement of asset reliability and inter-departmental transparency.

Evides Waste Water improves Asset Management

Evides Industriewater supply different types of water services to Dutch, German and Belgian industry. They provide operational management and maintenance of 35 installations for waste water treatment, demineralized water, process water and cooling water to their various customers. The specific requirements of every customer with regard to quality, quantity, guarantee of supply...

ConAgra Foods boosts maintenance performance with VDM

ConAgra Foods is a multi brand food producer with over 40 manufacturing sites in the USA, a turnover of 12 billion dollars per year and the ambition to become a global top 10 market player.

In 2009 ConAgra started a structured and company wide improvement program called the ConAgra Performance System (CPS) to improve business performance and shareholder value by standardizing...

VDM improvement prject at Leaf

Leaf België Production NV is a manufacturing site and part of Leaf International, a leading sugar confectionary company in Europe. Leaf is active in Lean Manufacturing and required that they maintenance process was linked to this.

Following a VDM audit Mainnovation advised to implement a new organization model, including the extra function of 'Reliability Engineer'. This...

Enecogen case story

Enecogen is a partnership between Eneco (NL) and Dong Energy (DK) constructing a power station at the Maasvlakte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant with a capacity of approximately 870 megawatts was recently started up and has been fully operational since November 2011. The highly automated green field plant is managed by a...