Case Study: Fives Cinetic achieves modernized maintenance and reduced downtime with Ashcom Technologies' MaintiMizer BlackBox

Fives Cinetic Modernizes Maintenance Management with MaintiMizer™ BlackBox

Fives Cinetic, a West Yorkshire manufacturer of high-precision CNC grinding machinery, faced an ad hoc paper-based maintenance system that left the team reactive, lacking preventive schedules, asset histories, and the reporting needed for proactive management. To modernize maintenance without a costly enterprise rollout, they adopted Ashcom Technologies’ MaintiMizer BlackBox to bring site-level, IT-light maintenance management capabilities.

Ashcom Technologies implemented MaintiMizer BlackBox, enabling a preventive maintenance program that has cut breakdowns and unplanned downtime, provides advance warnings for machine outages to smooth plant capacity, and delivers custom KPI reports on downtime, backlogs, and schedule adherence. The system also lets internal customers submit and track work requests, improving transparency and saving staff time; while quantitative gains are still emerging, Fives Cinetic reports marked improvements and a more modernized maintenance function since deploying MaintiMizer BlackBox.

Fives Cinetic

Chris Hall

Maintenance Manager