Case Study: Gutchess Lumber modernizes maintenance and slashes downtime with Ashcom Technologies' MaintiMizer Web Edition

Gutchess Lumber Builds on 100 Years of Success with MaintiMizer™ Web Edition

Gutchess Lumber, a 100-year-old hardwood manufacturer with five locations across New York and Pennsylvania, faced growing maintenance challenges as its informal word-of-mouth work-order system became unmanageable. Needing to organize work orders, inventory, preventive maintenance and reporting without adding staff, Gutchess searched for a computerized maintenance solution and selected MaintiMizer Web Edition from Ashcom Technologies.

Ashcom Technologies implemented MaintiMizer Web Edition, helping Gutchess build an asset inventory, parts library and preventive maintenance schedules and standardize work requests and approvals. The result: inventory levels stabilized, parts are available when needed, preventive maintenance is performed reliably, and Gutchess has gone more than two years without downtime caused by missing parts; the company also identified over 160 purchases from a single vendor and consolidated buys to save time and money. Gutchess has expanded MaintiMizer across the company for work orders, PMs and POs and plans further use for labor tracking and barcode inventory.

Gutchess Lumber

Ben Stuart

Environmental Compliance Officer and Plant Engineer