Case Study: Hudsonville Ice Cream builds a predictive maintenance program with MaintainX

Hudsonville Ice Cream cuts procedure and work-order creation time by up to 90% with MaintainX

Hudsonville Ice Cream, a high-capacity ice cream manufacturer, faced significant challenges with unexpected downtime and an inefficient maintenance process. Their legacy CMMS was poorly adopted by technicians and failed to integrate with real-time machine data from their Ignition system, leaving valuable data unused. To build a predictive maintenance program, they sought a new solution from the vendor MaintainX.

By implementing MaintainX, Hudsonville created a single source of truth for work orders, communications, and asset manuals. MaintainX integrated with Ignition to automatically route machine signals into the CMMS, enabling continuous monitoring and usage-based maintenance. The results were substantial: technicians saved at least two hours per week on administrative tasks, AI tools cut procedure and work order creation time by up to 90%, and the company significantly reduced downtime.

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