How Narbutas Revolutionised Its Maintenance Management with Alldevice

Richard

Jun 02, 2022
3 min read

Narbutas partnered with Alldevice to gain superior oversight of its maintenance processes, enable collaboration within the team and help plan actions according to specific needs. The solution is used by the company’s 10+ person maintenance team to align actions and plans.

Narbutas International – a Lithuanian producer with a global reach

Narbutas International is a Lithuanian office furniture producer, with its headquarters based in Vilnius and a factory in Ukmerge, Lithuania. Throughout its value chain, Narbutas employs more than 1300 people and has an annual turnover of 100M EUR. The product offering consists of desks, tables, storage and acoustic solutions, chairs, and lounge and soft furniture. The company’s products are exported to more than 60 countries globally, the main export markets being the UK, France, Germany, and the United States.

“We have decided in favor of Alldevice because having a common large database grant a better overview of the team’s current and future jobs. We used to record the same things separately on paper and then transfer them to Excel spreadsheets, which did not prove to be a very sustainable and transparent system.”

“Alldevice has helped us cut our downtime in half!”
– Audrius Bertašius, Head of Technical Department

Alldevice helps Narbutas fuel its ambitious growth targets

Prior to adopting Alldevice, Narbutas had been showing impressive growth for a number of years, and they realized that for the sake of maintaining their competitive advantage, they also needed to rethink their maintenance management processes. Having kept maintenance records in Excel so far, Narbutas discovered that with their growth expected to continue, they needed a dedicated solution for managing the maintenance of their growing equipment base. A solution that the entire 10+ person maintenance team would be able to use collaboratively, to align actions and keep records. They turned to Alldevice.

Using Alldevice helped Narbutas take a birds-eye approach to maintenance

By implementing Alldevice, Narbutas was able to extend the maintenance gap of its equipment. This was achieved by getting a superior overview of what needs to be done, where and when. Alldevice also provides a bird’s-eye-view of the entire maintenance organization and enables the division of tasks taking into account the entire chain of actions, as opposed to taking a role-based approach.

KPI-s are a natural part of the life of any production company – they are set and followed up on in the crucial stages of the production process to aid the detection of possible problems or shortcomings. After implementing Alldevice, Narbutas has access to a set of automatically generated KPIs, such as downtime. That is yet another to optimize production to ensure continuous improvement in productivity and efficiency.

“Our continued and accelerated growth led us to rethink our maintenance processes.”

Alldevice enables teamwork and collaboration – bringing everybody into the same information field

Among all other benefits, Alldevice provides an overview of the consequences of various maintenance actions – giving the team a superior way of troubleshooting possible failures or discrepancies in operations. That way, the team is able to backtrack and take corrective action to fix these issues.

Alldevice also provides new team members with the necessary information to accelerate their onboarding – all the necessary data is available in one central system.