Recurring breakdowns, unplanned downtime, and excessive spare parts inventory? Ekium helps you improve the reliability of your equipment, optimize your maintenance strategies, and implement predictive maintenance using Industry 4.0 technologies.
From auditing your maintenance department to designing customized maintenance plans, managing scheduled shutdowns and digitizing processes, we put our expertise to work to enhance your operational availability.
Our approach
Maintenance Plans and Schedules
Definition of maintenance strategies (maintenance only when necessary)
Proposed maintenance types: systematic preventive, condition-based, predictive
Optimization of maintenance frequencies (reduction of excessive maintenance)
Drafting of preventive maintenance procedures and operating instructions
Reliability, Maintainability, Availability (RMA)
FMEA analysis of equipment: prioritizing actions based on criticality
Reliability improvement: reduction in the recurrence of failures
Optimization of maintainability: reduction of maintenance time (SMED maintenance, diagnostic support, visual management of technical areas)
CAPEX assessment: scenarios for mitigating availability risks
Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) management (drafting of standard LOTO procedures)
CMMS
CMMS Audit and Selection Support
Implementation and configuration: technical items, equipment hierarchies, workflows, integration with system integrators
Data migration: transfer of maintenance history and schedules
Training
Management of technical items
Inventory optimization, definition of strategic stock levels
Definition of procurement strategy
Optimization of physical and IT flows for parts
Optimization of technical warehouse organization
Monitoring and Reporting
Design of maintenance dashboards: KPIs (OEE, MTBF, MTTR, costs, workload)
Team coaching: skill development in tools and methods
Continuous improvement process: gap analysis, action plans
Scheduling of planned downtime
Optimized planning (Gantt): standardization of activities, optimization of concurrent activities, management of bottlenecks
Technical preparation: detailed work instructions, parts procurement, tooling
Execution monitoring: management of internal teams and subcontractors
Feedback: leveraging lessons learned for future shutdowns
Predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0
Deployment of IoT sensors: real-time monitoring (vibrations, temperature, pressure)
Predictive maintenance algorithms: early detection of deviations
Digital twin: behavior simulation and failure prediction
Connected sensors: securing strategic inventory (level, temperature)
Process digitalization
Maintenance from the design phase:
Integration into the project team across all project phases, starting from the Preliminary Design / Detailed Design stages
Challenging technical solutions with a focus on maintainability (participation in drafting specifications, analysis of technical proposals, model reviews, site reviews)
Support for integrating facilities into the CMMS
Facilitation of workshops
Comprehensive support: from assessment to implementation, including team coaching
Field-based approach with on-site surveys conducted by consultants in factories and workshops to collect diagnostic data
Integrated multi-disciplinary expertise: process, automation, energy efficiency, building systems, Industry 4.0 digitalization
Proficiency in tools: CMMS (SAP PM, Maximo, Coswin...), IoT, predictive AI
Proven methodology: SMED, FMEA, RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance)
Measurable performance: quantified gains (availability, costs, inventory)
Digitalization tools for maintenance
Injectable production: complete update of the preventive maintenance database (35 GMP buildings)
Modification of maintenance plan: +30% production capacity
Overhaul of mechanical maintenance outsourcing contract: optimizing costs and quality
AMDEC equipment, just-in-time maintenance: -75% breakdowns (high-pressure washing cabin)
The Snef Group operates across four continents—the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Oceania—in 30 countries and 80 cities, with a network spanning more than 100 international locations.
