The results

Revitalizing its efforts with ManagerPlus provided Metro Group with greater visibility and improved the accuracy of its asset management processes, leading to a number of  efficiencies that ultimately empowered its workforce to make strategic business decisions.

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345

assets actively managed
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47%

increase in the number of preventive maintenance work orders
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70%

increase in the number of work orders tracked
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47%

increase in the number of preventive maintenance work orders
maintenance

67.4%

decrease in unscheduled (reactive) maintenance

 

About Metro Group

Metro Group, Inc. is a metal recycling and transloading company with six locations throughout Utah and Nevada. Its subsidiaries include Metro Recyclers, Valley Recycling, Redwood Recycling, Millcreek Metals, and Wasatch Metal Recycling. With an emphasis on full end-to-end distribution and material reusability, Metro Group offers a broad range of public and commercial services—transportation, storage, material audits, scrap recycling, and more.

Metro Group, Inc. is Utah’s premier Metal Recycling and Transloading company. The company has existed since the early 1900’s. Originally founded in Logan, Utah, by eastern European immigrants, Metro Group has grown into a multi-million-dollar business with six locations throughout Utah and Nevada.

Industry

Renewables & Sustainability

Company Size

150+ employees

Headquarters

Salt Lake City, Utah

The challenge

When Director of IT Brian Martinez began working at Metro Group, he knew only that the organization had a CMMS, but was unaware of what type of system it was and the benefit it could have. After becoming familiar with Metro Group’s implementation of ManagerPlus, Martinez realized the full scope of business impact that ManagerPlus’s maintenance management software could generate for the organization. He continued by seeking out additional training and more comprehensive integration. This provided him with the unique opportunity to examine how Metro Group was using the system and to identify new ways of creating immediate value.

The problem? Although ManagerPlus was being used to maintain Metro Group’s metal recycling assets—including forklifts, cranes, balers, shearing machines, skid loaders, and trailers — the system had already been in place for many years and employees had lost the institutional knowledge of all that ManagerPlus could offer. They were tracking work order statuses on their large asset portfolio, but they were missing out on the key insights that would help refine their processes to make workflows that were more efficient.

The solution

By partnering with ManagerPlus, the team at Metro Group was able to assemble the right package that would suit everyone from vehicle operators to on-the-ground maintenance technicians. Teams also received training that helped them implement the system more effectively. These strategies brought significant visibility into Metro Group’s business intelligence and resulted in greatly improved performance across the board. The accuracy of tracked work orders sky-rocketed, and the number of costly reactive maintenance tasks dropped. Meanwhile, preventive maintenance increased, and the preventive maintenance completion rate rose to nearly 93%.

Revitalizing its efforts with ManagerPlus provided Metro Group with greater visibility and improved the accuracy of its asset management processes, leading to a number of efficiencies that ultimately 
empowered its workforce to make strategic business decisions.

Metro Group is realizing results

Preventive maintenance increased, and the preventive maintenance completion rate rose to nearly 93%

Next steps

If you’re looking for a proven solution to your maintenance management challenges, we’re here to help—every step of the way.

Our powerful cloud-based ManagerPlus Lightning software will:

  • Organize your asset inventory
  • Schedule ongoing service repairs
  • Automate maintenance logs and assignments
  • Provide preventive insights into your performance
  • Keep your enterprise up-to-date on compliance measures

Results like those seen by Metro Group can be achieved by any organization across any industry — from transportation and facilities management to manufacturing and construction. So, whether your company is small, mid-sized, or enterprise-level, ManagerPlus Lightning can deliver the full power of an intelligent, highly customizable maintenance program that works as hard as you do. Schedule a personalized demo today.

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