11 March, 2025

Talking Industry: Using smart maintenance to slash operating costs

10 March, 2025

For November’s Talking Industry two specialists in smart maintenance gave their insight into how this approach can deliver measurable cost savings, enhance productivity, and drive smarter decision-making.Talking Industry Chair Andy Pye reports


Smart maintenance isn’t just about the tools, but also about the culture and mindset shifts that help organisations achieve measurable cost savings, improve productivity, and make smarter decisions. Smart maintenance is reshaping operational efficiency and reducing costs. With a focus on predictive maintenance and automated workflows, the session concentrated on how advanced technology transforms maintenance management from a traditional reactive expense to a proactive value generator

In our pre-meeting, our speakers - Donal Bourke, Director of Sales, PEMAC and Peter Keckes, Strategic Account Manager UK & Ireland, Red Lion, quickly identified that they were offering complementary approaches. Prior to the event, they met virtually to discuss how the session could emphasise how a company offering devices which collect data from machines, can liaise with one offering Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).

PEMAC is a best-in-class provider of CMMS software and services working across some of the most competitive and highly regulated industries. By revolutionising maintenance strategies, PEMAC interprets incoming data to provide businesses with insights to expedite decision-making and manage their assets.

Red Lion Controls is a provider of industrial automation and is especially strong in the North American market. Around a year ago, it was acquired by HMS Networks, a global provider of industrial information and communication technology, with the objective of significantly expanding the latter company’s presence in the North American market.

Through flexible, secure industrial data acquisition systems, can capture real-time data from sensors, systems and assets. This data can be analysed and acted upon to create automated workflows through CMMS software. For example, sensor data could provide advanced warning or analysis that a particular asset is due to fail, CMMS software can take this analysis and create automated workflows to plan maintenance and assign spare parts and resources to proactively maintain the equipment reducing unplanned downtime. This is just one example.

With over two decades of experience in the IT space (focusing on ERP, MES, and POS systems) and OT domain (covering power generation and distribution, manufacturing, and utilities), Peter Keckes is an “out-of-the-box” thinker who has developed a blend of skills in IIoT and Industry 4.0. His diverse project portfolio spans from small, off-grid power plants to extensive power distribution projects, from simple temperature process control to large corporations with multiple processing facilities, and the new generation of digital utilities.

Through these experiences, data has become the core of any project he undertakes. “Digital transformation is a radical change in how humans and organisations use technology to connect with the physical world and processes, fundamentally transforming performance, efficiency, and experience,” Peter Keckes explains. He argues that true digitalisation is achieved by harmonising human needs and capabilities with technology to generate a value-generating process where business success is measured by Return On Investment (ROI). Building on the complementary nature of the two companies, the session set out to explore these key features:




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