Innovators to enter 'Dragon's Den' at Maintec
24 Jan 2011
Birmingham, UK – New maintenance ideas will be pitched to industry expert ’Lions’ at a Dragons’ Den-inspired contest that will be staged at easyFairs Maintec show on the 29th - 31st March, at Birmingham’s NEC.
Graeme Coyne, business manager - IA&DT Service, support & training development at Siemens, Paul Dennis, technical facilities Manager at Experian, and Richard Wilkins, business process owner - maintenance from MARS will form the Lions’ Lair judging panel.
The judges will cast a critical eye over an array of pioneering products put forward by four exhibiting companies – one of which will earn the Lions Lair Accolade.
The first company stepping into the Lair will be Flowcrete UK Ltd with its latest product ’Floorgraphix’ – a bespoke piece of floor graphic artwork; digitally generated and printed onto rolls of specialist material then sealed into the floor.
“Floorgraphix allows us to combine endless creative design with durability associated with epoxy resin,” explains Alan Dean, UK sales manager Flowcrete.
The second company taking on the easyFairs panel is Idhammar Systems – a specialist in integrated maintenance and manufacturing systems - CMMS and OEE Systems – with its ’Andon Signalling and Business Alerts’ product.
As part of the reporting output from the OEE System, the company provides tailored Andon Signalling – to keep the shop-floor informed of progress on their shift and business alerts - sent by SMS directly to pre-defined managers, depending on the severity of breakdown/production issue.
MACS EU Ltd, the third company looking to take on the MAINTEC Lions, will be putting forward its product ’FAME’ (Facilty and Asset Management in one Environment).
MACS EU is a business partner of IBM and sells the asset management software Maximo. Therefore they decided to create and develop their own facility management solution within IBM Maximo.
FAME is said to be the first option in the world of facility management fully integrated in IBM Maximo.
Siveco, meanwhile, will demonstrate its M.tv product, which it describes as a “collaborative knowhow website for nomadic engineers & technicians.”
M.tv provides a platform for the global delivery and capture maintenance and engineering knowhow which can be shared either privately or publicly as desired.
It can be deployed within existing company IT infrastructures on dedicated or co- hosting servers and additionally in the cloud to reduce infrastructure overheads.
M.tv can be integrated with many CMMS and EAM systems to enable the seamless delivery and collection of maintenance operations such as work orders and equipment histories.
The Lions’ Lair contest will be taking place on 30 March 2011 at 1pm, with all four companies competing. Only one company will be awarded with the Lions Lair Accolade, with results being announced at 2pm after the session.
