How Penn Waste Rebuilt Their Operations From the Ground-Up Using Asset Essentials

My name is Joe Wojciechowski. I'm the maintenance manager for Penn Waste out of York, Pennsylvania. We're a single stream recovery facility or MRF material recovery facility helping the local community. We started the facility in twenty fifteen, and in March twenty twenty two, we had a fire. And that fire was pretty devastating. The fire took out more than half the machine in the machine centers. We had eight years of known data. You knew what to expect and when to expect it. Now having had the rebuild on the machine, it totally changes everything. You're going back to school. You're learning everything basic again because some of the machine centers are still there, and then the other fifty, sixty percent are brand new. So you're learning as you go. But having that asset essentials and being able to take the pictures, put that data in, and then share that data with the other techs is pretty valuable. We track everything. We have balers, compactors, optics, robotics, that we track in the facilities. If you have a mountain of data and you're not doing anything with it, what good is it to you? So you have to look at that. That helps with your PMs. It helps you when you go into that meeting. Hey. We were seeing machine a, b, or c. It's starting to break down, but here's why. That really helps you as a technician to say, here's why we need to replace this because you have that data. Through Brightly, we're able to get much more efficient than we were. The more efficient asset is, well, one, the safer it's gonna run, the better it's gonna run. You're not putting your people in harm's way. But also, you're getting more value out of that because now you've given the life cycle of that machine eight or ten years, you really start to factor that the least amount of downtime is always better. Brightly, it's easy to use. Like cell phones, everybody can use their cell phone. It's really simple. Asset Essentials. For us, it's been a really good safety net to say at the end of the week, hey. We didn't get to a, b, or c, p, m. Okay. Got it. Now the next crew coming in can go ahead and get that done for us. So it's helping us from that standpoint of if you have forty or fifty PMs, you're in a perfect world, nothing breaks down, you're able to get to it. But you don't in reality. It's a constant balance, and so it really helps you keep that balance.