Agriculture feeds the world. The transportation of goods and services is a fundamental part of our economy. The owner-managed family business KRONE has been supporting these two industries for over 100 years with innovative agricultural technology and reliable commercial vehicles. High product quality is a central pillar for stable growth. To ensure this product quality, the KRONE Group relies on smart and proactive plant maintenance in the production environment with the SAP-based maintenance solution OPRA from DATAGROUP.
Technology for nature: Maintenance with OPRA and Smart Tables
The KRONE Group has been using the OPRA maintenance solution for several years. This solution has made it possible to digitize important maintenance processes. Previously, the deployment of maintenance staff was planned in the traditional way on paper. This planning was error-prone and time-consuming. The manual process was digitized by OPRA and supported by the smart tables. The planners can use a notification and order cockpit on the PC to coordinate the maintenance employees, assign orders and define responsibilities. Maintenance staff receive their tasks on their mobile device and can also report the results of their work directly in digital form.
With the help of smart tables, maintenance planners can customize the notification and order lists according to their requirements. Instead of a two-dimensional list that simply contains one task after another, they can create their own individual results lists and group and sort the items according to their needs. This means that separate results lists can be created and archived by electricians or hydraulic technicians according to their requirements.
The following applies to everyone: the digital process eliminates the effort of paper-based planning. All information is available directly on time in the system. Thanks to a detailed evaluation, it is now possible to identify and rectify problems with individual machines at an early stage.
"Thanks to the OPRA maintenance solution, we have all the latest information available digitally at all times. This has enabled us to make our maintenance processes more efficient. We support our maintenance staff directly at their place of work and can proactively maintain our machines to ensure the consistently high quality of our products."
About the KRONE Group
The family-run KRONE Group is one of the largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles and agricultural machinery. In the core areas of today's megatrends, the company acts as a pacemaker in many sectors such as transportation, mobility and agriculture. Customer-oriented, state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions continuously drive the success of its globally distributed customers. In agriculture in particular, the KRONE Group is regarded as an innovation leader in the field of forage harvesting technology and produces pioneering agricultural machinery for the whole world - more than 25,000 machines a year, from mowers to forage harvesters. The KRONE Group generated a turnover of around 2.5 billion euros in the 2021/2022 financial year and currently employs more than 5,700 people. More information at www.krone-group.de
