{"id":29375,"date":"2025-04-04T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/limblecmms.com\/?post_type=customer-story&p=29375"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:26:02","slug":"liberty-safe","status":"publish","type":"customer-story","link":"https:\/\/limblecmms.com\/customer-story\/liberty-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Safe boosts production by 30% with smarter maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Liberty Safe is the largest manufacturer of home and gun safes in the United States. Having been in business for over thirty years, they credit their continued success to the quality and durability of their products, which are built to last through fires, floods, and other extremes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their maintenance team is responsible for maintaining the production equipment and the seven acre facility where each step of fabrication and assembly happens.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adam Ferran, Maintenance Manager for Liberty Safe had previously managed maintenance tasks by routing paperwork and assigning tasks to team members on a pegboard. While it got the job done, it was a time-intensive process that was built around reactive maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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\u201cManually coordinating tasks would consume two to three hours of my day or more if there was an equipment failure.\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\n
\n Adam FerranMaintenance Manager<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Which there frequently was. Equipment downtime occurred regularly which disrupted production operations and diverted the maintenance team away from their goal of transitioning to a more proactive strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferran saw spare parts as the root source of many of their challenges. The lack of an accurate inventory system made it difficult to get downed machines back up and running quickly. They would sometimes spend hours in their spares room looking for a part<\/strong> and they would frequently place overnight parts orders to get a critical machine back up and running. As a result, the team spent thousands on expedited shipping every week, repairs took longer than necessary, and efforts to implement preventive maintenance failed to gain traction.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ferran\u2019s experience taught him to tackle the issue at the root source \u2013 in this case, spare parts. They began looking for software that could help them create an accurate parts inventory, forecast parts needs, and streamline reordering so that critical parts were always available and easy to find. This would help them support a preventive maintenance program that could boost the organization\u2019s output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, their list of needs was focused on these fundamentals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \n \"Icon\"\n Spare parts inventory management and forecasting<\/span>\n <\/li>\n
  • \n \"Icon\"\n Preventive maintenance scheduling and planning<\/span>\n <\/li>\n
  • \n \"Icon\"\n Data insights on downtime and maintenance costs<\/span>\n <\/li>\n
  • \n \"Icon\"\n Increased visibility for management and production teams<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n