Harvest Energy, one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of road fuels, has implemented
Mainsaver CMMS from Spidex Software to help support a best-practice maintenance program at its
production plant on Teesside.

Harvest Energy’s biodiesel facility at Seal Sands has an output capacity of 250,000 metric tonnes per
annum. It is said to be the largest such plant in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.

Plant Manager Lee Wood led the CMMS evaluation, with the objective of finding a software solution that
would make the process of scheduling critical preventative maintenance tasks quicker and more
efficient. During this period, it emerged that a number of the site engineers had previously used
Mainsaver at other industrial sites and spoke highly of its usability. This proved a significant factor in its
eventual selection.

The Mainsaver project began with an install of the Mainsaver v.11.6 core modules Maintenance,
Materials and Purchasing. This was followed by collection, formatting and upload of plant & asset data
into the CMMS, to which was attached the new preventative maintenance schedule. The final stage was
comprehensive system user training for the engineers.

Lee Wood is enthusiastic about the results he has seen to date. “Mainsaver has given us a fantastic tool
with which to plan and prioritise plant maintenance activities to great effect” he says.

“On a site of this size, process plant uptime and efficiency are critical. We have already seen a reduction
in equipment breakdown due to the implementation of preventative maintenance scheduling, one of the
key features of Mainsaver.”

Spidex Managing Director Jonathan Starling commented: “It is a great pleasure to welcome Harvest
Energy to the Mainsaver CMMS user community in the UK. When a successful company like Harvest
deploys Mainsaver in such an important production facility, it is true testimony to the robustness and
reliability of our CMMS offering.”

Harvest Energy already supplies more than 10% of the UK’s requirements and is working towards
market leader position in the supply of motor fuels to independent retailers. There are now more than
100 Harvest Energy forecourts in Britain and the company also supplies a wide commercial customer
base that includes supermarkets, logistics firms, bus operators and local authorities.