The "Siloed" Cost: If your factories can't see each other's inventory, you are buying duplicate spare parts while identical ones sit gathering dust at a sister plant.
The "Asset Passport": When you move a machine to a new site, its maintenance history (PMs, repairs, root causes) must travel with it.
The Fabrico Solution: How to use Multi-Site functionality to treat your entire organization as one giant warehouse.
Here is a scenario that happens every day in large manufacturing groups:
Plant A in Germany has a critical breakdown. They need a specific €5,000 Siemens drive.
The lead time from the supplier is 6 weeks.
Plant B in France has that exact drive sitting on a shelf. It has been there for two years.
The Problem: Plant A doesn't know Plant B has it.
The Result: Plant A waits 6 weeks. Plant B keeps holding "dead stock." The company loses money twice.
This is the Multi-Site Silo problem.
To run a truly efficient enterprise, you need to move from "Isolated Plants" to a "Virtual Warehouse."
You need the ability to move "kits" (spares and assets) between sites fluidly.
Here is how to implement this strategy using Fabrico.
Most CMMS platforms lock inventory to a specific "Location." To see what is in another plant, you have to log out and log back in.
The Fabrico Solution:
Fabrico offers a Global Search.
The Search: Mike (Maintenance Mgr at Plant A) types the part number into Fabrico.
The Result: He sees: Quantity 0 (Local), but Quantity 2 (Plant B).
The Action: He triggers an Internal Transfer Request instead of a Purchase Order.
The Financial Impact:
You stop buying "Insurance Spares" for every single site.
You can centralize expensive, slow-moving parts in a hub and ship them overnight when needed. This can reduce total inventory holding costs by 20-30%.
Moving production capacity is common. You might move a packaging line from your UK plant to your Polish plant to handle volume shifts.
The Nightmare:
In legacy software, "Moving" an asset usually means deleting it from Site A and creating it as a "New Asset" in Site B.
The Loss: You lose 10 years of repair history, failure codes, and PM records. The new maintenance team at Site B is flying blind. They don't know that this machine eats bearings every 6 months.
The Fabrico Solution:
We treat the asset like a traveler with a passport.
The Transfer: When you move "Asset #104" in Fabrico, the system moves the Entire Data History with it.
The Continuity: The Site B team scans the QR code on Day 1 and sees every repair performed by Site A over the last decade.
The Benefit: Reliability continues uninterrupted. The "Bad Actor" flags and RCA data remain attached to the machine, not the building.
You cannot share parts if you don't call them the same thing.
If Plant A calls it a "Roller Bearing" and Plant B calls it "Brng-Rllr-20mm," the search will fail.
The Fabrico Master Data Layer:
Fabrico allows Corporate Reliability Leaders ("Paula") to enforce a Master Taxonomy.
Unified Coding: Part numbers and descriptions are standardized across the group.
Global PMs: You can define a "Standard Pump Service" task list at the corporate level and push it to all sites. This ensures that when a pump moves from A to B, the maintenance standard moves with it.
Once you have visibility, you can start comparing performance.
Question: Why does the Palletizer at Site A run 10% faster than the identical Palletizer at Site B?
Answer: Fabrico’s Multi-Site OEE Dashboard.
You can compare the maintenance history of the two assets side-by-side. You might find that Site A is performing a specific preventive task that Site B is skipping. You can then copy that "Best Practice" to Site B instantly.
Your factories should not compete for resources; they should share them.
If your current software creates walls between your plants, it is costing you money in downtime and inventory bloat.
Don't let history die when a machine moves.
Don't buy parts you already own.
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