Maintenance Hero Awards Ceremony

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Welcome everyone to the maintenance hero awards. I'm extremely excited to present to you Limble's maintenance hero award winners for twenty twenty five. For those unfamiliar, this award program celebrates the unsung heroes of maintenance who go above and beyond, innovating, leading, and making a measurable impact every day. Though the program is in its second year, this is the first time we are celebrating our winners live with you all at the summit through a virtual award ceremony.

Today, we honor the individuals and teams who went above and beyond across six different categories, proactive pioneer, downtime disruptor, productivity powerhouse, reporting revolutionary, global visionary, and tech innovator. As we received some incredible nominations this year and had an overwhelming number of submissions, our selection committee identified multiple winners per category. So now without further ado, let's meet our twenty twenty five winners and share their inspiring stories. Our first award category is proactive pioneer, which recognizes leaders in preventative maintenance who move their teams from firefighting to foresight.

And the winners are maintenance engineer, Chi Chiu Simeon, and senior maintenance lead, Steve Hoyt from Emerson, and processing manager Corey Stone of Caglia Environmental.

Together, Simi and Steve redefined maintenance for Emerson. Simi's leadership in Romania improved MTTR, boosted MTBF, and gave the site strong planning and forecasting power. Meanwhile, Steve built Emerson's PM standards from the ground up, revising them eight times to match evolving Limble capabilities.

His expertise spread globally, mentoring colleagues worldwide. Together, Simi and Steve embody proactive excellence.

Corey transformed Caglia's maintenance program in under two years by digitizing two hundred plus assets, creating custom dashboards, and tagging equipment with QR codes. His leadership cut exhausting ten hour six day shifts down to eight hour five day shifts for his team. Simi, Steve, and Corey, congratulations to showing us that proactivity is the true key to maintenance success.

Our next award is downtime disruptor. This award honors the maintenance pros who have reduced unplanned downtime and boosted performance, impacting the bottom line in a big way for their organizations. And the winners are Alan Windritz, maintenance technician at Talgo Inc, and Brian Wright, chief engineer at Franz Family Bakeries. Alan took it upon himself to digitize assets, implement PM schedules, and communicate challenges to leadership with remarkable professionalism.

Despite navigating red tape across international operations, Alan gave his team new visibility into complex maintenance challenges, ensuring passenger rail cards could be produced under enormous constraints. He embodies grace, competence, and patience.

Brian volunteered his site to be the first Limble CMMS implementation, and he turned it into the gold standard. His leadership drove a thirty three percent reduction in mechanical downtime over eighteen months, ninety four percent PM completion, and the company's best technician accountability.

His expertise even surpassed super users, making him the go to dash boards and data visualization leader across the company.

Alan and Brian, congratulations on disrupting downtime and proving that maintenance excellence is possible anywhere.

Next is the productivity powerhouse award. This award recognizes the maintenance professionals that have used Limble to better understand workloads and boost their team's output. And the winners are Edgar Pacheco, maintenance manager at Circular Services, and Andrea Stogdale, CMMS and asset manager at Washington and Lee University.

Edgar's leadership has transformed Circular Services. His preventative maintenance schedules, calm problem solving, and step by step rigor have improved facility safety, functionality, and efficiency.

Edgar has built a culture of reliability where productivity thrives, greatly improving the facility.

Andrea helped fully set up Limble across the university campus, enabling better data driven decision making and seamless QR code submissions for maintenance requests. Her efforts empowered a campus wide team to work smarter and more efficiently.

Edgar and Andrea, thank you for powering productivity, improving what strong leadership looks like.

Now for the reporting revolutionary award, which celebrates those who harness data and analytics to increase visibility, guide decisions, and elevate strategy at their organizations.

And the winners are Vikram Ahuja, finance manager at Central Amusement International, and Brad Brake, terminal manager at Soup Coke Canada.

At Luna Park in New York City, Vikram transformed reporting with daily attraction checklist, customized cost tracking, and visibility into repair and labor costs across rides. His reporting discipline turned fun into safe, reliable uptime for millions of guests. Brad digitized one of the most old school industries, thermal oil systems and asphalt operations. By customizing Limble, he created data driven efficiencies and gas costs, maintenance fees, and downtime reduction. His reporting practices are now being tested across eighteen additional terminals in North America.

Vikram and Bragg, you've proven how understanding data can help make important decisions to impact your business for the better.

Next up is the global visionary award, which celebrates leaders who have scaled technology across multiple facilities or regions, standardizing processes and delivering ROI at scale. And the winners are Zisha Greenberg, equipment maintenance supervisor at Fabbinwood, and Ken Davis, senior manager of global facilities at Ultra Clean Technologies.

Zisha rolled out Limble across multiple facilities with a thoughtful change management strategy. Starting with a pilot, refining processes, and scaling regionally, the results, thirty percent less reactive maintenance, twenty five percent higher PM compliance, twenty percent less downtime, and a thirty five percent faster work order completion rate. Zisha's leadership turned maintenance into a strategic advantage.

Can united teams across continents to align on a common vision from global standardization of asset libraries to QR coded machines, to dashboards showing real time custom data. Ken ensured that no one was left behind in the transition. His leadership demonstrates what a true global vision looks like. Zeeshan, can you've shown us how to think bigger, scale smarter, improve that maintenance is a global force.

Our final award is tech innovator. The tech innovator award celebrates leaders driving digital transformation at their organizations, integrating IoT, AI, and cutting edge tools with Limble. And the winners are Carrie Rourke, controls engineer at Yokohama Tire Manufacturing, and Steven Logan, director of engineering and technology at Zoda Foams.

Carrie connected Limble to Power BI for advanced reporting and is now developing AI tools to push maintenance into the future. He exemplifies curiosity, creativity, and bold thinking.

Steven digitized and centralized workflows integrating Limble with real time monitoring for automation and KPI reporting. His innovations enabled condition based maintenance, streamlined visibility, and laid the foundation for scalable global operations.

Carrie and Steven, thank you for showing us what's possible when maintenance meets innovation.

To all our winners and nominees, congratulations.

You've proven that maintenance is not just about fixing machines and cleaning up messes. It's about vision, innovation, leadership, and resilience. Thank you for being the heroes behind the uptime era. Here's to you, the maintenance heroes of twenty twenty five.

I'd just like to thank everybody that took the time to put the positive comments and, you know, get me up on that list to, receive this this award.

It's it's more than just a a Franklin terminal award because it's a Limble award too. It just without Limble, you know, I'm sure I've said this a couple times already, but without limbo, I truly believe I wouldn't be in the position I'm in right now.

Meaning the what is a motivation is a motivation for the team that, or we've done the hard work, even our, our customers, our clients, the vendor is appreciating us.

Some of the biggest people that I wanna thank is, first, Justin, Justin's the director of post collections here at Kagali environmental, and he was a big cheerleader for me.

We need to step into the new digital age, right? We need to take our systems and make them better and improve them. So he's always been a champion and a cheerleader for the platform and for the software. And I also want to thank my lead mechanic, Luis, Herman.

He has been not only a big cheerleader of the software, but my biggest user and implementer of the software. He's been helping me develop the DMS. He's been behind me pushing mechanics of here's how you use it, giving training.

So, yeah, Luis and Justin, a big thank you, for all that you do.

I'd like to thank you guys for having the having the program. It's a very nice gesture.

I'd like to thank Brendan for nominating me. So without, without all those people, I I wouldn't, I wouldn't have the award that I have now.

I appreciate it a lot, and I and I, and I appreciate the recognition from Limble as well, you know, on this nomination. I'm very happy because I do put a lot of work into it.

It's nice to be recognized for your accomplishments, but it's also a reality that no single person can do to make this successful. It takes a team, you know. So I haven't been the only one working on this. I have a team of guys that have kind of rallied behind the program, and they're giving the feedback.

So without that feedback, I can only do so much. You know? At the same time, thanks to the tech team, to Alex Maldonado for the assistance with us here at our site on rolling this program out and being willing to work with us and be patient with us if we come across struggles as we're trying to be patient with you guys when they arise, you know. So it's been really a pleasure just working overall with everybody involved.

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