Committed to operational excellence and innovation
NewCold is a global leader in advanced automated food logistics, with 25 high-tech facilities operating across three continents. Headquartered in Breda in the Netherlands, NewCold supports some of the world’s largest food companies by delivering safe, energy-efficient, and fully integrated cold chain solutions.
With ambitions to triple the size of its business by 2030, NewCold is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence.
Maintenance & data management challenges
Before implementing Ultimo's EAM, NewCold encountered multiple challenges, including:
Age-related issues affecting operational continuity
Need for centralized and accessible asset data
Growing pressure to support maintenance teams with scalable tools
Limited visibility into historical asset use and spare parts inventory
Choosing Ultimo to meet strategic asset management goals
NewCold explored four systems and ultimately selected Ultimo for its robust asset management features and alignment with the company’s operational goals.
The main goals of the Ultimo EAM’s implementation were to:
Improve plant uptime and asset availability
Enable self-sufficient maintenance teams
Enhance decision-making through centralized data
Ensure the right parts are available at the right time and place
Scale asset management globally
Tangible results: Unlocking operational efficiency and maintenance autonomy
Since implementing Ultimo, NewCold has gained in asset visibility, cost savings and scalability, enabling smarter operational efficiency and more autonomous maintenance operations.
Key benefits realized include:
Operational efficiency & self-sufficiency: Ultimo has streamlined NewCold’s engineering operations by enabling seamless access to data sheets, usage logs, and part locations, ensuring technicians can work independently and effectively.
Cost savings through asset visibility: By gaining real-time insight into spare parts inventory, NewCold avoided unnecessary purchases, resulting in a £95,000 cost saving of not ordering spare parts.
Maintenance automation: The Ultimo system supports standard operating procedures, tracking and reporting, enabling the maintenance department to run more autonomously.
Scalability for global expansion: From a small-scale implementation, Ultimo has grown into a core platform for global operations, supporting NewCold’s long-term expansion strategy.
The future for NewCold global operations
NewCold plans to further deepen its use of Ultimo across its sites, evolving towards even greater autonomy and predictive maintenance capabilities. The company sees Ultimo as a foundational tool in building a self-managing, scalable global operation.
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