Better News 2026/02: Better Industry at the Smart Industry Conferences and ČSPÚ

BI MAINTENANCE SMALL BUSINESS: MAINTENANCE UNDER CONTROL

Are you a small company looking for peace of mind from operational maintenance issues? Or are you a larger company with a conservative approach to maintenance management, unsure of how to move forward? You, too, deserve a high-quality CMMS solution for maintenance and asset management, allowing you to stop relying on physical folders, MS Excel, and Google Calendar.

Our BI MAINTENANCE solution is online, web-based, and accessible anywhere, anytime. Record-keeping, asset or fleet management, preventive maintenance, inspections, and checks could not be any easier. How to start? 2 users, 50 pieces of equipment for 1,500 CZK per month. No hidden fees!

And if you grow, no problem. Our solution grows with you. We will scale up as far as you need.

Join our satisfied customers, including companies like Tatra Trucks, DB Schenker, Savencia Fromage & Dairy, FIA ProTeam, and others.

Call us, email us, or visit our website!

+420 604 921 770
tomas@betterindustry.cz
www.betterindustry.cz/en/products/bi-maintenance/

MICHALA VOMASTKOVÁ: SENIOR ACCOUNTANT & MARKETING SPECIALIST

Míša is an indispensable part of our team and a person who brings not only professionalism to the office, but also positive energy and a good mood. As the only woman on the team, she naturally complements our collective with her calm demeanor, perspective, and sense of order, while effortlessly holding her own in a traditionally male-dominated environment.

She excels in her directness, reliability, and ability to keep things firmly under control. Thanks to her systematic approach and organizational skills, we know we can count on her at any time, whether handling accounting agendas or marketing activities. She always acts openly, factually, and with the goal of finding the best solution, making her a crucial pillar of support for the entire team.

In addition to her dedication at work, she manages her role at home with admirable ease, dedicating herself fully to her family and caring for her children. Her energy, determination, and positive attitude are an inspiration to us all, and we are delighted to have her on our team.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS:

NEW WATERFALL OVERVIEW IN BI CONTROL: A DETAILED LOOK AT OEE INFLUENCES

We have added a new Waterfall overview to BI Control, which clearly displays how the total shift time allocation progressively impacts the final OEE. Thanks to this view, you can easily identify individual influences and pinpoint exactly where losses occur.

The overview allows you to:

• Display the transition from total shift time through planned and organizational influences down to available production time.
• Identify the impact of unplanned downtime and unidentified losses, with the ability to drill down to the level of groups and specific root causes.
• Track the trend of individual downtimes over time and compare their evolution across months.
• In the case of a production line, compare the occurrence of downtime among individual machines integrated into the line.

The overview also includes a comparison between OEE (AV) and OEE C, which highlights the impact of actual machine performance. This clearly distinguishes whether losses are caused by equipment unavailability or by a deviation of the actual production cycle time from the planned one.

The Waterfall overview is available in the Overviews section and supports data export for further analysis.

Acknowledgement

We are very pleased and highly appreciate that our customers are willing to publicly share their experiences and success stories at conference events. The opportunity to gain insight into the real benefits of our solutions directly through their eyes is all the more valuable. Representatives from our customer base will join us on stage at the next two upcoming events, and you can look forward to their specific experiences and inspiring real-world stories:

SMART INDUSTRY 2026 HEADS TO BRNO

Bohumír Novák Production Manager, Federal Mogul Valvetrain Dačice Member of Tenneco Group As part of the AMPER trade fair, a one-day event will take place, connecting more than 350 production, service, and maintenance managers from both Czech and international companies. Tenneco has been our customer since 2019, when we took over following their initial attempt to digitalize production data with a local hardware vendor.

Low costs can sometimes mean low output, which was proven true in this case. Unfortunately for them—and fortunately for us—the original supplier was unable to respond to the growing needs of FMV, and it was time for us and our BI CONTROL solution to step in. Through gradual steps and mutual development, we integrated our additional system modules while also addressing specific digitalization projects.

You will hear more from us on March 17, 2026, during the Smart Industry Amper Edition conference. More information and registration can be found on our website or at www.smart-industry.cz.

ČSPÚ – MAINTENANCE FOR TOP MANAGERS

Ondřej Bílek Lean Manager, FIA ProTeam Pelhřimov Member of Storch-Ciret Group. FIA ProTeam has been our customer since 2016, back when the very first lines of code for our solution were being written. This company allowed us to test our application from the very first connection to production equipment, through data processing, all the way to the first reports and visualizations. FIA ProTeam operates 150 pieces of manufacturing technology across a very broad scope, maintains a dedicated maintenance team, develops its own single-purpose machinery, and actively embraces the continuous process improvement philosophy.

Our cooperation has been actively developing the entire time, and as their needs and activities grow, so does our solution. You can learn more, especially in the field of maintenance, during our joint presentation on March 25, 2026, at the Liblice Chateau. More information can be found on our website (betterindustry.cz) or at udrzba-cspu.cz/events/konferencni-seminar-udrzba-pro-top-manazery-2026.

REAL-WORLD BENEFITS: