How Canary transformed operations at ABB Woods

After a six-week evaluation, ABB Woods selected Canary for its ease of deployment, intuitive mobile experience, and built-in predictive maintenance capabilities. The rollout began at their flagship plywood mill in Georgia and expanded to all seven facilities within five months.

With thousands of assets to maintain and critical knowledge siloed across technicians, maintenance had become increasingly difficult to scale.

After a six-week evaluation, ABB Woods selected Canary for its ease of deployment, intuitive mobile experience, and built-in predictive maintenance capabilities. The rollout began at their flagship plywood mill in Georgia and expanded to all seven facilities within five months.

Canary's automated work order routing immediately reduced average response times by 35%, while its AI-driven analytics began flagging early signs of bearing wear on veneer lathes and detecting thermal anomalies in hot press systems - giving crews advance notice to schedule repairs during planned changeovers rather than reacting to breakdowns mid-shift.

The impact has extended well beyond the maintenance shop floor. With Canary's spare parts tracking, ABB Woods consolidated inventory across sites and reduced carrying costs by 22%. Digital inspection checklists replaced paper forms for kiln and press maintenance, cutting audit prep time from days to hours. Management now reviews live KPI dashboards covering asset uptime, work order backlog, and preventive maintenance compliance - data that was previously assembled manually at quarter-end.