Standardizing Maintenance at Scale: UFP Industries & Reddy Ice

UFP Industries runs 150+ plants across three business segments. Reddy Ice just doubled in size overnight with its acquisition of Arctic Glacier. Different industries, different scale, same challenge: figuring out what stays consistent everywhere, and what can flex from plant to plant.

In this session, Cody Kremers, Head of Operational IT at UFP Industries, and Vinny Nuzzolese Jr, Regional Operations Manager at Reddy Ice, go behind the scenes on how they each built and enforced a maintenance "gold standard" across their organizations. One did it top-down through a formal governance process. The other started as a single manager tracking a night shift on his own laptop. Both ended up in the same place.

You'll hear what actually worked and what they'd do differently if they started over.

You will learn how to

• Define a maintenance "gold standard" that holds up across sites, segments, and even acquisitions
• Drive adoption across both digital-native and old-school frontline teams
• Avoid the standardization mistakes both speakers wish they'd caught earlier
• Turn standardized maintenance data into cross-site visibility leadership actually uses