An Industry Perspective: How Food and Bev Leaders Can Modernize Maintenance Operations

In this live fireside discussion, UpKeep CEO Ryan Chan and Solutions Engineer Jon James sit down to talk through the strategies and approaches defining the shift. James spent years leading Maintenance and Production Operations at Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch before moving to the platform side, bringing a practitioner's lens to a conversation most industry discussions keep at the surface level. Together, they cover what the most effective food and beverage operations programs are doing differently, what's driving the change, and what leaders should be prioritizing to make the shift.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• The key changes reshaping maintenance operations in food and beverage manufacturing today and what's accelerating them
  
• What the highest-performing operations programs across multi-plant manufacturers have in common
  
• How leading teams are achieving operational excellence that holds consistently across every plant, not just the flagship site
  
• What it looks like when compliance readiness is part of daily operations rather than assembled before an inspection
  
• Where technology is genuinely changing how maintenance teams work on the floor, and where the real adoption barriers are
  
• What operations and maintenance leaders should be focusing on right now to stay ahead of the shift