Aptean EAM
CoreFX Implements Aptean EAM for Transparency, Safety and Efficiency Industry
Food & Beverage
Challenges
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Paper-based recordkeeping methods growing cumbersome Lack of high-level visibility for preventive maintenance orders
Benefits
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Fully digital platform maximizes visibility of work orders User-friendly interface facilitates smooth transition to new system
Ingredients producer CoreFX has come a long way in the short period since its founding in 2017. Their numerous lines of spray-dried fat- and oil-based ingredient solutions, including HealthiCoreFX, NutriCoreFX, SportsCoreFX and more, have been embraced by the larger food and beverage industry for their many flexible applications, excellent taste and alignment with the central mission of “Health through Nutrition.” That being said, as they’ve expanded operations at their two Illinois facilities, they’ve gone through some growing pains. They made a major move toward preparing the business for the future with the implementation of Aptean Process Manufacturing ERP Ross Edition early in 2021, but up until recently they were still using paper records for their asset management needs. “I was printing all the preventive maintenance orders [PMs] that we did, putting them in a binder and assigning them to the techs that I wanted to do the work,” Clayton Goeke, maintenance manager at CoreFX, said. “Then, I’d have to receive them back, file them and get them to the quality department.” “Clayton would leave every night and come to work every day with a briefcase and a folio folder. He had every single paper that he had touched for the last six months in there, and he would take that thing home every night just in case he got a call,” Frank Furgal, director of operations, added with a laugh.