eMaint News

New Customers Choose eMaint CMMS in the New Year

eMaint's CMMS user base has grown consistently throughout it's 25 years in business. eMaint is pleased to have surpassed 5000 users in 2011 and welcomes several more this New Year. 

Magna- AIM Systems: Magna Systems International Inc (MAGNA) is a decade experienced end-to-end IT solutions provider based in Michigan and offering Enterprise IT Applications development (Onsite and offsite) and IT Consulting services to Fortune 1000 Clients and Integrators nationwide.

B&W Quality Growers: B&W Quality Growers is the world's largest grower of watercress and one of America's oldest family farmers. Started in 1870, B&W attributes its success to a single premise of quality.

US Pack Group: Design, distribute, and manufacture packaging for personal care, food and beverage, automotive, cleaning products, and other specialized markets.

Closure Systems International: CSI is the leading supplier of closure and capping systems to the global beverage and food industries. 

City of Minneapolis (Traffic and Parking):The Minneapolis Municipal Parking System is comprised of 17 parking ramps and 8 surface lots. These Ramps and Lots encompass over 20,000 parking spaces. Conveniently located in the warehouse, entertainment, and business districts, these facilities are under the direction of the City of Minneapolis Public Works Department, Traffic and Parking Services Division.

Northstar Agri Industries: A fully integrated canola processing and refining facility.

Faith Management: Added an additional location to the eMaint team.  

All Maintenance: A new contract maintenance facility. 

eMaint has enjoyed working with all of their CMMS customers throughout the years and looks forward to a long lasting partnership with those that join this year. 

 

Farmdale Creamery Inc. Discovers the Perfect Recipe for Cultured Products: eMaint's X3 System

Over the past 50 years Farmdale Creamery Inc., serving the San Fernando Valley in California, has embraced state-of-the-art technology to provide their clients with the highest quality of dairy products and customer service.  Farmdale Creamery Inc. continued this trend when they decided to implement eMaint Enterprise's X3 System to their collection of cutting-edge technology.  For over half of a century, Farmdale Creamery has specialized in providing their clients with an array of dairy products which includes cheese, sour cream, sour dressing, and buttermilk.

Farmdale Creamery prides itself on maintaining a high level of customer service by developing and preserving close, interpersonal relationships with their customers.  They are able to differentiate themselves by catering to all of their clients' needs for even the toughest projects and most outrageous requests.

After requesting a 30-day Free-Trial Account and exploring the vast amount of functions and advantages in eMaint Enterprise's X3 system, Norman Shotts knew that eMaint's CMMS system was the right fit for Farmdale Creamy Inc.  In particular, Norman enjoys the security benefits of eMaint automatically backing up every work order and work request generated and offering the most reliable CMMS software.  From the entire team here at eMaint Enterprises we would like to welcome Norman Shotts and his team at Farmdale Creamery Inc.! 

Associated Grocers selects eMaint Enterprises

Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge has been providing retailers with the tools, products and services necessary to efficiently and effectively operate their stores for over 60 years.  Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge serves independent retail grocers in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana.

After conducting a search for a maintenance management system, they selected the eMaint X3 CMMS system to assist in reaching a high level of integrity in all aspects of their maintenance operations.     

They will be taking advantage of the eMaint University Rapid Start subscription package which includes 10 hours of configuration support as well as access to all of the recorded and live, instructor-led trainings available on eMaint University.  Associated Grocers will be utilizing the MX Mobile option which allows mobile devices to connect to the X3 application.   The eMaint team looks forward to working with the Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge in fulfilling all of their CMMS needs.

Speciality Foods Group expands usage of the X3 CMMS software to a new location

The staff at Speciality Foods Group, leading U.S. producer and marketer of a wide variety of premium branded and private-label processed meat products, located in Owensboro, Kentucky has decided to follow in the footsteps over their peers in Chicago and become part of the eMaint CMMS community.  During their search for a CMMS solution, eMaint was recommended by their Chicago division.  The maintenance professionals in Owenboro then participated in a 30-day free trial and signed on to become clients.

Speciality Foods Group has opted to have a member of our Professional Services team deliver on-site training in PM Set-up and management, inventory control, purchase order processing and user administration. The decision was based on the successful on-site engagements that the Chicago team experienced. We look forward to working with the new Speciality Foods Group location for many years to come.  

Agrana Chooses the “sweet” option: Selects eMaint Enterprises CMMS solution

Agrana, a global leader in the custom development of stabilized fruit preparations for the dairy industry, has selected the eMaint X3 software to assist in their CMMS activities.  Agrana will be implementing the X3 software at their Brecksville, Ohio food processing plant in order to track the maintenance activities on all of their assets.

Hido Malic, the Service Manager at Agrana, wanted to ensure that the CMMS software that he purchased for his company was one that could fulfill all of their requirements.  To do so, Hido not only attended one of our weekly product demonstrations but after liking what he saw, decided to “test drive” the software with our fully functional free trial account.  After experiencing the software first hand and the level of support that came with it, he decided to move forward and become part of eMaint’s growing CMMS community. We welcome Agrana to the eMaint’s  family of food processors and look forward to meeting their CMMS needs.

DeCrescente Distributing Company chooses eMaint Enterprises as their CMMS Provider

The DeCrescente Distributing Company, beverage distributor of beer and non-alcoholic sodas, juices, teas, and waters located in the New York area, has chosen the eMaint X3 CMMS system for keeping track of maintenance activities on their assets.  The primary reason for purchasing the CMMS software was to service their vending machines for corrective repairs as well as preventive maintenance.

 Maintenance workers will be accessing work orders on location via their mobile phones, where they will be able to apply the maintenance activities completed on the work order, add any costs that were accrued and then close the work order.  

In the future, DeCrescente Distributing Company plans to expand their usage of the system by tracking maintenance for all of their vehicles as well.  The eMaint team looks forward to working with the DeCrescente Distributing Company as their partner in achieving CMMS success.

 

Anderson Vineyards and eMaint X3 CMMS: the Perfect Pairing!

Anderson Vineyards, a producer of fine wines from the Northern California area, has selected eMaint X3 CMMS software to assist in managing all vineyard maintenance operations.  Bob Gibson, Director of Vineyard Operations, learned about the X3 system after it was successfully installed at their parent company - Roederer Estate.  After learning of  the success that Roederer Estate achieved in such a short time, Bob decided to move forward with  eMaint.  

Anderson Vineyards plans to have data imported into the X3 system by our professional services team from their prior  CMMS system to help jumpstart the implementation process.  

eMaint welcomes the Anderson Vineyards team and looks forward to a long-lasting and “fruitful” partnership.

Euphrates Inc. Expands Usage of eMaint X3 CMMS to New Branches

  Euphrates Inc., a growing producer of all natural dairy products based in New York and a current eMaint X3 customer, has decided to expand their usage of the eMaint X3 CMMS system by implementing it in their New Berlin location.  The Reliability Manager at Euphrates, Mark McGowen, decided on the expansion because of the amount of success that Euphrates Inc has experienced at their other locations.  eMaint looks forward to the expanded partnership with Euphrates Inc. and looks forward to the successes that the new location will experience.

Barcoding reduces Monthly Cycle Count time by 75% for Crown Cork and Seal Food Division

Background
Crown Holdings, Inc. is a multi-billion dollar supplier of packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world.  In 2002, Crown Cork & Seal first piloted eMaint’s X3 Online CMMS at two of its U.S. beverage division plant locations, expanding to all 10 division plants.  Crown’s U.S. food division followed suit and implemented X3 across its 13 U.S. plants in 2003 and then its Canadian plants in 2007.  Today, Crown relies on eMaint X3 for inventory control and PM management across 54 of its plant locations in 7 countries.  

Over the years Crown has taken advantage of expanded features within eMaint X3 and in 2008 implemented the MX mobile system along with barcode technology in storerooms across several U.S. food and beverage division plants.  

Challenge
In response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Crown Cork & Seal implemented eMaint X3 in 2002 for better inventory tracking.  A corporate policy requires Crown to count all inventory twice a year. To accomplish this, each plant performs monthly cycle counts on a portion of their inventory. Initially, the cycle counting process was time consuming and required reallocation of manpower to complete on time.  Seeking to improve cycle count efficiency, Crown chose to utilize barcoding technology in conjunction with eMaint’s MX Mobile system to reduce the time required to complete monthly cycle counts and to improve inventory accuracy.

Implementation
Although the initial goal for implementing eMaint X3 revolved around inventory tracking, Crown continuously strives to leverage the system to improve other aspects of their operation. In 2005, Crown started utilizing eMaint for scheduling preventive maintenance of assets (meter-based and calendar-based), followed by setting up automated reminders of upcoming Environmental Health and Safety inspections. In 2008, Crown implemented MX mobile and barcoding devices in in their storerooms for issuing parts and performing monthly cycle counts.  As hundreds of parts are counted at each location each month, the time-saving opportunity was significant.

Results
After implementing barcoding devices and MX Mobile for recording cycle counts, Crown Cork & Seal was able to reduce the time needed for completing the monthly counts by 75% (from a month to a week). Crown continues to drive down inventory costs and has even moved to unattended storerooms in selected locations.  

Crown has started to utilize the eMaint CMMS system for tracking breakdown and corrective work orders. This will enable them to track costs by type of maintenance at a plant, division, and corporate level.

Benefits
-Cycle counts time reduced by 75%
-Automatic notifications of Environmental Health and Safety Inspections
-Inventory reduction due to centralized part accessibility
-Elevated from preventive to predictive maintenance
- Adherence to standard operating procedures across all plant locations