Grimmway Farms Grows More Efficient Processes With Infor EAM

As Grimmway Farms evolved from a small company growing full-size carrots to being a top producer of baby carrots and more than 60 different commodities of produce, the company decided that it needed a robust, flexible asset management system to effectively maintain its seven facilities: carrot processing plants, a juice plant, a frozen food facility, citrus packing shed, and multiple vegetable packing sheds. Several years ago the company implemented a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), Infor™ MP2 Express.

Katie Diesl, enterprise asset management (EAM) development manager at Grimmway, explains: “Our maintenance department adopted its own solution, but a few years ago we started shopping for an integrated CMMS to be used companywide. A few departments had been using their own different versions of Infor M2 Express, all with different databases, and they independently maintained them. As time passed, we started to have issues with these differences, such as unstable data, insufficient reporting options, and lack of flexibility in the data structure to trace historical data. Although Infor MP2 Express met our needs for many years, we reached a point where we needed more.”