Challenges• Eliminate unplanned equipment downtime with a

preventative maintenance program.

• Optimize maintenance management processes, and stopusing Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets and numerousdisconnected automated solutions at the company’sdifferent plants.

• Gain company-wide visibility of maintenance managementprocesses.

• Unify the maintenance management of plants that aremanaged independently.

• Gain better control of the purchasing costs and inventorylevels of spare parts.

Benefits• Improved overall plant and equipment performance by

successfully implementing a preventative maintenanceprogram that eliminated downtime and optimized task scheduling.

• Improved maintenance management productivity aftersuccessfully implementing Infor® EAM to manage multiple plants.

• Unified maintenance management processes for thecompany’s various plants.

• Created company-wide visibility into maintenancemanagement processes.

• Improved control over spare parts purchasing costs.

• Streamlined inventory levels by giving maintenancedepartment members complete visibility into spare partsinventory and allowing direct interaction with the purchasing department.

“We are very happy with the implementation: we had no way totrack maintenance processes; now we have total visibility. Wesee everything we need to know about failed equipment andinventory for spare parts. This helps us be more efficient andbetter synchronize our stock levels.”

—Ariel Diskenstein, IT Executive, CEFAS

Facts at a glanceSolution: Infor EAMIndustry: ManufacturingCountry: ArgentinaChannel partner: VKsur

“Infor EAM is the most configurable,enterprise-grade asset management solutionon the market. It provides companies likeCEFAS with the power to improve capital assetmanagement in ways that increase reliability,enhance predictive maintenance, and reducestock. Infor EAM is helping the company turnits asset management into a competitiveadvantage.”

—Fernando Del Rio, Director, VKsur

About the companyCEFAS is an Argentinean-based, limemanufacturing company that meets more than60% of demand for lime-based constructionproducts in Argentina. With its strategicallylocated plants, CEFAS also supplies limeproducts to the steel, mining, paper, waterpurification, effluent treatment, sugar, tanning,paint, and other industries in Argentina, Chile,and Uruguay. Founded in 1995, CEFAScurrently employs 450 people andmanufactures the well-known lime mortar, ElMilagro. To learn more, visit www.cefas.com.ar.

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CEFAS eliminated unplanned equipmentdowntime with Infor EAM

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