Setting the strategy 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), InforTM 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 ha

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