1-800-922-4336 | www.mapcon.com | sales@mapcon.com THE CHALLENGES When the plant first opened in 2005, they did not have a dedicated maintenance management system in place, so they used Excel spreadsheets, which caused a number of issues. First and foremost, they were not able to have more than one person in the spreadsheet at a time. When information had to be entered, workers sometimes had to wait until someone else was done with it. The other major problems with the spreadsheet were how repairs and inventory were tracked and managed. Using an Excel spreadsheet to manage their inventory made tracking more difficult for Red Star Yeast. Since items could not easily be found, sometimes workers would think they were out of the item and order more. This lead to money being spent on

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