Customer Snapshot

CEFAS eliminated unplanned equipment

downtime with Infor EAM
Challenges

Eliminate unplanned equipment downtime with a

preventative maintenance program.

Optimize maintenance management processes, and stop

using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and numerous
disconnected automated solutions at the companys
different plants.

Facts at a glance

Gain company-wide visibility of maintenance management

processes.

Solution: Infor EAM

Industry: Manufacturing
Country: Argentina
Channel partner: VKsur

Unify the maintenance management of plants that are

managed independently.

Gain better control of the purchasing costs and inventory

levels of spare parts.

Infor EAM is the most configurable,

enterprise-grade asset management solution
on the market. It provides companies like
CEFAS with the power to improve capital asset
management in ways that increase reliability,
enhance predictive maintenance, and reduce
stock. Infor EAM is helping the company turn
its asset management into a competitive
advantage.
Fernando Del Rio, Director, VKsur

About the company

CEFAS is an Argentinean-based, lime
manufacturing company that meets more than
60% of demand for lime-based construction
products in Argentina. With its strategically
located plants, CEFAS also supplies lime
products to the steel, mining, paper, water
purification, effluent treatment, sugar, tanning,
paint, and other industries in Argentina, Chile,
and Uruguay. Founded in 1995, CEFAS
currently employs 450 people and
manufactures the well-known lime mortar, El
Milagro. To learn more, visit www.cefas.com.ar.

Benefits

Improved overall plant and equipment performance by

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

Improved maintenance management productivity after

successfully implementing Infor EAM to manage
multiple plants.

Unified maintenance management processes for the

companys various plants.

Created company-wide visibility into maintenance

management processes.

Improved control over spare parts purchasing costs.

Streamlined inventory levels by giving maintenance

department members complete visibility into spare parts
inventory and allowing direct interaction with the
purchasing department.

We are very happy with the implementation: we had no way to

track maintenance processes; now we have total visibility. We
see everything we need to know about failed equipment and
inventory for spare parts. This helps us be more efficient and
better synchronize our stock levels.
Ariel Diskenstein, IT Executive, CEFAS

641 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011

800-260-2640

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