Agristo is one of Europe’s leading frozen potato product manufacturers, supplying frozen fries and potato-based products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide.
Operating multiple production facilities with 24/7 manufacturing environments, Agristo places strong emphasis on equipment reliability, operational uptime, and maintenance efficiency.
Challenges
As the company expanded its manufacturing footprint, Agristo encountered increasing challenges in standardizing maintenance processes across different factories.
Operational data and maintenance activities were fragmented across sites, making it difficult to:
- Monitor equipment performance
- Analyze recurring failures
- Manage spare parts effectively
- Standardize maintenance workflows
Because production lines operated continuously at high capacity, even minor equipment failures could significantly impact production output and delivery performance.
Agristo needed a centralized EAM platform capable of improving maintenance visibility and supporting preventive maintenance strategies across the organization.
Solution
Agristo implemented IFS Ultimo EAM to digitalize and standardize maintenance operations across all manufacturing facilities.
The solution enabled the company to:
- Centrally manage maintenance requests
- Track equipment performance in real time
- Standardize maintenance workflows across sites
- Manage work orders and service history digitally
- Improve spare parts management and technical documentation control
Through the implementation, all maintenance activities were consolidated into a unified platform, providing greater operational transparency and improved coordination between maintenance teams.
The project also supported Agristo’s transition from reactive maintenance toward preventive and data-driven maintenance management.
As a result, the company improved equipment uptime, increased maintenance efficiency, and strengthened operational consistency across its manufacturing network.
