Case Study: Leading Agricultural Cooperative maximizes equipment uptime and secures $250K/year profit with Accruent Maintenance Connection

How Accruent’s Maintenance Connection helped this leading agricultural cooperative save time and money by utilizing crucial functionalities in the CMMS’ work order management system

A leading Midwestern, farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative—with hundreds of grower-shareholders and operations across hundreds of locations—produces nearly one billion pounds of sugarbeets annually. The cooperative was losing $250K in productivity from frequent, unexplained downtime of a critical beet washer because maintenance had no standardized work-order process or data to diagnose the problem, relying instead on schedulers’ “best judgment.”

The cooperative deployed Accruent’s Maintenance Connection CMMS for work-order tracking, reporting and a centralized dashboard, which revealed bearings on the washer were well past their 10-year useful life. A $500K project replaced 16 bearings, delivering a two-year payback, an expected $250K annual profit for the next eight years, and enabled data-driven justification for further equipment investments and high-ROI projects.