Case Study: Sterling Steel Company achieves $70,000/year maintenance savings and paperless inspections with Aptean EAM TabWare Edition

Sterling Steel Company, LLC Streamlines Operations with Aptean EAM TabWare Edition

Sterling Steel Company, LLC is a long-established metals manufacturer in northern Illinois that produces hundreds of thousands of tons of steel rod and wire each year. To support a proactive inspection program the plant was running two separate asset-management systems with a limited interface, separate servers, and manual report merging via Microsoft Access—creating high annual support costs, extra manpower needs, and an unsupported server that posed security risks.

Sterling Steel upgraded to the current Aptean EAM TabWare Edition, adopting its inspection module, analytics dashboard and mobile tablet workflow to consolidate functions into a single system. The change eliminated the redundant system within eight months, reduced annual maintenance costs by about $70,000, cut paper use by nearly 400 boxes (≈$20,000/year), lowered IT support overhead, and improved preventive maintenance, technician productivity and real-time decision-making.

Sterling Steel Company