Mobile Mania: New Use for hand-held technology

摘要

Southern States Cooperative integrates mobile devices with its maintenance program to bring the feed division's logging system into the 21st century. Start with a decades-long adoption of operations automation, add unmatched dedication to quality control, and sprinkle with a one-of-a-kind mobile maintenance tracking system, and you have a recipe for success. This is the formula at work behind one of the nation's largest co-ops, Richmond, VA-based Southern States Cooperative. Southern States' Park City, KY, feed mill was built in 1977 with cutting-edge (for the time) automation in its receiving, batching and milling. The facility updated these processes over the years to keep up with increased demand and recently added rugged PDAs to the company's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to streamline its recordkeeping capabilities.