Success story
BASF – Maintenance Aligned with Regulations
- Optimize factory maintenance by unifying it in a single system for all assets, helping to comply with important laws and regulations.
- The company had a large volume of assets: more than 800 process functions and 6,000 instruments.
- For each of them, it had to be demonstrated that it was maintained in line with the relevant regulatory provisions.
- Such normative, legislative and regulatory requirements were increasingly strict.
- Implementation of an EAM system that optimizes and standardizes maintenance tasks, improves operations and reinforces safety in the factory (HSE).
- Integration with a document management system to obtain real-time information on a single platform and facilitate its application in multiple disciplines.
- Much greater ease in demonstrating regulatory compliance.
- Increased efficiency of technical personnel.
- Flexible solution for collaboration with external partners.
For more than 150 years, since its foundation in 1865, BASF has become one of the world’s leading chemical companies. From its beginnings as a dye factory, the company has evolved to encompass the manufacture of a wide range of chemical products: from plastics to construction materials or industrial chemicals.
How to Manage Such a Large Volume of Assets?
BASF’s production covered such dimensions that keeping the thousands of processes and instruments under control was no easy task for BASF. In addition, the various regulations that control the chemical sector on a daily basis, which are becoming increasingly strict, required exhaustive control of all assets.
As a comprehensive EAM, IFS Ultimo centralized all the information of each individual asset in a common point for all. In this way, the company benefits from time savings in work preparation, and from a more efficient execution of maintenance activities for thousands of assets.
