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Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Use Cases	Perimeter Security & Access Control
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Bridgford Foods, a food processing company, needed to enhance its security measures at its Statesville, NC facility. The company wanted to control the access of everyone who enters the building, including visitors, suppliers, employees, and service personnel, as part of its food defense strategy. The company had installed standalone, Kaba E-Plex 5700 Locks on two perimeter doors to enable access into the main building. However, the company wanted to extend its access control capabilities to ensure tighter control of who enters the building and protect against potential threats to its food supply. Read More
About Customer	Bridgford Foods Corporation was founded in the early 1930s by Hugh H. Bridgford. The company started as a series of retail meat markets in San Diego, CA, and has since expanded its operations to include meat wholesaling, frozen food distribution, meat processing, and frozen food manufacturing. Today, Bridgford Foods operates food processing plants in Anaheim, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, and Statesville, NC. The company's principal product lines include frozen bread dough for the food service and retail trade, shelf-stable dry and semi-dry sausage products, beef jerky, and long-life shelf stable sandwiches. Read More
Solution	To extend its access control capabilities, Bridgford Foods consulted Ace Locksmithing, a local locksmith and certified Kaba wireless dealer. After conducting a site survey, Ace Locksmithing recommended that Bridgford Foods upgrade their existing E-Plex 5700 Locks to E-Plex Enterprise with Wireless Option. This three-part upgrade adds Enterprise Software to a central workstation, wireless antennas to existing locks, and Gateway/Router(s) to communicate from the computer server to locks. With the addition of Enterprise Software, Bridgford can add an employee (including a photo), assign access schedules, manage guests/visitors, create access groups, create reports, and pull an audit trail from a central workstation. Read More Log in to view content
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Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Use Cases

Perimeter Security & Access Control

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Bridgford Foods, a food processing company, needed to enhance its security measures at its Statesville, NC facility. The company wanted to control the access of everyone who enters the building, including visitors, suppliers, employees, and service personnel, as part of its food defense strategy. The company had installed standalone, Kaba E-Plex 5700 Locks on two perimeter doors to enable access into the main building. However, the company wanted to extend its access control capabilities to ensure tighter control of who enters the building and protect against potential threats to its food supply.

About Customer

Bridgford Foods Corporation was founded in the early 1930s by Hugh H. Bridgford. The company started as a series of retail meat markets in San Diego, CA, and has since expanded its operations to include meat wholesaling, frozen food distribution, meat processing, and frozen food manufacturing. Today, Bridgford Foods operates food processing plants in Anaheim, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, and Statesville, NC. The company's principal product lines include frozen bread dough for the food service and retail trade, shelf-stable dry and semi-dry sausage products, beef jerky, and long-life shelf stable sandwiches.

Solution

To extend its access control capabilities, Bridgford Foods consulted Ace Locksmithing, a local locksmith and certified Kaba wireless dealer. After conducting a site survey, Ace Locksmithing recommended that Bridgford Foods upgrade their existing E-Plex 5700 Locks to E-Plex Enterprise with Wireless Option. This three-part upgrade adds Enterprise Software to a central workstation, wireless antennas to existing locks, and Gateway/Router(s) to communicate from the computer server to locks. With the addition of Enterprise Software, Bridgford can add an employee (including a photo), assign access schedules, manage guests/visitors, create access groups, create reports, and pull an audit trail from a central workstation.

Impact #1	The new system allows Bridgford to streamline its access control processes and enhance its access control intelligence.
Impact #2	The company can now schedule the times the employees can access a door and on what days.
Impact #3	The audit trail feature allows the company to track if a Bridgford employee was in the facility when a false alarm occurs.

Impact #1

The new system allows Bridgford to streamline its access control processes and enhance its access control intelligence.

Impact #2

The company can now schedule the times the employees can access a door and on what days.

Impact #3

The audit trail feature allows the company to track if a Bridgford employee was in the facility when a false alarm occurs.

Benefit #1	The new system allows the company to enroll a new employee in less than one minute.

Benefit #1

The new system allows the company to enroll a new employee in less than one minute.

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Bridgford Foods Extends Access Control Capabilities with Simple Wireless Upgrade

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