Responding to today’s business challanges, leading computerized maintenance management systems developers continue to enhance the functionality and capability of their software and services.
1. Increased functionality
Larger computerised maintenance systems now provide:
2. CMMS comes of age, enhancing ERP and EAM Maintenance Management is increasingly believed to hold the key to profitability and now features in most enterprise management tools. Maintenance management funtionality is included in EAM (enterprise asset management), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CMMS systems. EAM and ERP systems provide enterprise wide data and are complimentary to CMMS. To reap the advantages of efficient maintenance and receive company wide information management, businesses need to link a suitable computerized maintenance system with their ERP or EAM system.
3. Enable maintenance on the move!
Maintenance technicians are stretched to cover wider areas on lower budgets. Over the last 5 years the meteoric rise of wireless communications has made it possible for CMMS suppliers to support the need for mobile maintenance the computerised maintenance management system. PDA based maintenance systems allow more flexibility and movement. PDA systems. The following areas are where CMMS advantages are most obvious:
* Asset auditing
* Work orders
* Stock inventory
* Alerts advising key personnel of production breakdowns
4. Easy access for all management
As a vital tool in the battle for lean manufacturing processes, a CMMS should be used widely across the organization by appropriate staff. We inhabit a world with a multi-ethnic workforce with a wide range of computer literacy.
Easy to use dashboards are essential to ensure that all employees adopt similar working methods and to minimise the need for training. Where manual data entry is required, text editors and pop up calendar scheduling makes text entry straightforward. Modern maintenance systems save time, allowing bulk alterations to tasks.
Ease of capturing and sharing information is a significant part of a CMMS. As personel leave companies, it is vital to document proceedures for incoming staff. The powerful computerised maintenance management system packages allow users to find and attach multiple documents to both work orders and tasks and associate multiple standard texts with a project. Some systems allow for multiple users to share the same PC, with user configurable desk-tops and reports.
5. Enhanced visibility
Maintnenance managers are able to spot progress of projects, current problems and the position of important assets. Clear, simple interfaces help demonstrate the value of the maintenance department and can also enhance the wider factory culture, with everyone working from a very visible report that helps to encourage teamwork. The economic climate has forced companies to review the performance of its maintenance operation. The success of cost control, asset maximisation and downtime minimisation is largely dependent on the maintenance team.
CMMS investment is vital if asset management is to move in a proactive direction, driven by effective equipment maintenance.