Maintenance Management System
What is CMMS?
CMMS – computerised Maintenance Management system is software used to manage the plant and equipment maintenance function in a manufacturing facility; like the same way materials, accounts and other functional departments record their transaction in ERP to measure the organizational performance. For maintenance, transaction is work order, corrective maintenance, preventive maintenance, spare parts management.
Why to have CMMS for your company?
Accurate information is critical for making decision that ensures the reliable operation of the equipment. The main elements of the maintenance function is collecting, analyzing, measuring the maintenance data and taking decision, today the amount of information that is collected processed and used for decision making takes a lot of time and needs a systematic approach, many a times the maintenance engineers are not comfortable with the amount and quality of the data. Maintenance management is a business process and CMMS software is the technology often used to automate and support that process. If there are flaws in your maintenance management function, software will not fix them, but certainly expose those snag/flaws with a quicker time
Which Key business area does the – CMMS address?
Asset Performance and Availability is two key business issues CMMS address.
FEATURES
- Rationalize PM interval and task List.
- Equipment failure rate getting better or worse.
- Cost of maintaining a machine.
- MTBF, MTTR, and equipment availability for equipments and plant.
- Assign engineers for work orders and work order tracking.
- Cost of doing a Particular task -PM or Corrective maintenance.
- Spares required for doing a Maintenance Job.
- Cost of spares, inventory in stock and Spares availability.