Maintenance Management Software Blog

7 Ways CMMS Software Helps Public Utility Maintenance Managers

August 13, 2018 August 13, 2018

Public utility maintenance is a critical function Public utilities cover a wide range of services from power generation & distribution, water supply, gas supply, waste water treatment and more. They provide essential services in a specific geographic area and have unique challenges. Most are heavily regulated and are required to provide uninterrupted services with few …

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Track Equipment Availability & Downtime With CMMS Software

July 11, 2018 August 13, 2018

Equipment Availability Is Not The Best Metric To Track! You want to measure total equipment downtime. Equipment availability especially when expressed as a percent can mislead. For example the equipment downtime doubles from say hundred hours to two hundred hours. However, you may just see a small percent drop in equipment availability if you have …

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How To Manage Maintenance Requests With CMMS Software

June 5, 2018 August 13, 2018

If you are responsible for managing maintenance at a large facility or industrial plant you will be handling a lot of requests for maintenance work. Most will be for emergency or breakdown maintenance. Here the requester wants an immediate fix. Others will be for planned maintenance. Here the requester will want you to do maintenance …

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Use Maintenance Calendars In Your Preventive Maintenance Schedule

May 15, 2018 August 13, 2018

Preventive maintenance is low on the totem pole! Working with operations to create a preventive maintenance schedule for vital equipment & facilities can become a challenge for maintenance managers. Breakdown maintenance is a priority since equipment needs to be up and running again. However, regular preventive maintenance is essential to keep equipment running smoothly and within operational …

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Using Maintenance Software To Identify Equipment Needing Replacement

April 10, 2018 August 13, 2018

Should you just replace old equipment? Many organizations have equipment that is several years old, maybe even several decades old. In fact there are quite a few that still use machines that are over a hundred years old! Just because equipment is old does not automatically mark it for replacement. There are several factors to …

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Role Of The Maintenance Planner In Maintenance Management Programs

March 7, 2018 August 13, 2018

What does the maintenance planner do? The maintenance planner has many responsibilities. Chief among them being to plan and schedule maintenance work. The planner also needs to make sure that spare parts and supplies are available to complete planned maintenance work as well as the technicians are available to do the work.

Maintenance Management Workflows – What Are They?

February 9, 2018 August 13, 2018

What Is A Workflow? A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. (source Wikipedia) A well organized maintenance management system will have fairly typical workflows (see the graphic below).

7 Key CMMS Software Features For The Maintenance Manager

January 11, 2018 August 13, 2018

CMMS Software Can Make A Difference E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co. (Delaware) reported that “The largest, single controllable expenditure in a plant is maintenance, and in many plants the maintenance budget exceeds annual net profit.” (1996) Maintenance planners and maintenance managers are responsible for making sure that equipment and/ or facilities are properly maintained and …

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6 Tips To Reduce Maintenance Management Costs

December 6, 2017 August 13, 2018

Facilities & equipment maintenance management costs can be significant! As a maintenance manager or supervisor you will frequently be under pressure to reduce the costs incurred by the maintenance department. Due to its impact on the bottom line senior management will also take interest. A report by E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co. (Delaware) said that …

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3 Ways To Improve Maintenance Spare Parts Management

November 8, 2017 August 13, 2018

The Hidden Costs Of Maintenance Parts Management Managing maintenance parts and supplies can be quite a challenge. This become a lot bigger if you have many types of equipment. Each type will need it own unique set of parts and supplies for corrective and preventive maintenance on the equipment. Equipment spares can also be quite …

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