The maintenance budget is a big and tempting target! Maintenance management is normally a labor intensive and capital intensive process. Significant labor must be spent in doing the actual maintenance work, employee training and retention. Besides the cost of such labor there are significant expenses associated with purchasing and stocking spare parts and maintenance supplies.
Complex planning required! With several different types of equipment it can be hard to figure out the best times to schedule preventative maintenance. Some maintenance may take several days to complete causing issues with operations/ production who need the equipment to be available and functioning. Several periods during the year can be bad because they …
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Keeping track of cost and labor overruns can be hard! When running a large maintenance management program where several hundred work orders or more are generated monthly it can be hard for managers to keep an eye on material and labor overruns. Not being able to track such items will result in unexpected expenses that …
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Maintenance management plans have a purpose! Maintenance management software (CMMS software) systems typically have a variety of reports for different purposes. Unfortunately many of these reports provide you no way to measure how well you are doing compared to plan. This is especially important because you want to make sure that the actual maintenance you …
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