1. Main Window/ Home Page
This is your entry point into the system. From here you can do things like check current maintenance statistics, create and update work orders on equipment/ locations, review a variety of maintenance reports, check maintenance due on equipment, locations and other assets, track usage & costs of maintenance spares, create purchase orders and so on.
2. Equipment
Equipment can be machinery, fixtures, jigs, etc. – assets on which maintenance is required. You can create work orders, assign spare parts, define meters & alarms. You can create additional custom fields (user defined fields) on equipment if needed.
3. Locations
Locations can represent buildings, rooms, etc. in your facility. They help you organize and manage your facilities maintenance. You can create work orders, store parts & supplies as well as assign equipment to a location. You can create additional custom fields (user defined fields) on locations if needed.
4. Tasks
Tasks are templates for breakdown/ preventative maintenance work orders. Group maintenance jobs into repeatable tasks. Save time & reduce repetitive data entry.
5. Maintenance Work Orders
Work orders for preventative (planned) as well as breakdown (unplanned) maintenance are created off task templates based on a task’s frequency settings. Work orders are pre-filled with the information from the task – reducing your data entry and making it easier to remember what needs to be done. You can change the generated work order to reflect different equipment/ parts/ people from the task.
6. Maintenance Spare Parts
FastMaint allows one to associate parts with maintenance tasks & work orders. It keeps track of when to re-order parts/ spares, vendors and equipment the parts are associated with as well as provide support for creating purchase orders & tracking their status.
7. Vendors/ Suppliers
FastMaint allows you to associate vendors/ suppliers with spare parts & equipment. You can specify one or more contacts at each vendor for different services e.g. equipment sales, warranty support, complaints, etc. Specifying a “Vendor Rating” is a useful way to tag preferred suppliers for parts. Purchase orders can be created for vendors.
8. People/ Maintenance Team
Here you to enter information about your maintenance team – the personnel/ technicians/ sub-contractors who will complete the maintenance work. You can enter information about working days, rates, contact information and so on. Each person could have a different working calendar e.g. “Full Time Employee” calendar, “Part Time Employee” calendar and so on.
9. Maintenance Planning – Create daily/ weekly work plans
The Planning Report makes it easy to create work plans & email/ print work orders for any period you specify. You can customize the report & printed work orders to suit your needs. If you have the Professional or Web editions you can automatically process emailed work order updates from maintenance staff in response to the emailed work orders you sent to them.
10. Report Designer
The Report Designer allows you to create custom reports using a familiar WYSIWYG word processing environment. You can use existing reports as templates to create custom reports. The custom reports that you create can be made available to other users or just for your own use.
The picture show an example parts report template in FastMaint Standard/ Professional. The interface is similar in FastMaint Web.
11. Report Output
The Report Designer allows you to create custom reports using a familiar WYSIWYG word processing environment. You can use existing reports as templates to create custom reports. The custom reports that you create can be made available to other users or just for your own use.
The pictures show an example parts report based on the previous template in FastMaint Standard/ Professional. The interface is similar in FastMaint Web.
