26 Oct 10 Reasons to Implement a CMMS
Imagine being ahead of the game and being able to achieve the ideal balance of productivity, efficiency and economy required for world-class lean maintenance. Here are just 10 reasons to implement a CMMS and transform your factory:
- Find Focus – replace spreadsheets with a time saving CMMS that will automate standard maintenance processes, provide detailed analysis of asset performance, and help you balance workloads.
- Create a Vision – start to make maintenance decisions based on real information and move away from a reactive crisis management approach to an effectively planned maintenance management strategy.
- Build your business case – don’t lose your data to a black hole – use it. Highlight trends caused by rogue equipment, parts, and service providers, so that you can build a solid business case for investment.
- Share the knowledge – use the central library function as a knowledge-management tool to capture maintenance best practices, procedures, standards, history, and the personal insights of your team.
- Respond quickly – accelerate engineering response time to failure and keep everyone in the loop with Business Alerts. Alert different engineering resources depending on the task or the severity of the problem.
- Liberate your engineers – equip your engineers with real-time information via PDAs so they can check and allocate stock or initiate work-orders whilst they are on the move – reducing response/reporting times.
- Achieve energy efficiency – operate resourcefully to minimise planned and unplanned downtime and the resultant impact on energy consumption could be staggering.
- Fly through audits – make compliance traceable for audit at the click of a button – record Health & Safety procedures, maintenance activity on vital machinery, and set up prompts to ensure timely inspections.
- Impress your customers – demonstrate professionalism to your customers with sophisticated reporting modules. Use dashboards to share information across the factory and improve the visibility of the maintenance team.
- Drive Savings – prevent expensive repairs, improve efficiency of routine maintenance tasks, extend the life of equipment, banish stock-outs, reduce inventory value, and use maintenance engineers more effectively, to achieve year on year savings.
If you would like to learn more or would like help putting together a business case for a Maintenance Management System, then get in contact with us today.