Computerized Maintenance Management System
A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is software that records information regarding maintenance operations, such as repairs to equipment, machinery, and other assets. Database is the heart of a CMMS and it has a data model that integrates data about the assets that a company is responsible for maintain. As well as this software enhances asset management, by removing the need for manual spreadsheets and combining all maintenance assigned task in one location. When considering about the history of the CMMS, first CMMS software was released in 1965 and it was used by major manufacturers with IBM mainframe computers. However there are free CMMS packages available, nevertheless, many businesses still utilize on pen, paper, spreadsheets, or don't have any maintenance operations at all. CMMS have special features and those features can able to solve 90% of maintenance problems in the organization.
• Work order management - A digital work order builder enable to prevent downtime, inefficiency and lack of information for maintenance team.
• Scheduled maintenance planner - The scheduled maintenance planner help to solve main three problems of maintenance activities in the organization. Those are relying on reactive maintenance, doing too much preventive maintenance and overspending.
• Asset profile and management - Through digital asset profiles, CMMS provides a better approach to organize, track, and optimize assets and also digital asset profiles provide to team all the information they require to overcome some common obstacles, such are demanding audits, building accurate budgets and inefficient PMs.
• Inventory management - A CMMS help to purchase, organize, and use inventory by solving disconnected maintenance, high cost and hard to find inventory.
• Maintenance reporting – Can get the data that need to take insightful decisions with one-click reporting.
• Mobile app - A mobile CMMS app enables to perform maintenance whenever and wherever need it, putting an end to bothersome issues.
On-Premise CMMS and Cloud-Based CMMS are the type of CMMS system and when selecting the computerized maintenance management system should consider requirement of the business, required resource and potential for growth. As well as CMMS software can be beneficial to any industry that requires some kind of maintenance activities. The features they use may vary depending on the size of their operations and the assets they use, but most organizations rely on the basic functions of generating and managing work orders. However by implementing CMMS, can be gained more benefits. Such are,
• Organized maintenance schedule
• Real time asset information
• Proper work orders and requests
• Cost control
• Increase efficiency
• Improve health and safety
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