What Is CMMS? – Features, Benefits and How It Works

ZAGREB, Croatia - May 4, 2023 - PRLog -- What Is A CMMS?

The acronym CMMS stands for Computerized Maintenance Management System. This software package was designed to manage maintenance practices globally, on a strategic, financial, and operational level. It is today the essential software of the industrial sector. Much more than simple computer programming, it is an assistant for maintenance teams, the cornerstone of industrial efficiency.

What Is The Role Of A CMMS?

• Knowing and identifying and managing the equipment to be maintained: inventory, location, management of relative information by type of equipment.
• Manage maintenance practices: preventive, curative, corrective, and improvement.
• Manage intervention requests.
• Manage spare parts stocks: by keeping the store up to date, better controlling restocking, and paying attention to stock valuation.
• Manage purchases of supplies and services (equipment rental): purchase requests, orders, and supplier invoicing.
• Coordinate staff and schedules: activities, jobs, load plan, forecasts, etc.
• Manage costs and budget: preparation of budgets, periodic monitoring, reports of variances between forecasts and actual costs, etc.
• Monitor the performance of the activity thanks to the key performance indicators represented in the form of dashboards specifying the requests, the statistics, the number of alerts, the MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Pareto's law, etc.

Who Is Affected By This Type Of Software?

• The real estate sector uses it to centralize information related to building maintenance practices.
• The energy sector uses it in the management of network equipment.
• The transport sector uses CMMS to monitor its infrastructures.
• The public sector uses it in the management of public buildings in communities.
• The medical sector uses CMMS for the maintenance of equipment, essential for medical operations.
• The industrial sector uses it for the maintenance of automated machines.

Benefits Of CMMS

• Improvement of the availability rate of equipment and better analysis of its lifespan and long-term depreciation.
• Cost reduction.
• Improved stock management.
• Optimization of the organization of the technical service thanks to the recording of operating modes, the monitoring of interventions, and the increase in preventive actions.
• Inventory of equipment, incident prevention, planning, and monitoring of regulatory controls.
• Control of the quality of the unit's customer services and monitoring of the evolution of the breakdown rate thanks to the indicators delivered by the software.
• Centralization of technical, administrative, and financial documentation for equipment and traceability of history and costs related to maintenance operations carried out on each piece of equipment.
• Improved decision-making on the renewal of equipment, the internal and external maintenance budget to be allocated to equipment, the choice of partners (suppliers, subcontractors, and manufacturers), etc.

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