does your organisation need a CMMS solution?
Today, more companies understand the benefits of implementing a CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System). In the past, maintenance management systems were only found in manufacturing companies but we are now seeing maintenance software being used in other areas such as education, healthcare, public services, facilities, retail among others. If you do not use a CMMS solution but you think your company might needs a maintenance management, going through these points can be very useful.
How do I know if a CMMS solution is right for my organization?
Answering and analysing the following questions can help you to know if your organization needs a maintenance management system.
What is the cost of unexpected stops in your company?
Check and analyse how much cost to your business stopping production processes. If your equipment downtown is quite high and you lose a considerable amount of sales and revenue, it might be the time to implement a CMMS software. This will lower maintenance costs, reduce equipment downtime and diminish possibilities of unexpected failures
Are your overall maintenance costs increasing?
CMMS software can help you to reduce your overall maintenance costs and it can be useful to predict overall maintenance costs, improving budgeting, and planning. Reviewing all previous costs related to materials, resources, and repair activities will give you enough insights to estimate future costs.
What is the reliability of your physical assets?
What we gain by maintaining our physical assets working properly is uptime: the capacity to product and provide goods and services. You depend on those assets for productivity and revenue generation and you want to maintain them at the lowest cost to sustain their performance.
If your equipment has costly maintenance or breakdowns, you might consider having in place a Computerised Maintenance Management Software
Do you know which assets are costing you the most and why?
Keeping maintenance costs to a minimum is impossible without knowing which assets are costing you the most and why those costs are so high. This is where CMMS comes into play. When you combine that with additional information like the average cost of downtime per hour, identifying the most expensive assets and finding out the reasons becomes easier.
What are your average time between failures (MTBF)?
Knowing how often a specific group of assets breaks down allows you to forecast and predict when the next breakdown may occur. This information enhances your maintenance planning efforts and allows you to allocate your maintenance resources.
Do you have a preventive maintenance program in place?
If you do not, it means that you do not have standardised processes and procedures in place involving automation. Preventive maintenance is essential for any industry because serves to reduce equipment downtime. Not only reduces the amount of time and money spent on repairing equipment. It also increases productivity and the life expectancy of equipment and reduces production standstills. If your maintenance department is still working from a manual or book, a clipboard or spreadsheets, you should be considering preventive maintenance software.
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