Critical Step: Defining IT Platform and Process Requirements & Preferences
In the excitement over developing a CMMS implementation plan, selecting teams to provide input and other important activities, don’t overlook defining the heart of your CMMS implementation: your requirements for the technology itself. At its core, software is a tool running on one or more platforms and facilitating one or many processes. Your CMMS implementation […]
Have You Identified Your Tools? Are They Doing Their Job and at What Cost?
As we discussed in a recent blog, understanding current maintenance practices is a fundamental step in developing a successful CMMS implementation plan. One extremely important aspect of this effort is an inventory of software tools, which are a core component of data collection. Once you have identified the tools with which software data is being […]
Key Factor In an Effective CMMS Implementation Plan: Have You Identified Roles and Responsibilities?
Although management may know how many people in the organization are responsible for keeping the CMMS and other management systems running, they may not understand all their roles and responsibilities. Since you’re going down the path of centralizing your maintenance tools and reengineering some or all of your maintenance practices, it makes sense to identify […]
Developing an Effective CMMS Implementation Plan: Digging Deeper
In our first article in this series, we offered some insight into the challenges facilities face to maintain uptime. We also provided the logic for ensuring proper implementation and usage of a CMMS as a critical success factor. As part of that discussion, we introduced three defining activities that promote success with such a project: […]
Maintenance Efficiency of 75%? Our No-Strings Attached CMMS Plan Can Get You There!
As manufacturers strive to operate smarter, faster and leaner, modern maintenance staff are often tasked to do more with less. Upper management may view this as a sensible decision, since maintenance is the largest fixed cost in manufacturing. This is an unfortunate choice, because maintenance management is a proven driver of greater uptime. When maintenance […]
Paring Plant Expenses with Better Maintenance Controls: The Value Is Real
Although business and finance leaders may initially doubt the value of best-practices maintenance management, providing hard data of real value generally leads them to recognize the opportunity it presents. There is no dispute that up to 40% of a product’s total expense during its lifetime can be generated by maintenance costs. However, this figure illustrates […]
Boosting Productivity with Core Maintenance Activities
As most facility managers recognize, maintenance is an essential element of the operating continuity that underpins successful production management. Yet, we are always amazed to learn how often this function is not as proactively managed as it should be. Even in cases where the firm has deployed an EAM (enterprise asset management) or CMMS (computerized […]
Enhancing Major Projects and Plant Turnarounds with a Computerized Maintenance Management System
Changes in technology, the market and the economic environment have all boosted the value of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) for industrial facilities. This is true not only for daily maintenance management but also for special projects, such as plant expansions and retrofits, that necessitate total or partial outages. Given that planning and executing a […]
Maintenance Spares: The Hidden Cost Center in Your Storerooms
With carrying costs alone amounting to 40% of yearly organizational revenue, there is no dispute that poorly managed storerooms can be a major financial drain. However, many companies don’t consider the impact of inadequate maintenance spares management, which in itself can become a significant issue. Poor spares management leads to excessive inventory expenses and can […]
Unplanned Downtime: A Continuing Challenge for Organizations Everywhere
Modern facilities are expected to contribute value to the company’s bottom line by continuously improving asset performance. Process industries in particular are extremely asset intensive, which can make their challenges even greater. One area that continues to negatively impact profits, and diminish overall asset performance metrics, is unplanned downtime. If manufacturing operations are to be […]
