Does your company use any equipment that requires maintenance? Are you interested in updating any manual maintenance techniques? This article will explore computerized maintenance management system (or CMMS) software. Do you need CMMS for your business? What is CMMS Software?

Equipment for a business requires maintenance to prevent shut downs or unexpected problems. For example, you may run a business that bottles soda. If order to bottle your product you have an assembly line of machines. Each of these machines requires quarterly maintenance. Your current method of maintenance involves a manual system. On the outside of each machine is a small paper ticket. This ticket is taken once each quarter by one of your employees to a maintenance technician. The technician then schedules a time to repair the machine and leaves the card on the outside of the machine for next quarter. What would be different if you used a CMMS software instead?

Preventive maintenance CMMS software digitizes all these tasks. Instead of a ticket on the side of the machine, a ticket would be sent via email. Each quarter, the CMMS preventive software would contain a list of machines that need maintenance in its database, (entered by you or one of your technicians). The software would send an email to each technician, and once maintenance is complete, the software would log and set up the next quarter’s maintenance schedule. All these tasks would be complete and efficient.

What other task can CMMS help your company with? CMMS preventive software can also help with: managing inventory, work orders and purchase orders. Work orders are fully automated, giving options to generate based on time, date or work needed. Also, CMMS assists with the reliably of your equipment, employee scheduling, custom reports, and is available in many different languages. What are some of the benefits of CMMS software?

Peace of mind is the first benefit of CMMS software. There is no need to worry about missed maintenance due a lost ticket or an employee not remembering to take the ticket to a technician. All of this is done wirelessly, by the software itself. Another benefit of CMMS software is a custom detailed report of the maintenance send directly to you or your equipment maintenance supervisor. This report is generated automatically, eliminating the wait for the technician to come report verbally, or to send in a written report.

A useful feature of some CMMS software is web-based options. Many providers of CMMS preventive software allow the software to be accessed online. Once online users can oversee multiple locations and work remotely. Being on the web, CMMS software can be used by multiple users. This feature can be handy for an international or large company that has many work sites and a large volume of equipment to be maintained.

If you have need of fully computerized equipment maintenance, CMMS software is the solution for your business. CMMS software is reliable. CMMS software makes maintaining all your equipment hassle and worry free.