Articles: CMMS

50 Questions to Help Your CMMS Search

In order to avoid the most common pitfalls of choosing, purchasing, and installing computer control and information systems, ask yourself - and ask vendors - questions about the system. (Both the Maintenance Fitness Questionnaire and the section on installing PM systems from   Managing Factory Maintenance have additional ideas.)

ASPs for CMMS/EAM: The Right Choice

Quantum Leap – ‘One Small Step for Man…’

The ASP industry has transformed typical 9-to-5 development-centric software companies into 24-by-7 service-centric businesses. ASPs are now positioned to profoundly advance – should I be so cliché to say revolutionize? – the ways companies reduce their technology investment yet still have access to best-of-breed software and IT best practices.

Asset Management: Using Mobile Computing to gain a Competitive Advantage

Executive Summary: Mobile Directions in Equipment and Facility Maintenance

Industrial plants and commercial properties tend to be very large and widely distributed. Accordingly, maintenance functions have always been mobile, but until recently, access to maintenance data has been static.

Can a CMMS/EAM Solution Really Solve All Your Problems?

By Johnny Bofilios

After working in the CMMS/ EAM software world for almost 16 years, I recently switched to an engineering consulting firm focused on helping clients implement reliability best practices. I've developed a fresh perspective on what it takes to implement CMMS/ EAM software successfully.

Cintas Discovers Keys to Organizational Change Through CMMS Rollout

By Gene Pargas

Changing the way a large corporation operates is a challenge under any circumstances. But Cintas, one of America's largest providers of specialized business services, has discovered four keys to success that not only facilitated the launch of its first company-wide CMMS system, but could help others avoid costly delays and overcome crippling inertia.

Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Enhanced Operational Efficiency

A Brief Introduction to Cloud Computing

Software as a Service (SaaS), also commonly referred to as “cloud computing” or “on-demand services,” is sweeping through enterprises in just about every industry.

CMMIS In Support of Planning, Scheduling…

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination

Excerpted by permission from Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Coordination by Don Nyman and Joel Levitt (Courtesy of Industrial Press)

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CMMS - The Hub of Strategic Asset Management in Transportation and Transit

Everyone in transportation and transit organizations knows that their assets are critical to the overall success of the business. Asset availability and reliability is key to minimizing interruptions of the revenue stream. As a result, many transportation and transit organizations are looking at asset management as a strategic component in their quest for operational excellence.

CMMS Software for Hire

Application Service Provision (ASP)

There has been a trend in recent years towards the use of remote software services through Application Service Providers. These are companies who make software applications available via the Internet to users who, rather than buying software, pay rental fees for it.

CMMS Templates for Effective Implementations

Based on the book CMMS: A Timesaving Implementation Process (ISBN: 0849313597)

The Modern Maintenance Environment

As we commence the 21st century the burden of providing maintenance services to any organization has grown successively more and more difficult. Yet the technologies to support us today are also greater and more advanced than they ever were.

COGEP: Celebrating 20 Years Of Helping Businesses Control Management Costs

“We see the recession as an opportunity-since we’re in the business of helping companies reduce costs and maintain better control of their strategic assets!”

Common-Sense CMMS Combining Software and Handheld Devices

A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is an essential operational and management tool for managing asset preservation, ensuring that production systems operate as required, and minimizing downtime. An effective CMMS should be able to support these functions by automating administrative tasks, as well as by gathering relevant information in order to perform this processes. A CMMS also needs to be able to develop and manage a strategic plan for proper maintenance, replacement, and upgrade of major assets.

EAM versus CMMS: What’s Right for Your Company?

Enterprise asset management (EAM) software and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) continue to grab headlines as a realistic way to reduce expenses and increase revenues. For one, maintaining an adequate level of repair and service parts inventory based on forecasted equipment usage can prevent already limited funds from being over-allocated just to achieve a false sense of security.

Foundation for Maintenance & Reliability Excellence

By Sridhar Ramakrishnan

A robust asset management program is key to achieving operational excellence in any operating facility. This article explains the steps taken to put in place an asset management system for Suncor Energy Inc.'s new steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) facility in Alberta, Canada, before the plant is even commissioned.

FRACAS – Unleashing the Power of the EAM as a Reliability Improvement Tool

Note: Originally presented at EAM-2006 The Enterprise Asset Management Summit in Las Vegas.

A strong Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) is the backbone of a good asset performance improvement effort. The FRACAS provides the business elements required to close the loop on Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) efforts.