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CMMS
CMMS
CMMS
Management Systems
Adam Adgar
School of Computing and Technology
What is a CMMS?
► Computerized Maintenance Management System
► Very important operational and management tool
► Management of assets, improving reliability, reducing
downtime.
► CMMS functions:
◼ automating administrative tasks
◼ gathering relevant information
◼ develop and manage a maintenance strategy
◼ plan schedules for maintenance, replacements, upgrades.
Why use a CMMS?
► The primary purpose of a CMMS is to manage, capture, and track
inspection, maintenance and repair activities of an organization.
► Basic CMMS functionality
◼ providing work orders to cover repairs and maintenance of buildings, plant
and equipment.
◼ They provide a scheduling facility for maintenance for planned preventive
work on maintainable assets.
◼ And they also generally collect costing details for the labor and materials
related to the work performed.
► Advanced CMMS functionality
◼ analyse maintenance and repair processes
◼ visualise trends
◼ eliminate manual data entry
◼ incorporate alerts, triggers, and escalation procedures
◼ shift focus from administrative tasks to maintenance activities.
◼ assist in planning and predicting future needs, prolong asset life, manage
processes.
Requirement for CMMS
► Regularly scheduled equipment inspection and maintenance
prevents sudden and unexpected equipment failure and reduces
overall costs
► The management of these programs, in particular reporting
their current status and future needs, requires a CMMS.
Managing the operation of on-site maintenance staff and
contractors is a daunting and difficult task, however, if there is a
corresponding record within the CMMS then this tracking and
management is much easier.
► Even if you are duplicating data to what is in your contractor’s
CMMS (the contractor’s CMMS may not be on your premises), it
is extremely important that you have your own copy of data.
Your contractor may cease to exist and for the sake of future
reference and reporting it is essential you have your own CMMS
populated with your own data.
CMMS Information
► Consideration what information is stored – what do we WANT to keep,
and what do we HAVE to keep?
► manufacturer’s specifications
► management requirements
► , there are many statutory requirements and regulations that impact on
this question such as fire, health and safety, and environmental
legislation.