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CMMS Cost Justification: How Do You Justify the Purchase of a New CMMS System?

by John Reeves

Questions

  1. Are you purchasing a new system which is “best of breed?”
  2. Are you after a different system because the current product is declining?
  3. Are you trying to improve process, utilization, analytics and decision-making capabilities (at the same time as purchasing a new product)?
Demanding Excellence from Your Asset Management System

Demanding Excellence from Your Asset Management System

Organizations that aggressively pursue operational excellence have the best opportunity for enhanced profitability. They also realize value provided from a purpose-built computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), precisely configured to extract knowledge and manage by exception. However, the CMMS is only as good as the surrounding process and roles. Hence, a comprehensive plan is needed that encompasses the entire asset management system to enhance reliability, workforce productivity and job safety.

You Told Us…Here’s What We Heard

Dave Bertolini

Over the last few months, People and Processes, Inc. has been conducting a survey of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), enterprise asset management (EAM), or enterprise resource planning (ERP) utilization, understanding, value to the organization and integration in support of maintenance activities.

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.

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Business Analytics

by Paul Berberian

Recent trends show that more and more manufacturers are looking to expand in the U.S. or move capacity back from overseas. To do this, companies will have to look for new, smarter ways to improve performance, increase machine reliability, maximize workforce effectiveness and increase uptime.

How Failure Data Contributes to the Success of Your Reliability Program

How Failure Data Contributes to the Success of Your Reliability Program

Although more and more industrial plants have been incorporating reliability into their vocabulary, in several cases, something has been lost in translation. More times than not, when asked about their asset reliability program, maintenance reliability organizations do not have a process in place to document asset failures, specifically the utilization of failure coding within their computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). The goal of this article is to shed light on the long-lasting benefits of documenting failure data so that organizations not doing so become the exception rather than the rule.

Why Your Fluid Analysis 
Program May Not Be Living 
Up to Your Expectations

Why Your Fluid Analysis Program May Not Be Living Up to Your Expectations

Many condition monitoring (CM) programs fall short of expectations due to overlooked critical steps and practices from the outset.

Reliability and the MRO Supply Chain: 4 Essential Tools

Many companies continue to struggle with the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) issue by ignoring or at least tolerating the existence of the MRO storeroom and the necessary operations around it. Few companies work to improve the MRO function in the supply chain and some do not even consider MRO storeroom management as part of plant operations at all. Others are striving to strike a balance in managing MRO.

The New Generation of
Maintenance Management

The New Generation of Maintenance Management

The days of the grizzled old maintenance guy who remembers everything he or she needed to know about all the equipment are gone.

What is guaranteed Maintainability?

It might seem trivial, but the best way to improve reliability is to choose equipment that doesn't breakdown! At the very least, choose designs that when they do fail they are easy, inexpensive and quick to fix. With the right choices in the beginning, maintenance departments can guarantee maintainability. The field of guaranteed maintainability was coined by Atlanta based consultant, Ed Feldman.

What Is Industrial Maintenance as a Service?

What Is Industrial Maintenance as a Service?

Industrial maintenance as a service (#imaas) transfers the digital and/or manual management of maintenance and industrial operations from machine users to machine manufacturers (OEMs), while improving it considerably.

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