A Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is software that enables real estate owners and service providers to operate and maintain their buildings and technical assets in an efficient, cost effective, and compliant way. Benefits of CMMS software include forecasting, planning, and evaluating any type of maintenance work, either contracted or delivered by internal maintenance staff.
Due to the complexity of maintenance legislation, execution of maintenance work needs to be planned, monitored, and documented with great care. CMMS supports maintenance planners, engineers, and supervisors with tools and technology that ensure streamlined and compliant execution of work within a robust maintenance management system.
Advantages of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems include scenario planning tools and graphical plan boards to visualise upcoming work. Drag and drop functions allow you to move work, postpone activities, merge maintenance jobs or split activities. Impact on workloads and budgets is recalculated and visualised immediately. CMMS software supports resource planning to allocate maintenance teams or individual engineers to work, based on people’s availability, workloads, competencies and skills. Once the work is planned and allocated, Computerised Maintenance Management Systems support automatic dispatching to the applicable engineers by using workflow tools, automated job tickets, and mobile solutions.
All maintenance work and job tickets generated should be stored in a central work order repository. This allows you to easily search for open, planned, or closed maintenance work by building, asset, engineer or any other relevant search criteria. For each individual work order, details such as status updates, time spent, materials used, documentation, follow-up actions, planned budget, and actual costs are registered and available for reporting. The Computerised Maintenance Management System allows engineers to easily access their individual work, update or close job tickets, or query relevant asset information or maintenance procedures and checklists.
Maintenance is essential to keep equipment, buildings, and the work environment safe and reliable. Inadequate maintenance can lead to dangerous situations, accidents, and health problems. The maintenance process is also a high-risk activity and it has to be performed in a safe way, with appropriate protection for maintenance workers. CMMS software supports compliance with health and safety regulations to ensure both a healthy workplace environment and a safe execution of maintenance work. CMMS includes health and safety documentation, procedures, checklists, and workflows for any type of maintenance work to ensure compliance.
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In this FAQ, we explore questions many organisations have about improving their maintenance operations, and how Planon’s IWMS and mobile applications can support your organisation in achieving greater maintenance management efficiency and success.
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Planon’s Asset & Maintenance Management solution minimises asset downtime and disruption while managing the entire lifecycle from start of use, to ongoing management, to removal or sale of asset.
Read moreMaintenance engineers need access to their work anytime and anywhere, both in connected areas and places without internet. CMMS mobile maintenance supports field engineers in executing their daily work efficiently. Engineers can use their mobile device or smart phones to select their next job, read specific work instructions, query asset-specific information, capture time and materials used, complete a job, and add a customer sign-off. Mobile maintenance includes health and safety checks and dynamic risk assessments to ensure compliance with legislation and to reduce any risks involved.
To ensure efficient maintenance, monitoring dashboards and analysis help maintenance managers to identify potential cost savings and improvement opportunities. Implementing a CMMS gives you a broad range of management dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to analyse the performance of your assets and effectiveness of your maintenance programmes and investment. Online dashboards also allow you to monitor and evaluate the performance of providers, to determine if they meet contracted service level agreements (SLAs), uptimes, times to complete, costs and quality. These dashboards give maintenance planners immediate insight into actual operations, potential risks, and deviations in work execution.
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Reactive maintenance work, mostly caused by asset failures or maintenance backlogs, is expensive because it is not planned or budgeted but needs immediate action. Time based maintenance systems allow maintenance experts to plan and execute maintenance activities based on warranties, qualitative requirements, or compliancy and legislation. This type of time-based maintenance significantly reduces reactive work, including the corresponding costs.
However, more than 40% of this planned maintenance is still not executed on time, either too early or too late. Too late causes expensive reactive work, too early is a waste of investment and time. A Computerised Maintenance Management System ensures a timely execution of maintenance work with objective asset condition assessments.
Once the actual condition of an asset is assessed and scored, a CMMS automatically calculates and schedules the required maintenance. Extensive maintenance libraries of activities, deterioration curves, and cost catalogues feed the CMMS software with data and intelligence to ensure just-in-time maintenance execution.
The ultimate just-in-time maintenance is supported with real time tracking of actual assets status and data. Intelligent buildings and smart assets are connected to your IT network and send data about production hours, failure status, production numbers, and energy consumption in real-time to your Computerised Maintenance Management System. Based on preset thresholds or historical information, the CMMS software can accurately forecast relevant maintenance jobs, their costs, and timing.
A truly holistic view can help you avoid unnecessary maintenance and reduce associated costs. When combining your CMMS functionality into an Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), you can analyse maintenance relevancy related to your real estate strategy, space occupancy, user behaviour, or sustainability targets.
Why maintain a building that will be demolished? Why maintain HVAC equipment in spaces that are not occupied? Why not reduce maintenance effort by combining energy measures with preventative or condition based maintenance? This holistic and integrated view of maintenance is the key to success for cost efficiency, business continuity, and a sustainable maintenance strategy.
In capital-intensive industries such as utilities, manufacturing, pharmacy, healthcare, and real estate, physical assets form a significant portion of the organisations’ capital and investment. Any failure is disruptive and extreme costly. In addition, the management and maintenance of assets must comply with stringent occupational, environmental, and safety regulations.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software and Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) tools support organisations in maximising the return on investment from their asset repository by increasing asset productivity and minimising total costs of ownership. These costs include assets design, acquisition or replacement, operations, maintenance and demolishment. In most cases asset operations (including energy consumption) and technical maintenance reflect over 80% of these lifecycle costs. That makes a Computerised Maintenance Management System a core functionality of Enterprise Asset Management as it:
In Facility Management and Real Estate, CMMS functionality is in most cases embedded in an Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS). These solutions include EAM related processes aiming at FM and RE related assets such as buildings, workplaces, technical equipment, and installations.
Haslinda Shamsudin, Project Manager, Office of Campus Development: “Planon’s IWMS provided us with an efficient, real-time solution to overcome our workplace and facilities challenges.”
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