CMMS – Computerised Maintenance Management Software
Published on : Sunday 05-02-2023
Satish Nande elaborates on a software solution for a well-oiled plant operation.
The ultimate goal of any maintenance department is to ensure that production is not hampered by them. And that's precisely what a CMMS helps you to achieve. It is not just software that merely digitises your operations; it presents a great bandwidth with in-depth functionality to help you to monitor your KRAs and KPIs.
A CMMS practically covers all aspects of the maintenance operations, thus helps to standardise the system across the machine families. This helps enterprises get maximum benefit of all its features, which ensures your system is up and operational over the years.
It not only simplifies plant maintenance by enhanced visibility at the shop floor level, but also helps optimise plant assets and resources, enabling the plant to operate with high asset uptime and at peak efficiency.
1. Improves production uptime
2. Reduces unplanned stoppages
3. Lowers maintenance expenses
4. Helps utilise human resources effectively
5. Enhances asset life through best practices
Benefits of CMMS for top management
It enables to increase the overall plant efficiency and throughput. It helps to fast-track Industry 4.0 initiatives more confidently. Moreover, it helps reduce unplanned expenses, especially related to spares and repairs. It also lets the management to improve utilisation of productive resources and enables them to monitor KPIs more easily.
Benefits of CMMS for maintenance engineers
It helps maintenance engineers to achieve timely maintenance by improving response time. It supports them to align PM schedules with production more easily. It ensures a more realistic allocation of resources and manpower. Last but not the least, helps them take data-centric, informed decisions rather than decisions based on gut-feeling.
Benefits of CMMS for maintenance operations in-charge
It makes life simpler and more stress-free for maintenance operations in-charge. It is the best tool to build a sound and sustainable maintenance strategy. It helps create a centralised knowledge base. Moreover, it enables to implement TPM and to enhance PM, PDM and Proactive maintenance.
CMMS standard modules are designed to ensure zero-stoppage time and total peace of mind.
The standard modules include:
Breakdown module
The right breakdown data will help you eliminate faults, by taking informed action. This module enables the maintenance team to analyse each machine in line with its history of breakdowns. This comes with all needed reports like MTBF, MTTR, Pareto Analysis, Percentage Breakdown, and so on.
Preventive maintenance module
It is a simplified and ready to use PM module that helps the team to develop and maintain a yearly/weekly calendar to track PM schedules and provide on-time PM compliance.
TPM module
It helps companies to analyse machine failures using 5 Why Analysis, 6W2H and Machine Failure Ranking. It is achieved with comprehensive data visibility, thus maximising operational efficiency by moving towards a zero-breakdown regime.
Spares management module
This module is designed to monitor and track movement of spares throughout the maintenance operations. Most importantly it helps accurately track the Consumption of Spares across the Machines.
Repairs module
Helps track the repair of repairable spares and their history through serial number control. It thereby gives the maintenance personnel more control over repairable and recyclable spares, such as motors, drives, spindles, etc. And helps you decide its re-purchase or scrappage.
Lastly, it offers Contract Management Module (AMC) and Utility Equipment Monitoring Module for best assessment of machines.
Its open interface facilitates integration with other modules, the current systems and even the ERP in the company. It is also compatible with Industry 4.0 or IOT Initiatives for added efficiency and convenience.
OPSCALE is an insightful business suit to enhance Operations, Sales and Manufacturing Support. OPSCALE-FTM is the complete CMMS that simplifies the plant maintenance by enhancing visibility and transparency. Devised with key insights from the industry, it helps optimise plant assets and resources, enabling the plant to operate at peak efficiency.
Satish Nande is Director – OPSCALE-CMMS, Werardt Systemss. He has done his engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications. As a key person of OPSCALE-CMMS for more than 3 decades, he has gained a complete understanding of maintenance processes inside out. Satish has been a part of the maintenance solutions which has transformed the way maintenance management is perceived. He has an aptitude for the domain and continuously strives to improve the software, thereby taking it to newer heights. He may be reached by mail: [email protected]