Paul Lachance, Smartware Group Inc.
Articles
CMMS contributes to total productive maintenance initiatives
When a manufacturing organization embarks on a total productive maintenance (TPM) project, especially maintenance operations, it is critical to get the feedback from any/all people impacted, down to machine operators. So often we hear about utopian desires from upper management related to maintenance operations. TPM would be much more successful if people working “in the trenches” are included in the design, implementation and intended outcomes of the project. This stretches way past the maintenance staff to equipment operators themselves who could be “deputized” to handle elementary quality control and preventive maintenance tasks. CMMS should be the operations management, planning, analysis and audit technology component of any plant TPM strategy.
When rolling out CMMS, make sure everyone gets involved
Enterprise-level CMMS promotes superior maintenance operations across the organization by sharing PMs and other best practices.
Scheduling preventative maintenance – timing is everything
CMMS Intelligence allows maintenance teams to reduce preventative maintenance and achieve maximum uptime.