The philosophy of predictive maintenance is to: Watch carefully (monitoring), determine health status (diagnosis), predict future status (forecast), and return health to normal before complete loss of function (degradation, maintenance, prior to failure).
Those involved with health of humans (and pets) follow this philosophy. Those involved with the health of machinery, by adopting a predictive maintenance approach, are following the same philosophy.
Tip excerpted from Predictive Maintenance Management by Jack Nicholas Jr., P.E.
CMMS - Computerized Maintenance Management System from MicroMain
• What Are CMMS & EAM? • How Is Functionality Provided? • Why MicroMain? What Are CMMS & EAM?
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Systems are software packages designed to help you manage the maintenance of your facilities, buildings, and assets, which includes equipment and vehicles. With this software, you collect information—including workforce, tasks, time, and costs—in a central database, and use that data to improve your daily and long-term maintenance operations.
Facilities using CMMS or EAM systems include:
manufacturing plants
hospitals
schools and universities
federal, state and local governments
hotels
real estate organizations
retirement communities
Banks, parks and public works, and utilities also use CMMS and EAM systems, as do military organizations, convention centers, and shopping centers. In addition, MicroMain customers use CMMS and EAM software in sports arenas, warehouses, casinos, and many other entities, including multi-site enterprises.
From airports to zoos—and every industry in between—MicroMain software is helping organizations manage assets and facilities effectively.
How Is Functionality Provided?
MicroMain software is designed to be flexible. You need to be able to use a CMMS and EAM with the right functionality to meet your specific needs. With its basic features, options, and customizations, MicroMain gives you the functionality that makes the most sense for your organization.
The Basics
MicroMain’s Maintenance Management software includes basic functionality such as:
automating work orders
scheduling preventive maintenance
controlling parts inventories
tracking assets
creating purchase orders
managing fleet
easily accessing needed reports
Contract management, simplified work orders, and easy admin options for web requests and handhelds are also included. Many customers also use specific features for setting automatic alerts, printing barcodes, and viewing maintenance histories. It’s also simple to memorize and recall standard tasks, and manage warranties, suppliers, and vendors.
Options
Many customers choose these options to extend the basic functionality in their CMMS system:
web work requests
Pocket PCs for work orders and inspections
data-enabled facility drawings
deferred maintenance tracking
Pocket PCs for inventory counts
timesheets
key tracking
tool tracking
Other options include wireless data transfer, barcode scanning, smart phones for work orders, facility condition assessment tools, space planning, move management, and capital planning.
Customizations
Unlike other vendors, MicroMain makes its software available "open." This unprecedented offering gives you complete solution control and flexibility.
By having access to the source code, you have the option to use your own staff or contract with third-party programmers for any needed customizations. You can customize core functionality to suit your needs, modify parts of the program, or create your own custom reports.
Of course you can also rely on MicroMain for a thorough needs analysis and cost-effective customizations. Learn more about MicroMain Maintenance Management Why MicroMain?
You'll find MicroMain in every state, every Canadian province, and more than 25 countries. In virtually every industry, MicroMain is enabling customers to streamline operations, improve productivity, and reduce costs.
Learn more about why 3100 customers have selected MicroMain.
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CMMS– MicroMain Corporation provides easy-to-use CMMS maintenace software for facility management and plant asset management. With
this Computerized Maintenance Management System, organizations improve equipment maintenance, extend asset life, and reduce MRO costs. Customers can increase preventive maintenance and reduce resources used for demand work orders with this comprehensive CMMS.
CAFM– MicroMain Corporation provides easy-to-use CAFM software for facility management. With this Computer Aided Facility Management Software organizations improve facility maintenance, assist with building maintenance, and reduce
maintenance costs. Customers increase preventive maintenance and reduce work orders with this comprehensive CAFM.
Preventive Maintenance - Our CMMS maintenance programs integrate with our CAFM programs to bring you the ultimate preventive maintenance software. Plan ahead and ensure safety and cost-efficient preventive maintenance programs without the hassle.
CPAM– MicroMain Corporation provides easy-to-use CPAM software for capital planning and asset management. With this Capital Planning and Asset Management Software, organizations see the big picture of their current building and asset infrastructure and capital renewal needs. Customers create capital plans and track the work completion and actual costs of the plans over time in MicroMain’s CMMS.
Customized and easy to use CMMS, maintenance management, preventive maintenance, CAFM, and capital planning programs that save time & money
