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"We used to have a different Computerized Maintenance Management System which had to be upgraded every two years at a cost of nearly $3,000 per plant for our 17 plants. With MicroMain we receive upgrades free with our Priority Support Subscription. This has saved us over $100,000 so far."
Derick Leppin
Ring Container Technologies
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 Manufacturing Overview
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Manufacturing and Plant Management Software
For more than a decade, MicroMain has delivered CMMS systems to manufacturing companies and industrial plants. Using MicroMain software, plant management professionals have benefited from asset preservation, equipment readiness, and operational improvements. |
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Meet Production Goals
Whether process or discrete, manufacturing plants need to meet production goals—delivering required quantities on schedule and within budget. Maximizing plant output and minimizing downtime and waste are critically important.
Hundreds of manufacturing organizations turn to MicroMain for help in managing assets. MicroMain Maintenance Management, an easy-to-use CMMS, enables managers to improve operations, increase productivity, and optimize preventive maintenance to keep equipment working at capacity.
Whether you are manufacturing continuous product or separate units, in one plant or in multiple plants around the world, you can use MicroMain to:
- Ensure equipment uptime/availability
- Prevent labor overtime
- Reduce inventory
- Meet lockout/tagout requirements
- Control operating costs
- Provide data showing compliance required by OSHA, FDA, EPA, and other agencies
Meet Plant-specific Needs
Your plant may be converting raw materials into finished goods, with emphasis on continuous or batch mixing, reaction or separation of materials. Or you may be producing goods that are assembled from finished components. Whatever your manufacturing environment—process, discrete, or hybrid—you are responsible for maintaining very different types of equipment, instruments, and systems.
You may also need to meet regulatory or internal requirements in your plant. This could entail very specific procedures, inspections, inventory tracking, and reports.
MicroMain allows you to meet your plant-specific needs. The software includes very comprehensive features related to automated work orders, preventive maintenance scheduling, asset tracking, inventory and cost control, and multiple reports. In addition, you have many customization and add-on options.
You can use this software to:
- Collect data used for workflow decision-making in PLM
- Follow procedures related to PLM, such as minimizing scrap through inventory/parts re-use
- Contribute to Six Sigma quality initiatives
- Access Material Safety Data Sheets, including attachment to work orders
- Track costs related to PLC or CNC maintenance
- Provide data showing CFR compliance
- Scale to your enterprise-wide plant needs
Maximize Equipment Availability
 In manufacturing, it’s imperative that equipment be readily available.
To ensure availability, you need to be able to respond quickly to requests for emergency repairs. With MicroMain software, you can identify the right labor and parts and immediately issue work orders detailing the repair needed.
You can also use the software to store data or integrate with tools enabling proper procedures for repairing equipment on the plant floor. These procedures may be internally required or federally required, such as securing equipment before maintenance to prevent the release of hazardous energy.
Reducing the number of emergency requests is also key. MicroMain allows you to schedule preventive maintenance with easy calendar control. From drill presses and lathes to oxidizers and centrifuges, regularly scheduled maintenance will keep your equipment working reliably.
Inspections will also help you ensure optimal equipment availability. MicroMain Maintenance Management allows you to define your own inspection points, which can be displayed in a drop-down field on a handheld Pocket PC device, if you wish. You can also automatically create corrective work orders from failed inspection points.
Project Budgets Accurately
Detailed cost and time analysis reports, including total cost of ownership (TCO) for assets and parts, will give you the drill-down data you need to more accurately project budget needs. These reports will also help you evaluate productivity and make adjustments to improve labor utilization. In addition, you can show extended asset life based on preventive maintenance, thereby reducing emergency purchases and overtime costs.
Organize Data and Operations
In your plant, you may organize maintenance needs by department, floor, or area. The sheet metal department, for example, may place different requirements on the maintenance department than the paint booths. In addition to manufacturing equipment and assets, you may also be responsible for maintaining facilities, grounds, parking garages, and plant-related support systems.
For some companies, different plants are responsible for different products in the manufacturing process. In this case, maintenance costs and productivity are measured both plant-wide and enterprise-wide.
Whether by equipment type, plant department, or individual site, you can use MicroMain to track data including costs, time, and maintenance deliverables. This software helps you to organize your data and your maintenance operations so that you are able to manage multiple areas and plant sites in the most productive way.
Generate Needed Reports
With MicroMain software, you’ll be able to easily generate the reports you need. You can run top-level reports for supervisors or CFOs. For your own department, you can access multiple, detailed reports to help you fine-tune your maintenance management operations.
MicroMain includes more than 400 standard reports covering assets, labor, parts, costs, and more. You can also create your own reports.
Make Well-informed Decisions
Because lean manufacturing strives to eliminate non-value-added activities, all departments work toward increasing capacity and decreasing spending. Outdated and out-of-capacity manufacturing equipment is also a target for controlling costs—yet many manufacturing plants are not able to proceed with capital expenditures. These challenges directly affect your maintenance and asset management operations.
Cost-effective MicroMain gives you the tools you need to control labor, contracted services, parts, and asset maintenance costs. From pressure regulators to metal fabrication systems, you can use historical, current and projected costs to better manage dollars spent on equipment maintenance.
You can also generate comprehensive reports. From production of beverages to components for cars, data in your reports will help you track asset management costs and trends. This will help you make well-informed decisions for the future.
Customize with Open Source Code
MicroMain products are shipped “open,” with all source code included, allowing you to customize the software as needed. MicroMain does not charge extra for source code and believes each customer should be able to have complete control over the software.
Some customers customize on their own while others use third-party developers. Many customers prefer to have MicroMain provide customization due to our expertise, software proficiency and rapid execution. MicroMain will analyze your requirements, design clear specifications, and provide firm cost estimates to ensure our products meet your needs in a cost-effective manner.
Work Efficiently
With MicroMain software, you can work more efficiently with Pocket PCs, phones, and other handheld devices for work orders, inspections and inventory control. Receive work requests via the Internet, as well. You can also:
- Use labor timesheets
- Track tools and keys
- Use data-enabled drawings for space planning
- Track assets and personnel visually
- Catalog deferred maintenance needs
- Assess facility conditions
- Develop capital plans
- Use wireless and barcode-enabled handhelds
MicroMain’s flexible features and customizations give you simply everything to manage your manufacturing or plant sites—simply.
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• Abbott Laboratories
• General Electric
• Purina Mills, Inc.
• Loreal
• Newell-Rubbermaid
• Lockheed Martin
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