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Maintenance
Management: An
Overview
Jonathan Trout, Noria Corporation
What Is Maintenance
Management?
Maintenance management is deEned as the process of
maintaining a company's assets and resources while
controlling time and costs, thereby ensuring maximum
e@ciency of the manufacturing process. Maintenance
management has gone from an archaic, tedious,
handwritten process to a computerized maintenance
management system (CMMS) — a software that plans,
tracks, measures and optimizes all forms of a
maintenance program in one central system.
The Objectives of
Maintenance Management
All forms of maintenance management share the
common objective of analyzing production and Ending the
best practices and processes within a speciEc Eeld.
Analyzing reports from a CMMS, for example, lets you
control costs, schedule work properly and e@ciently, and
ensure failures and breakdowns are kept to a minimum.
The main objectives of maintenance management
nclude:
• Cost control/budgeting:
Maintenance management tools
provide managers with the
necessary information to properly
allocate funds from the budget. Cost control is
important because some costs are a better use of
the company's funds than others. For instance, a
maintenance manager might need to buy a
replacement part for an asset. She might have to
choose between a cheaper part that's less durable
and a more expensive, longer-lasting part.
• Scheduling work/allocating
resources: Scheduling work and
allocating time and labor resources
so they're at their most productive
plays a key role in e@ciency. Maintenance
management gives a manager an ultimate
understanding of the overall process to help decide
priority levels of various activities. For example, if the
maintenance manager needs to verify the timely
delivery of a product, she might be inclined to
prioritize forklift maintenance to ensure the product
can be moved around the warehouse and onto the
delivery truck without interruption.
• Training: Maintenance
management programs should
include training personnel in speciEc
maintenance skills, improving
operational safety, advising on the acquisition,
installation and operation of machinery, and
enhancing the quality of the Enished product.
Computerized Maintenance
Management Systems
A computerized maintenance management system
(CMMS) is a software platform designed to simplify
maintenance management. This type of intuitive software
package keeps a computer database of information about
a company's maintenance operations and can produce
status reports and detailed summaries of maintenance
activities. Once analyzed, this information is meant to
allow maintenance personnel to do their jobs more
effectively and enable maintenance managers to make
nformed decisions, helping them manage costs and
allocate resources.
2 Asset
performance/reporting: A
company-wide CMMS gives the
organization a great way to
collect and analyze data from
each asset, so maintenance managers can more
easily see areas that need to improve e@ciency and
productivity. A big part of maintenance management
is tracking the use of your assets and how they're
performing. This includes looking at operational
hours, time-based gauge readings, mileage and
more.
3 Inventory management:
Keeping track of spare parts is a
daunting task. A CMMS helps you
get and stay organized by
automating inventory purchasing,
so you can have the correct parts when you need
them, in the correct amount.
Many CMMS systems let you log all spare parts and
note where they are stored, when they were
purchased, how to use them and their availability at
all sites across the organization. This way,
technicians know what parts they'll need for a repair
or preventive maintenance task, where those parts
are and how to use them.
• Calibration monitoring
• Energy monitoring
• Fleet management
• Linear assets
• Process management
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