What is CMMS and 4CSQL

CMMS is a Computerized Maintenance Management System, which delivers various benefits to organizations and industries with greater equipment assets by maintaining scheduled maintenance, tracking work orders and managing costs of maintaining these assets.

These benefits include:

1. Increased reliability to no longer to keep track of preventive maintenance by memory as the CMMS schedules the maintenance on a recurring basis and helps ensure the proper resources are available when needed.
2. A CMMS will can enable your maintenance team to receive and process maintenance requests 24/7. This can allow the maintenance manager and their team to prioritize jobs and create work orders.
3. Using a CMMS for inventory management will simplify your record keeping by easily tracking the cost of parts used in maintenance and run reports to analyse any data. This will also simply records required for audit purposes, etc.
4. Your CMMS will collect data about maintenance, repairs and inventory usage. This information will be used to predict when maintenance projects should occur and it will alert the maintenance team about any forthcoming issues before they even occur resulting in less unplanned downtime.
5. Reduced repair costs by fewer breakdowns, more time between repairs, a lower chance of major equipment malfunctions and an overall longer life span for machines.
6. You will have reduced downtime by making certain that maintenance occurs when it should, using data to ensure efficient maintenance scheduling and expected downtime occurs at a low-impact time.
7. A CMMS prevents dangerous equipment in disrepair and increases operator safety by confirming that equipment is operational, providing safer working environments for maintenance staff and adherence to safety act requirements.

How Is It Used?

CMMS is used to keep track of all aspects of maintenance performed on assets, equipment, locations and other items that make up your facility. It is flexible and easily customizable to meet your needs. You decide how you want CMMS to track your maintenance i.e. storing information about things you maintain (e.g. equipment), the resources used to maintain them (e.g. parts), scheduling maintenance, track history and cost of maintenance.

How to know if you need a CMMS?

1. Not sure if maintenance is done on critical equipment?
2. Not sure if maintenance is performed correctly?
3. Not sure if your teams are focussing on the correct maintenance tasks?
4. Little or no control over maintenance costs?
5. Frequent unplanned maintenance or breakdowns?
6. Lack of adherence to safety acts?

You should consider the benefits of CMMS for your organisation.