Blog of maintenance management and CMMS software

As a vital part of a successful industrial maintenance program, electrical equipment maintenance is of crucial importance for the plant’s safety.

Installation, maintenance, and repair of roof require a lot of planning and work. The roof is expected to perform more than its basic function to better serve customers, the environment, and the community.

To start our new series dedicated to maintenance careers, learn about the maintenance engineering technician, the technical asset of the maintenance service.

A reliable CMMS plays a crucial role in the agricultural sector ensuring that all machines are working properly.

One thing is clear: many companies still are afraid to work with subcontractors for many reasons. Why are they often so reluctant?

With the help of industry 4.0 solutions, including Mobility Work, Spartacus3D created LETo, a metal additive manufactured robotic clamp presenting technical characteristics which were studied and optimized for the forging environment.

Marc-Antoine Talva, Mobility Work's CEO, tells us more about his experience in the industrial maintenance world and explains how the idea to create Mobility Work came out.

Today, new management tools are created almost everyday: we made a little selection in order to help you manage our equipment industrial maintenance.

Frédéric Carrot is a maintenance manager at the Setforge’s plant in L'Horme. As an early user of Mobility Work, the next-gen maintenance management platform, he agreed to look back over the product's evolution over the years.

Classical CMMS-software don't entirely meet companies' needs anymore. To achieve a successful equipment maintenance, they need to opt for brand new models!

The latest digital trends along with predictive maintenance in industrial equipment maintenance allow manufacturers to streamline maintenance in the oil and gas industry.

Frédéric Lefresne, engineer, tells us more about his educational background. He also explains why he thinks that it is crucial to give the perception of industrial maintenance a new lease of life.

Knowing how critical every piece of equipment is at your plant will help you identify potential bottleneck machines. These are the highly critical assets on which the entire production depends.

Today, CMMS tools have become essential, yet the industrial maintenance world is hardly changing and needs to modernize. Do we have to think the whole field over?

Mobility Work gives the possibility to its customers to innovate and to put information at the heart of their company.

An industrial maintenance contract is an agreement between several parties governing the professional relationships between a customer and a service provider.

In the search of the best tools to gather, summarize, analyze and deliver important data, companies are starting to integrate more and more their CMMS in their audits.

In this first episode, Anthony Blanchard, maintenance manager at FMGC shares his experience with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Dominique Domas is an International Reliability Manager in Saint Gobain Sekurit International. He agreed to tell us about the first stages of the deployment of Mobility Work within the group, and to talk about his objectives in order to standardize good maintenance practices.

Based on this observation, we decided to create Mobility Work, the first maintenance social network, and offer more than a simple CMMS software.

The main goal of the Pareto distribution is to classify maintenance interventions according to their frequency, then to rank them according to their priority. However, industry 4.0 solutions brought us to question the relevancy of Pareto diagrams.

Mobility Work is a cloud-based SaaS app. Its mplemention does not require any IT intervention, neither does it require any particular infrastructure.

Hervé Vourron is a production manager at Sarplast. He witnessed the early development of the app and is now a convinced client and agreed to share his experience regarding the evolution of the product. 

This is the actual question asked by every decision-maker in every company before purchasing and implementing a CMMS software: what is the cost, and what will be the advantages for the company?

You can now easily join the platform as a machine and consumable manufacturer or as a service provider.

Are the profound transformations triggered by the emergence of industry 4.0 calling into question the use of the term “CMMS”?

A computerized maintenance management system, deployed at a food processing plant should adhere to strict standards.

Mobility Work’s philosophy, which is very different from other CMMS editors, is to accompany you throughout your project and transition to maintenance 4.0.

Hubert Marion is a maintenance manager at Bericap France. Convinced to join the next gen maintenance management platform by one of his colleagues, he kindly agreed to talk about his personal experience with Mobility Work.

We are used to very simple tools in our daily lives, so why would the creation of a piece of equipment be more complicated than publishing an add on an e-commerce website?

Mobility, which has become a topic of concern for an increasing number of companies, is part of a digitalization approach of the plant: industry 4.0.

The industry 4.0 CMMS can be easily integrated in the context of the IoT, cloud and cognitive computing to become an indispensable part of the smart factory.

The maintenance sector has undergone profound changes in the past few years, and is now considered as a cornerstone of the industrial activity and productivity.

The CMMS aims at being at the heart of the information of your plant, and has to allow you to gather all the information linked to the equipment life cycle in a single software.

The core idea of predictive maintenance is to predict when equipment failure might occur based on condition-monitoring data.

The implementation of the process guarantees the plant’s reliable and efficient performance by ensuring that equipment do not break down when you need it most.

Being an early adopter of the next gen maintenance management platform Mobility Work, Anthony Leparoux kindly agreed to talk about our solution.

Mobility Work streamlines the maintenance of all relevant railway equipment. The Next Gen Maintenance Management Platform eases the communication between all involved facilities and improves the entire maintenance cycle.

Our Next Gen CMMS offers customers geolocation of their equipment and spare parts. It streamlines, centralizes and manages asset tracking to optimize maintenance performance.

Preventive maintenance objective is to repair or replace of a piece of equipment before its expected failure point defined by the manufacturer or by data analysis.

The mobile app of Mobility Work streamlines document management and helps users to find all requested information immediately by scanning the RFID.

Mobility Work flexible CMMS enormously supports and eases the integration of IoT at a facility. Sensor-collected data can rapidly be integrated and analyzed.

Mobility Work allows New contruction teams to assign companies per project, control their maintenance planning and above all calculate the amount of needed intervention hours.

CMMS and ERP: Most professionals know that integrating them in one system results in enormous benefits. But how exactly to successfully connect your new CMMS to your running ERP?

Migrating the right data in the right way is of critical importance for the proper functioning of a CMMS. But what data should you migrate and how much will it cost?

Combining predictive maintenance and CMMS in one seamless system helps you anticipate when your equipment would start breaking down and boost the effectiveness of your maintenance.

Choosing the right equipment maintenance approach depends a lot on your budget and the size of your business.

Identifying the criticality of assets, implementing a reliable CMMS and applying some preventive maintenance techniques are the three basic steps that you can undertake to improve your spare parts management process.

Fast and easy access to millions of spare parts available online on official catalogues, Amazon, eBay through your CMMS Mobility Work. We will soon launch an online purchase option.

Every experienced maintenance professional has an opinion regarding the meaning of terms and definitions. The maintenance world is very far from having a universal agreement.

Michel Huet, SPIE Site Manager: Mobility Work is the most timesaving CMMS I have ever used. SPIE is internationally recognized for its high standards and extensive knowledge.

Startups have been booming for the past few years, which increasingly caught the attention of SMBs and international groups from different sectors. There are two goals at stake here.

Integrating your spare parts inventory into Mobility Work CMMS will help you easier carry out the Japanese-based “5S” methodology for lean manufacturing.

Aurélien Deutsch, Maintenance Manager at Setforge Near Net: “This is the easiest and most efficient CMMS I have ever used”. SNNis a subsidiary of Farinia Group.

David Deschamps, Maintenance Manager at Setforge BDI: “Mobility Work Enables the Most Efficient Data Management”. Setforge BDI is a subsidiary of Farinia Group.

Compared to preventive maintenance which is planned, predictive maintenance predicts a potential failure before it occurs by monitoring the machine during normal operating condition.

It is not always an easy task for a maintenance service to make the right decision. Check Mobility Work most precious tips for optimized maintenance routine.

Following error, also called axis-positioning error appears occasionally on CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) software as Num, Ge Fanuc, Heidenhain.

If your maintenance service has been running without CMMS for years and you do not know how to improve it, then why not analyzing the daily activities of many maintenance services which run without any CMMS.

The analytics tool of the CMMS Mobility Work allows the manager to take the right decisions regarding the maintenance tasks to carry out on each equipment.

You have to invest in a new piece of equipment, but how to take the right decision knowing that certain investments can reach up to several million euros?

Lubrication is a process which aims at reducing friction between two moving pieces by injecting a fluid or grease to separate them. Lubrication has many advantages.

Maintenance aims at the following objectives: maximum equipment availability, costs and risks reduction. Its targets spans volume production increase, expenses reduction and profitability.

A better knowledge of the different maintenance levels will enable you to manage better your interventions on your industrial equipment.

There are many TOYOTA forklifts within the Mobiliy Work community. The ones which require most maintenance are 45-027FD45, TYS 35, 45-427FD40, 528FDJF35 and 7FBEF18.

Preventive maintenance is carried out according to extrapolated forecasts resulting from the evaluation of significant equipment degradation parameters.

Improve maintenance costs, optimize your schedules, and reduce non-value added activities. A maintenance model to improve operational efficiency is of critical importance.

ABB robots main issues. Thanks to the Mobility-Work community, 12000 hours of maintenance work has been performed on this type of equipment.

Preventive maintenance is planned technical maintenance, performed regularly at predetermined intervals. The main goal of preventive maintenance is to minimize the likelihood of a machine’s failing.

Autonomous maintenance is a crucial component of the TPM.