Blog of maintenance management and CMMS software

Industrial ecology will play a considerable role in tomorrow's world. Thanks to the new CMMS, plants can get ready for it today.

How do we benefit from industry 4.0? This article will enlighten you further by telling you 9 things you should know about 4.0 and maintenance in 2020.

Today, the 21 CFR Part 11 standard applies to more and more sectors. It is therefore essential to choose a CMMS that is adapted, mobile and agile.

The maintenance of medical equipment during the Covid-19 epidemic requires high-performance, mobile and easy-to-use CMMS tools.

Keeping your employees and CMMS at peak efficiency without a fail is nigh impossible over long periods of time if you don't consider change implementation strategies.

Thanks to a mobile CMMS, restart your plant's activity more quickly after the technical shutdown imposed by the lockdown.

Managing maintenance teams in times of health crisis is a real challenge. Thanks to mobile CMMS, this task becomes much simpler.

Preventative maintenance is important because it increases the life of the scales and improves productivity. Other advantages include minimal downtime.

MonaBike has chosen a next-gen mobile CMMS, described as an "intuitive, efficient and universally adopted" platform.

The current situation of economic slowdown can be taken advantage of to prepare effective maintenance plans for the resumption: here are our tips for you!

The constraints imposed by the health crisis can be partly absorbed by the plants by developing autonomous maintenance using a next-gen CMMS software.

Automation isn’t happening to your workforce; it’s something your employees can grow with, something that can make their lives better, enhance their skills, broaden their abilities, and give them more time for other tasks.

In times of health crisis, CMMS systems are more useful than ever to manage equipment maintenance and keep track of the (slow) activity. Discover why!

Choosing to combine industrial maintenance and CSR makes sense for industries, which can rely on their CMMS to achieve their goal.

Find a guide to help you adopt the next-gen mobile CMMS that is Mobility Work in just a few days thanks to our resources.

Is the Excel spreadsheet enough to manage your maintenance or should you rather deploy a specific CMMS solution? Find out here.

How to choose a great CMMS solution that is adapted to the maintenance challenges that healthcare facilities are facing today?

Olivier Vasseur (Fédération Forge Fonderie) tells us more about his experience in foundries, next gen CMMS and digitization!

Managing the maintenance of a vehicle fleet is now much easier with a next-gen maintenance management platform like Mobility Work CMMS.

The company Europhane (smart and connected lighting solutions) has deployed a SaaS CMMS. The maintenance manager tells us what has changed since then.

Discover how next-gen CMMS will help the cosmetics sector face maintenance challenges while ensuring consistent quality and reliability.

After years of boosting from tech companies and enthusiasts, Big Data has thoroughly worked its way into the way technology is developed and implemented.

The spare parts' storage costs can be reduced thanks to a next-gen CMMS solution, especially if it's mobile. Discover how.

Public infrastructures maintenance is a complex subject with multiple issues at stake. Next-gen CMMS can help solve them!

When it comes to maintenance, the use of an innovative CMMS solution makes it easy to comply with the 21 CFR Part 11 standard.

Deploying a CMMS is crucial if you want to have visibility on your stocks. How to optimize stock management and which software should you choose?

CMMS solutions are strategic tools for the pharmaceutical industry, more than for any other field. Choosing the right one is therefore crucial.

After the digital transformation, it is time for CEOs to take the lead on industry 4.0. What tools are available to achieve it?

Why does implementing a CMMS solution have a positive impact on quality management and what are the exact benefits for it?

Is it possible to find a reliable free CMMS software? How to choose a solution and be sure that I am making the right choice?

Far from being alarmist, machine learning has its place in the industrial world and is already being introduced in factories, thanks in particular to CMMS.

Mobile CMMS is a major advance for industrial maintenance and for maintenance professionals, as it allows to exceed the limits of all other solutions.

Here’s how CMMS solutions can help you automate maintenance tasks, streamline data and optimize your risk management strategy.

The IoT has been a hot topic in recent years. One thing is certain: it revolutionizes industrial maintenance. Find out why!

Implementing autonomous maintenance has many advantages and can be done easily if you follow these few steps. It is now facilitated by next-gen CMMS.

CMMS software helps to rationalize maintenance in the textile industry. The Mobility Work platform is revolutionizing it.

Increasingly present in cities, the Internet of Things and smart street furniture represent new opportunities for the maintenance field.

Edge computing and cloud computing are becoming increasingly important infrastructures in industry 4.0. They can help improve current workflows, provided that you know when to use one or the other.

Maintenance influences almost all aspects of farm work, by adopting new farming maintenance routines inspired by the Industry 4.0, farmers can improve the reliability of their machinery.

Inventory management is the unsung hero of maintenance. And yet, it will bring about operational performance and economies of scale.

September is the perfect time of the year for assessment: once the technical shutdown is over, the time has come to deploy a CMMS to start this new year serenely.

As Industry 4.0 transforms consumption habits, companies must reinvent their means of production. However, its potential can only be fully realized if each actor in the value chain accepts the necessary transformation that it implies. 

While CMMS solutions are traditionally used in industrial environments, it’s in medical organizations’ best interest to adopt this type of software as well.

Industry 4.0 is a holistic automation for manufacturing to boost industry through the integration of various aspects of commerce and production.

Next-gen CMMS software helps railway companies manage their maintenance and comply with industry standards in the face of extreme temperatures and climate change.

How can you ensure that your technical shutdown will go smoothly and how will your CMMS software provide you with concrete solutions?

As a result of Industry 4.0, consumer behaviors are rapidly evolving and organizations are investing in the modernization of their maintenance strategies. Collaborative maintenance promotes a holistic view of the production process by driving cooperation along the supply chain.

How to implement industrial ecology (IE), which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as energy and natural resources consumption?

How does CMMS software adapt to a company's changing needs? Companies are even now looking for new innovative and comprehensive solutions to satisfy their present and future needs.

How is a CMMS crucial in the cosmetics industry? What needs does it meet? Matthieu Droulers, Manager at L'Oréal, agreed to answer our questions.

What is the role of lubrication in industrial maintenance? What are the benefits to the company? FUCHS and Mobility Work answer your questions.

What role does Procurement play in the industry? From resource management to supplier relationship, all you need to know about a strategic function.

Sharing information between each link in the supply chain (SC) is a major lever for performance and competitiveness. How can companies benefit from data sharing?

How does implementing CMMS software within the cosmetics industry guarantee sustainable production and simplify the work of industrial maintenance teams?

Given the rapid evolution in production needs, finding the right vendor at the right moment is a key strategic issue. How can you improve your sourcing and supply chain management?

Predictive maintenance is an industrial technique that consists in using different tools and techniques to monitor the state of a plant's machines.

Pierre-Etienne Lebeau, method and expertise referent within Engie (French electric utility group), talks about his experience with the CMMS Mobility Work.

Traditionally, the procurement function’s main role is to ensure that all raw materials required for the production are available. As the structure of the supply chain evolves, buyers take on new responsibilities. How should companies plan their procurement strategy?

Faced with increasingly tighter deadlines and higher quality standards, factories are turning towards 4.0 CMMS solutions to stay competitive.

Why should you invest in Supply Chain Management? SCM helps organizations get the best of their supply chain and protect themselves from markets hazards.

If they want to assert their presence on the market and stand our from their competitors, industries must deploy a CMMS. But what is it about?

Caught between seeking better performance and lower costs, how can the procurement function support the production chain's workflow and activities?

Far from the image of the cost-killer, the Procurement function reveals its importance in the strategy of continuous improvement and innovation for companies of the industrial sector.

Testimony at Peugeot Japy Technologies: "Since the implementation of the CMMS, I undoubtedly noticed that my everyday life at work has been enhanced!"

Maintenance management: what are the secrets of companies which, thanks to WCM (World Class Manufacturing), became amazingly successful?

Risk management is a real challenge for supply chain actors. How to ensure the smooth running of its activities? Here are some tips for developing a risk management strategy that is tailored to your needs.

Innovation, development and customer relations: Loïc Bébin, Grease Product Manager at FUCHS Lubrifiant France, shares his experience with the platform Mobility Work Hub.

You may be familiar with the Purchasing function, but have you ever heard of SRM? This new approach to supplier relationship management has overturned industry codes for several years. How to understand this new trend and integrate it into your company's strategy?

Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is an industrial maintenance technique based on the analysis of system functions, consequences and failure modes of process assemblies or components.

Digital twins are the exact replica - in digital format - of a process, designed with a modeling software and can be use for predictive maintenance.

Barthélémy Longueville and Manuel Pinto gave us a two-part interview on the deployment of Mobility Work next-gen CMMS at Vallourec, the world leader in premium tubular solutions.

Industrial maintenance offers a wide range of career perspectives. The sector is looking for motivated people willing to invest and integrate into teams, and who can then easily evolve within the plant.

Predictive maintenance : impossible to ignore the current possibility of purchasing sensors at favourable prices and connecting them to your machines.

Airports require tailor-made maintenance management due to their complexity, which can be achieved with a mobile CMMS software.

Preventive maintenance involves the maintenance of organizational assets in order to maintain them in optimal operating conditions.

In this new episode dedicated to maintenance careers, you can read the testimony of Didier, maintenance mechanic. He looks back at the developments in the automotive industry over the course of his thirty-year career.

Predictive maintenance has now been imposed on many industries as a key tool, it's essential for the efficiency of lean manufacturing.

Supply Chain 4.0: The Progressive Transition of the Industry of the Future, or Industry 4.0, Delivers the Promise of a More Flexible Organization

Predictive maintenance : Maximize equipment utilization, operational cost and teams’ productivity through machine data thanks to industry 4.0

For this second episode of our serie "Job Fact Sheet", we talked with Eric François about his experience as a maintenance manager, and the specificities of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines and the challenges they pose.

Julien Audrain, who works as a Maintenance methods technician in Brittany, tells us about his background and the advantages of apprenticeship to enter the employment market.

Designing and later on implementing a good preventive maintenance program is one of the most challenging areas of maintenance management.

TPM strives to achieve a continuous production cycle without any breakdowns by maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems.

Deployment of Mobile CMMS at Peugeot Japy Technologies For this episode, we interviewed David Roth, who works a night shift as a maintenance technician.

5 undeniable benefits of a smart CMMS Software for maintenance professionals that you can use to easily convince your team

Mobility Work is putting industrial careers into the spotlights! Mehdi Tamim talks about the link between industrial design and maintenance, and remember the early beginnings of Mobility Work next-gen CMMS.

Mr Delplanque, maintenance manager at the Domaine de Luchin, training center of the LOSC Lille football team, works with our facility management software.

As new technological challenges arise, organizations find innovative solutions in Industry 4.0. Between Big Data and artificial intelligence, what is the future of industrial maintenance?

Stock management is a component of a successful business as it ensures continuous improvement in productivit with the right inventory software.

How to manage, plan and easily track systematic preventive maintenance interventions for your maintenance department in your cmms software?

The creation of equipment/spare part still remains a difficult step in the setup and deployment of a Next-Gen CMMS software.

Why choose a flexible CMMS 4.0 solution that adapts to your company's ever-changing needs ?

Types of maintenance : Corrective, preventive, condition-based, predictive... What type of maintenance should a company implement in order to achieve its goals and how can a CMMS be useful?

To what extent does helping equipment or consumables manufacturers enhance their competitiveness undeniably benefits a whole industry, and specifically companies’ purchasing departments?

Review some good first-level maintenance practices to be implemented and precautions to be taken into account when working on hydraulic equipment.

Here are several methods that when combined with your CMMS data can help you better manage automated system troubleshooting.

CMMS & History : The following 6 levels of industrial maintenance maturity will help you evaluate the state of your daily maintenance management.

Jean-Luc Bruno, who has been working with a CMMS for more than 40 years, agreed to tell us more about the maintenance needs in the transport industry.

Review the possibilities offered by a CMMS 4.0 and the consequences of its implementation on the production management of your company.

CMMS Deployment: Implementing and harmonizing multi-site maintenance practices and tools is a significant challenge.

A mobile CMMS makes it possible to obtain more precision and to gain speed in the context of production and to improve communication.

Fabien Thomas, teaching at École Centrale Nantes, a leading French Engineering school, explains why Mobility Work helps developing a culture for change as well as new perspectives.

Before deploying condition-monitoring techniques and daring to go further, every organization should ensure the establishment of preventive maintenance

Lean Manufacturing: One of the main goals of a planned maintenance routine and the TPM is to completely reduce the 7 wastes.

Mr Debert is using Mobile CMMS on a daily basis. User-friendliness, time savings and reactivity: according to him, the 4.0 software delivers its promises.

Yakub Pehlivan, in charge of the deployment of CMMS Mobility Work, talks about the integration of the tool within the teams.

Monitoring maintenance KPIs in your CMMS ( maintenance management software ) can help you identify and prioritize your business objectives

Conventional CMMS software don't address companies' needs anymore. If they want to enter the 4.0 industry, these companies have to opt for a 4.0 CMMS

Mitigating the risks of electrical accidents starts with the proper maintenance of all electrical equipment. A next-gen CMMS is what you need to guide you through this process.

Deployment of the CMMS application within the PJT plant. Learn how to implement the software and discover some of our advice to be prepared.

Facility management: improve the security of your factory standardize all processes and procedures within your CMMS software.

Predictive and prescriptive industrial maintenance routines might be the right answer to the sector’s challenges

Prescriptive maintenance is the expected final development of predictive maintenance routines and for now is considered for the last milestone in the evolution of maintenance.

Good management of industrial maintenance is an important performance factor and a source of quick profits within the company.

According to the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, only 30% of the industrial sector’s positions are held by women. Nonetheless, during the past few years, they progressively imposed themselves in certain specific areas, including industrial maintenance.

Marc-Antoine Talva, Mobility Work’s CEO, tells us about his education as a maintenance methods engineer at Centrale Nantes, and in particular about his apprenticeship.

Franck Maillot, Engineering and Maintenance Manager at Danone Waters, explains how they connected SAP PM and their Mobile CMMS software.

Facility management is a milestone in the successful functioning of any organization. Thus it is important to know its role and that its proper establishment has a great impact on business.

Mr Boudes, a maintenance manager at Carambar & Co., agreed to talk about key steps, challenges and benefits associated with the implementation of CMMS

The main goal of industrial maintenance is to keep all plant’s assets in good condition and this at the lowest possible cost. The production quality of an organization depends on the availability and reliability of the equipment.

Joaquín Guimerá is a maintenance and engineering manager at Lipotec. He agreed to share with us his experience of his remote deployment of Mobility Work CMMS.

A successful tool management is a major issue for every plant. Choosing a next-gen CMMS enhances the entire production line.

More and more simple, affordable and user-friendly business applications in SaaS mode are emerging, which will allow you to easily connect your ERP to other more flexible, customer-oriented tools.

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.

Service prodivders - 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 maintenance 4.0 solutions, Spartacus3D created LETo, a metal additive manufactured robotic clamp presenting technical characteristics.

CMMS: Marc-Antoine tells us more about his experience in the industrial maintenance world and explains how the idea to create Mobility Work came out.

TPM method, PDCA, Ishikawa diagram, Five WS, Kaizen, Pareto, ABC anlysis, etc. How to best choose the most relevant maintenance tools for your company?

As an early user of Mobility Work CMMS, an asset management software, 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, maintenance engineer, tells us more about his educational background and his perception of industrial maintenance.

Knowing how critical every piece of equipment is at your plant will help you identify potential bottlenecks. These are highly critical assets.

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?

Mobile CMMS Software gives the possibility to its customers to innovate and to put information at the heart of theira company.

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

CMMS software helps maintenance professionals to track their standards in order to pass an audit or certification.

Machining maintenance manager : In this first episode, Anthony Blanchard, CMMS supervisor 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.

Industrial maintenance forum : Mobility Work is the first maintenance social network, and to offer more than a simple CMMS software.

The objective of Pareto is to classify the maintenance interventions according to their number, then to rank them all in your CMMS software.

EAM Software : Mobility Work is a cloud-based SaaS CMMS . Its implemention 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 our CMMS software and is now a convinced client.

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?

Discover Mobility Work Hub, the 1st industrial solution dedicated to suppliers, manufacturers and service providers!

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 CMMS.

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?

Mobile CMMS 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.

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

Implementing the right CMMS would significantly improve and radically change the maintenance management at your facility towards a cheaper, more effective and more efficient approach.

Railway Maintenance : Realizing the power of digitization, more and more railway companies tend to turn to modern technologies ( CMMS Software )

CMMS Software offers customers geolocation of their equipment and spare parts. It 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.

Mobile CMMS Software 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.

CMMS Software 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.

Predictive Maintenance VS Preventive Maintenance: Choosing the right equipment maintenance approach depends a lot on your budget and the size of your business.

Spare parts : Identifying the criticality of assets and applying some preventive maintenance techniques are the three basic steps that you can undertake to improve your maintenance

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.

CMMS have been booming for the past few years, which increasingly caught the attention of SMBs and international groups from different sectors.

Integrating your spare parts inventory into your CMMS software 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”. SNN is a subsidiary of Farinia Group.

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

Compared to predictive 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 technical 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.

CMMS: It is very difficult for a company which does not own any asset management software to take the right decisions and to improve its maintenance management.

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 and greasing 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.

Industrial maintenance aims at the following objectives: maximum equipment availability and risks reduction. Its targets spans volume production increase.

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.

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

Developing a technical maintenance model to improve operational efficiency is of critical importance for every successful plant or manufacturing unit.

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 or preventative maintenance (PM) is planned technical maintenance, performed regularly at predetermined intervals.

Autonomous maintenance (AM) is performed by the operators and not by dedicated maintenance technicians. It is a crucial component of the TPM.