Mobile CMMS: 4 advantages of a mobile maintenance solution

Improve the management of your maintenance thanks to a mobile solution

Mobility and Mobile CMMS are subjects that concern more and more companies, and which are part of a process of digitizing the factory: it is the industry of the future, or Industry 4.0. Tablets, smartphones and touch screens are among the main electronic devices generally used in order to carry out this transformation, the promise being to offer teams a more practical and efficient alternative to the traditional PCs present on production lines.

The objective is to reproduce behaviors that are well established in our personal lives, and thus to be closer to all the tools we use daily in order to improve the entry and access to information for company employees. This subject concerns all company departments, and particularly the maintenance department, which is often required to travel to the factory to carry out operations.

This is how new maintenance management software has appeared, with a user-friendly interface, available from a mobile or tablet. Equipped with quantifiable advantages, these software programs will certainly make you want to switch your maintenance department to 4.0. Here are the top four benefits of a mobile maintenance solution.

All the news relating to current interventions are available from the news feed of the Mobility Work mobile application, available on iOS and Android

1. Enter your data in real time

We know the daily life of maintenance services well: successive days of troubleshooting, and 1 hour of additional data entry at the end of the shift on an Excel document or on paper in the worst case scenario. This creates several problems for the maintenance department or for an external person wishing to access information: initially, losses in information quality are inevitable due to the number of hours elapsed between the end of the intervention and the writing of the report in the maintenance management software on a computer.

Then, as information is not accessible in real time, it loses its value. A workshop manager sees on his news feed that a repair is in progress on boiler 12; his decision-making may be different if he learns this information the next day during the production meeting.

La entering information in real time is therefore a key factor in the decision-making process, and must become the heart of your new mobile CMMS application; all the tools that promote this input therefore represent advantages with quantifiable benefits.

2. Add media files

A photo or video to illustrate a problem during a maintenance intervention will be much more explicit than a text. This is one of the advantages of mobile maintenance management applications: in a few seconds, any maintenance technician can add multimedia files (the sound of an engine, a photo of a mechanical problem on a bearing, the video of a malfunction, etc.). This will bring your intervention reports to life and allow you to store all of these elements in a single application.

This is why we added a search function in Mobility Work mobile CMMS, allowing any user to find a multimedia element associated with a maintenance intervention.

3. Get direct access to information

You are facing a problem that one of your colleagues solved 6 months ago, but you no longer remember the manipulation that was carried out. However, you remember that it was probably entered on the maintenance department's computer, which is a 10-minute walk from where you are. Imagine: making the trip, looking for information and going back to troubleshoot your machine... what a waste of time and what a cost in terms of production stoppages!

While a mobile maintenance solution allows you to perform this operation in a few seconds: all you have to do is scan the QR code on your machine, type in the few keywords associated with your failure and find the solution to your problem. Maintenance management software is then no longer seen as a constraint by technicians, but rather as a good way to facilitate their troubleshooting by accessing their history in a few seconds.

The same goes for access to all technical documentation. In a few seconds, from your mobile CMMS application available on your smartphone, you can access the electrical, mechanical, etc. plans of your equipment.

4. Simplified typing thanks to technology

Constantly improving, voice control for input makes it possible to improve the quality of the information presented on technician reports. In Mobility Work, you can dictate your feedback and integrate it into your maintenance operation.

The integration of technologies such as the QR Code or the NFC chip will help you quickly access certain specific elements, including maintenance ranges, documentation, information on a spare part, etc. All this promotes access to information and makes mobile CMMS a fun tool for all technicians.

Finally, the arrival of sensors connected to your maintenance management software will also allow maintenance technicians to visualize machine information in real time from their mobile. It can then be alerted in the event of a temperature variation or a change in the position of a sensor.

Follow the news from your factory or industrial group from the Mobility Work mobile CMMS news feed: make your decisions in real time!

The Mobility Work maintenance management platform is an indispensable tool for a quick, easy, effective and sustainable transition to Industry 4.0, thanks to the numerous functionalities designed to improve the daily lives of maintenance technicians.

Are you interested in maintenance management and want to know more in order to increase your productivity and save money?