The advantages of CMMS in the cosmetics industry

Like all types of industries, the cosmetics sector is facing challenges that are unique to him. Because of its place in the global economy (more than 200 billion euros in turnover in 2018), all production must be based on clearly established processes and a industrial maintenance perfectly optimized machines, in particular thanks to the installation of a CMMS software (computer-assisted maintenance management).

Find out how L'Oréal improved its maintenance thanks to Mobility Work

The cosmetics industry has established itself as a major part of the French economy since it carried out, according to data compiled by FEBEA (Federation of Beauty Companies), a turnover of 10 billion euros in 2017. France even occupies a preponderant place in this market with global exports of its production which, in the same year, amounted to 13.6 billion euros. In the end, it is the European Union that occupies the largest global cosmetics market place (77 billion euros).

In this context, what challenges does this industry face? What problems do factories face in order to ensure smooth production? How to meet the needs of maintenance professionals who work directly in the field? In this context, how does the deployment of CMMS software guarantee sustainable production and simplify the work of industrial maintenance teams?

A major imperative: respect for quality

The factories in the cosmetics sector know it: they can in no way ignore compliance with the quality standards that apply. The various teams must respect the procedures established on their production site, which are often very numerous: the entire industry applies strict rules to meet specifications that are often very demanding.

The same is true for health issues, which are at the heart of the concerns of companies in the sector: it is of crucial importance to guarantee the health of consumers in order to offer them a quality and reliable product. These issues are at the heart of the concerns of factories in the sector, which must, for example, acquire the ISO 22716 standard, which describes good manufacturing practices and covers the issues of “the production, control, packaging, storage and transport of cosmetics.”

Quality, health and safety standards are therefore recorded in technical documents, which are real reference materials for manufacturing sites. It is important that each link in the production chain can have access to it, which is why it is important to equip teams with a CMMS. This software is a way to recentralize team communication in environments where information loss is as frequent as it is serious. The new generation maintenance management platform Mobility Work is a mobile and web application available in SaaS that functions as a real social network for industrial maintenance: for example, the various users access a news feed where all the activities of the factory are compiled, in real time, in real time.

Mobility Work allows operators and technicians to be autonomous: creation of tasks, maintenance plans, notifications for each new activity...

This platform is also a way for users to make available all the technical documents on which their daily work is based. In one click, everyone therefore accesses the information they are looking for. The same is true for documentation and other materials related to machines: users create equipment sheets directly in their CMMS and can add all the files (video, document, photo, sound, etc.) that they deem necessary. The objective is to further centralize information to guarantee a fluid exchange between the various teams (day, night, production, etc.).

A CMMS to optimize production

Given the production requirements that companies in the cosmetics sector are required to meet, finding the right tool to streamline industrial maintenance and implement the right strategy is essential.

Communicating for successful industrial maintenance

Given the dizzying amounts generated by the cosmetics industry, factories in this sector have huge production volumes to manage. It is critical that field teams be able to track orders and stock levels in order to have a peripheral vision of production. The flow is constant and monitoring must be regular: team managers must therefore be in a position to have an eye on this data, to anticipate the slightest difficulty.

In this context, it goes without saying that all equipment must be versatile and, above all, in perfect condition, so as not to risk slowing down the production chain and causing significant losses, both financial and material. At the same time, industrial maintenance teams have a central role in this environment, since they must be reactive and be able to locate breakdowns and malfunctions that occur on the machines very quickly. In addition, the tasks to be carried out by the teams are often very specific and highly technical: it is essential to guarantee a smooth communication.

Therefore, the question of deploying or not deploying an efficient, intuitive and easy-to-use CMMS software no longer arises. The tool is essential to guarantee rapid and effective industrial maintenance interventions. In Mobility Work CMMS, technicians and managers centralize information: in addition to the news feed mentioned above, users create tasks and activities and assign members of their network to them, who receive a notification informing them.

Mobility Work is built around a community of users, who exchange and follow the news from their factory thanks to the news feed

Follow your maintenance indicators in your CMMS

As the tool is available in a mobile version, teams move around the factory with their phones and therefore have all the necessary information at their fingertips, which facilitates their interventions. For example, they just need to scan the QR code or the machine's NFC chip to visualize the information relating to this equipment in the application.

With Mobility Work, you can install sensors on your machines and find all the data concerning them directly in the tool. These sensors are of great importance since they will allow field teams to be informed of malfunctions: abnormally high engine temperature, suspicious vibrations, oil level that is too low, etc.

Mobility Work is equipped with an analytical tool accessible to all its users, which allows them to find, in the form of graphs, all their maintenance data. There, visualize the machines that required the most hours of intervention, the work most often carried out... Thus, take stock of your interventions and identify the problems inherent to your production chain in order to set up a predictive maintenance strategy (or forecast).

How does Mobility Work's analytical tool come about?

Manage your service providers thanks to its CMMS

If you work in the cosmetics industry, you are aware that companies most often use service providers as the links in the production chain are numerous and the different types of interventions required are numerous.

Again, Mobility Work allows you to smooth and optimized management of the interventions of your service providers : they can in fact create a free profile and access the activity of your factory. For example, the team manager can create detailed tasks and assign his service provider, so that the service provider is informed, in the software and by email, and can intervene quickly. This platform is also an opportunity to make your specifications and all your technical documentation available to these service providers, who will be able to access them in a few clicks. Finally, CMMS allows the geolocation of all equipment: external actors can therefore easily find their way around the factory and intervene in due time.

New-generation CMMS software is now adapting to the needs of many sectors, and in particular to those, which are so specific, of the cosmetics industry. Industrial maintenance requirements are multiple, so it is essential to centralize information and give field teams access to all the data they need. The implementation of a solution such as Mobility Work, as well as regular monitoring of maintenance indicators, will allow for the optimization of processes and a sustained production pace, in response to the growing demand in the cosmetics sector.