CMMS, a central tool for businesses

Maintenance has long been seen as an ancillary task with no direct link to the core business of an industrial company. It was thus managed in a way that was disconnected from the production services themselves. But with the new requirements of competitiveness and the appearance of the GMAO, it has gradually become a central tool for all companies in the industrial sector.

Today, when factories must respect ever tighter production deadlines but also increasingly stringent standards, the use of software for GMAO modern and efficient is becoming more and more essential for most of them. It is to this need that a solution of GMAO 4.0 such as Mobility Work.

CMMS, an essential tool for businesses

La Computer-Aided Maintenance Management is now a central tool for all businesses that want to be competitive.

How does CMMS work?

One CMMS software is a tool specially designed to help businesses manage and streamline maintenance. This type of solution appeared with the development of IT and has gradually replaced maintenance management “by hand” (by simple written notes) or using the Excel spreadsheet, even if many small businesses and SMEs still use it.

Les CMMS software make it possible to record all intervention reports, to plan maintenance tasks, and even to develop and analyze a maintenance strategy. They generally have the following functions:

• equipment management (inventory, location, etc.);
• inventory management;
• management of the safety of installations before maintenance interventions;
• management of spare parts or services purchases and the purchasing cycle;
• management of maintenance personnel and planning;
• cost management (workforce, purchases, rental...) );
• key performance indicators.

The advantages of CMMS

The first advantage of a solution specifically dedicated to GMAO is to allow constant traceability of all maintenance activities. Information losses, which are too numerous with the use of a spreadsheet, are thus avoided, and communication between operators and between teams is more fluid.

In addition, a CMMS software makes it possible to develop a genuine maintenance strategy. For the company, this leads to:

• better cost control : planning operations makes maintenance more efficient and therefore extends the life of equipment, and makes it possible to anticipate and forecast future expenses;
• better productivity: monitoring and planning interventions in a centralized and organized manner reduces periods of machine inactivity;
• better traceability: by facilitating intervention reports and their consultation, a CMMS software offers more transparency on their progress and better coordination of the actions of the various stakeholders.

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

Obstacles to the adoption of CMMS software

Despite its numerous advantages, the GMAO has still not become widespread to all businesses, and is still unknown to SMEs and VSEs in particular. How do you explain that?

The main reason is undoubtedly to look for the characteristics of historical software of GMAO. These are in fact heavy computer programs that are difficult to use. They also involve a significant investment, both in terms of their purchase cost and in the employee training they involve. This major investment discourages many companies, especially since it involves a certain amount of risk in the event of poor choices, for example if the software is unsuited to needs.

That is why the appearance of CMMS solutions of new generation in recent years has represented a major turning point in maintenance management, especially for small and medium-sized businesses.

How do I choose the right CMMS tool?

Get a CMMS solution efficient, scalable and adapted to the needs of your factory is crucial for the competitiveness of your company.

The challenges of choice

The choice and adoption of a CMMS tool are crucial moments, as they have important consequences for the business. Indeed, an error in the choice of asset management software, a poorly prepared deployment or poorly defined goals can cause the project to optimize plant maintenance and gain productivity to fail.

It is therefore important, before choosing a CMMS software, to take the time to understand their functionalities, to compare all existing solutions and to assess them in light of the needs and objectives of the company.

Why choose a 4.0 CMMS solution?

Les CMMS tools New generation solutions have a large number of advantages that make them essential today for companies that want to have an economic, agile and efficient solution.

On the one hand, these software and applications are scalable, unlike tools traditional. Regularly updated, they constantly adapt to the evolution of the dynamic digital environment, and their lifespan is therefore not limited.

On the other hand, an application like Mobility Work is designed on the model of everyday applications. Therefore, it is intuitive and it is very easy for users to make it their own, where CMMS solutions traditional require many hours of training.

Moreover, the tool offered by Mobility Work is 100% mobile. This means it can be accessed from any connected device like a laptop, smartphone, or tablet. Its use is therefore greatly facilitated, operators being able, for example, to enter intervention reports at the very place where they take place, or consult the necessary documents.

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

Far from being a simple gimmick, this mobility makes GMAO much more effective and efficient: teams are more motivated and invested thanks to this intuitive tool that makes their work both simpler and more rigorous. The analysis of the maintenance strategy, based on more accurate and reliable data, thus enters a new dimension.

La GMAO has for many years been considered a central tool by large industrial companies. However, it remained difficult to access smaller structures until recently, due to the limitations of traditional computerized maintenance management solutions. The emergence of a new generation of CMMS solutions like Mobility Work puts an end to this state of affairs and allows all companies to equip themselves with an efficient and accessible tool.

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