Certification and maintenance audit thanks to your CMMS

Certification, maintenance audit in your CMMS software

Internal audits and certifications are essential, as they ensure the quality of the goods produced. However, this is a particularly stressful step for auditees, often considered as a necessary evil. The listener, on the other hand, generally suffers from a fairly negative image and must often struggle to unravel what is true from what is false.

However, many well-informed managers quickly understood that the sole purpose of internal audits was to enable them to improve, and that the results obtained were essential to ensure the consistency and homogeneity of processes within their factory. Businesses, looking for the most efficient tools to collect, synthesize, analyze and provide the best possible data, increasingly tend to rely on their CMMS to carry out their audits.

One Next generation CMMS such as Mobility Work makes it possible both to facilitate your internal audits and to quickly obtain the most relevant data.

How do you prepare for ISO certification?

Preparing for an audit is largely based on your skills. The auditee must be able to justify all the interventions that took place in the factory, the condition of the equipment, etc. A 4.0 CMMS helps you obtain this information by grouping all the relevant data and provides an overview of the main information relating to the state of your assets and performance parameters.

It is also essential to create the best possible team, made up of employees who are familiar with audit techniques and the functionalities allowed by maintenance management software. The frequency of application of the process must be defined according to the performance parameters. Scheduling audits and sharing this schedule with the team allows them to be notified when all planned improvement strategies and quality checks have been completed.

Mobility Work accompanies you throughout this process and helps you succeed in your audits. It is an essential tool that ensures that the company's production, service and documentation processes comply with standards and quality assurance.

5 tips for successful internal maintenance audits and ISO certifications

Add your documents

Add all your documents to the Mobility Work platform: photos, safety procedures and intervention plans in order to verify that the procedures have been implemented correctly.

Generate data

Mobility Work CMMS 4.0 makes it possible to collect data from sensors mounted on equipment and to combine them with pre-existing data (spare parts inventories, latest information) in order to generate powerful reports. In the current competitive context, the implementation of a predictive maintenance strategy is essential to the success of a company.

The Mobility Work maintenance management tool puts communication at the heart of factories

Be transparent

Task histories, completed and ongoing interventions and spare parts related to equipment can easily be monitored in Mobility Work. It is thus possible to accurately analyze the history of failures and improvement strategies. In addition, the archives make it possible to know who carried out the intervention, to know its duration and to access related documents. This allows you to provide auditors with a history of your maintenance strategy and to justify the factory's compliance with ISO standards.

Guarantee quality and safety procedures

Next-generation maintenance software makes it possible to document your interventions and to provide a set of data to verify that all inspections and safety tests have been carried out on time and that all equipment that has failed has been repaired or replaced.

Track incidents and employee health

Your next-generation maintenance application supports you in implementing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, and ensures compliance with regulations in terms of safety and quality.

Is it possible to obtain an ISO certification without a CMMS?

This is indeed possible, but the process will be much longer: document collection, coordination, paperwork... This is precisely the advantage of industrial maintenance management software: no need to manage documentation, it is accessible at any time and from any electronic device.

Succeed in a maintenance audit: examples from FMGC and Bericap

Two French companies recently used Mobility Work next-generation CMMS to obtain their ISO certification.

FMGC is the European leader in the manufacture of grey cast iron counterweights, but it also produces innovative ballasting solutions for the MRE (Marine Renewable Energies) sector. Over the past three years, Mobility Work has significantly improved company maintenance procedures and foundry performance cycles. The table below is extracted from the audit result and highlights the most relevant equipment and procedures. All data and evidence were extracted from Mobility Work.

Bericap is one of the main players in the manufacture of corks. The maintenance managers at Bericap France were quickly convinced by the ease of use and efficiency of Mobility Work, in place since July 2017. Last January, Hubert Marion, manager of machine maintenance services, infrastructures, infrastructures, molds and the machining of parts inherent to molds at Bericap France, shared his experience with us on the Mobility Work blog:

“We successfully passed the ISO 9001 version 2015 audit, during which Mobility Work particularly stood out”

Read the “Mobility Work at Bericap” testimonial

Despite their difficulty in applying them (changes in standards, regulatory requirements, proof of compliance, etc.), audits play an important role and are witnesses to a balanced corporate culture.

It is necessary to be fully aware of the real benefits associated with conducting an internal audit as part of a continuous improvement process within a production plant. Mobility Work's next-generation CMMS helps maintenance professionals to monitor their standards, while streamlining maintenance processes in order to successfully complete compliance audits.