Industrial maintenance forum and community

Industrial maintenance forum: troubleshooting and advice

The 21st century is one of globalization and the intensification of trade. As proof, we are all members of a platform, network or online community today: Facebook to share with our family circle and relationships, Twitter to share our opinion with the whole world, LinkedIn to discuss professional topics, etc.

In the era of social networks, information sharing and Industry 4.0, the industrial world is also changing. Long resistant to information exchanges and external collaboration, the industry is now forced to catch up and align itself with this new exchange model in order not to lose face in an increasingly competitive sector.

Based on this observation, at Mobility Work, we had the idea of creating the first social network/forum for industrial maintenance and thus offering more than just CMMS software.

An initial observation that is not very encouraging

Indeed, all publishers on the market today focus on creating maintenance software that is complex to deploy, expensive and difficult to use for maintenance technicians. They are generally single-site solutions, as their implementation at the scale of an industrial group is difficult. There is no shortage of examples of industrial groups proud to have deployed their 60 sites in 9 years with a classic CMMS publisher. However, at the end of this deployment, we note the almost systematic absence of exchange of information between the various sites: a real aberration, since they necessarily have similar equipment, maintenance ranges, documentation or spare parts.

Thanks to the news feed available in the Mobility Work application, follow the activity of your network in real time.

The idea of the Mobility Work application is first of all to simplify the deployment of a CMMS within an industrial company thanks to an ergonomic user interface, which does not require any training, and to the free integration of all of your data (list of your equipment, spare parts, intervention history, etc.). A factory with 20 maintenance personnel is operational on average after 2 days. After that, users have the option of connecting to other users in their industry group or to people outside of your community, such as operating an industrial maintenance forum.

The industrial maintenance community and forum: a springboard

Thanks to the emergence of all the new technologies now at our disposal, exchange, sharing and transparency are now widely acclaimed values. Although they still unfortunately encounter numerous obstacles inherent to certain sectors of activity (manufacturing secrets and confidentiality in industry, for example), we are nevertheless seeing the emergence of exchanges, as proof of this the professional groups dedicated to maintenance on LinkedIn for example (” Industrial Maintenance ”,” Maintenance Expert/Engineer/Schedule/News/Jobs ” or even” Lean Manufacturing & Kaizen ”).

The CMMS software Mobility Work uses the principle of communities or industrial maintenance forums on the internet. A failure appears on an equipment: maybe someone in your geographical area has the missing spare part? Likewise, maybe you have been using the same external company to repair your shot blaster for 5 years, when there is a company nearby capable of working on similar shot blasters but whose existence you do not know exists?

That is the objective of the Mobility Work CMMS : simplify the management of your maintenance while connecting anonymously to a maintenance community sharing the same problems as you via an industrial maintenance forum.

Refine your decision-making through information sharing

When buying equipment, it is obvious that the supplier of this machine will want to praise you for it and describe it as “the best on the market”. However, there are perhaps a hundred people in the world who own this machine and who are not satisfied with it. In a few seconds, you just need to connect to the Mobility Work CMMS software in order to check if a user has this machine. If this is the case, you can then retrieve a whole range of information, including the user's opinion, the most frequent breakdowns, the annual budget for spare parts consumed on this machine, and even contact the user of this machine anonymously to find out his opinion.

The impact on how businesses manage their machine purchases and how equipment suppliers interact with their customers is immediate. The process is inspired by the usual buying process applied to consumer goods available on e-commerce sites, where consulting consumer reviews and the overall supplier rating have become commonplace.

Thinking community means changing the way we manage maintenance: finding lost documentation, needing to know what maintenance plan was carried out on a machine, looking for information about a similar failure... all this as in an industrial maintenance forum.

Take for example the case of inventory management. Indeed, many businesses today use automatic replenishment of their stocks. Consequence: spare parts corresponding to machines that are no longer present on the equipment park are ordered. It is commonly accepted that the stock of spare parts is very expensive for the company. Imagine that you have to order three Leroy Somer LS 180 engines; maybe you would like to be informed that around your factory, 4 people already have this engine in stock in their spare parts store. You will be able to order one less, and get help from a nearby company.

Mobility Work puts communication at the heart of factories through information sharing and user communities

Industrial maintenance and data protection forum

As mentioned above, the subject of information sharing cannot be separated from that of confidentiality. Users are the owners of the data they integrate into the Mobility Work CMMS software, and choose the level of data confidentiality themselves. They can decide to share their information with communities (neither company names nor users are publicly available), with their industry group only, or to keep it private. This information is drowned in the mass, none ABB robot IRB 6400 does not stand out among 20,000 other ABB IRB 6400 robots. Even if you have a million-euro machine and do not want to share it with one of the communities, your future maintenance problems will most certainly involve common components such as a pump, a motor or a sensor.

Mobility Work is much more than a simple CMMS software: it is a platform dedicated to maintenance, an industrial maintenance forum, which allows professionals to exchange equipment, spare parts, advice and best practices. Thanks to our unique tool, we offer you the opportunity to modernize your maintenance service quickly, easily and sustainably. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us or to schedule a demonstration of the application.

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