Machine life cycle and industrial maintenance

Machine life cycle in the world of industrial maintenance

Equipment maintenance, like all industrial processes, can consist of several phases to determine the machine life cycle of an equipment.

Unfortunately, the various steps are not always respected by companies, which can have harmful consequences on the quality of the choices to be made in the management of the equipment in their machine park.

La Mobility Work CMMS makes it possible to trace these various stages, and therefore to deduce the machine life cycle of an equipment. CMMS is intended to be the information core of your site, and should thus allow you to centralize all the information related to the machine life cycle of the equipment, in a single software that is accessible to all operators and services in the factory.

1. Design phase

This first phase corresponds to the analysis of needs as well as to the completion of the specifications. It is during this stage that a first outline of the requirements in terms of the reliability of the installations and the type of maintenance (internal, external) should appear.

Mobility Work offers you the possibility to compare the different machines present on the maintenance platform, even before consulting different manufacturers; in fact, all manufacturers will tend to praise the merits of their equipment. Thanks to Mobility Work CMMS, connect with users who already have the equipment you want to buy, and get their opinion, information on the maintenance problems encountered, the average maintenance budget for the first year of implementation, etc. You will thus obtain real comparative elements, which will allow you to develop a first draft concerning preventive maintenance plans to be set up.

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2. Development, manufacturing and installation phase

Once your equipment has been chosen, the next step consists of the project phase and the monitoring of the operations to install your equipment in your factory. Today, many new construction departments use Mobility Work CMMS to manage their project, as well as to monitor and trace operations related to the improvement of the machine park. In this way, you can create equipment per project, and start monitoring the various progress of the project (intervention of service providers, monitoring the time of internal staff on the project, costs of orders in the ERP, or even the spare parts consumed for the implementation of the project).

The label system will allow you to identify certain operations (investment project, etc.), and to obtain traceability and a total project cost. This data is particularly useful if you want to justify the cost of a project to recover subsidies (research tax credit for example). Once your equipment is installed, simply drag and drop the tasks performed during installation under the equipment. Thus, the entire development, manufacturing and installation phase is traced in your CMMS software at the level of the equipment sheet.

During this period, it is also essential to start drawing up the technical documentation of the equipment, the various maintenance ranges as well as the implementation of first-level maintenance in order to integrate them into the maintenance management software.

3. Operational phase

This phase corresponds to the phase of launching and using the machine. This will initially be subject to early defects, then all maintenance operations (corrective, preventive, etc.) can be traced in the maintenance management software.

Knowledge of the equipment makes it possible to initiate a process of continuous improvement and to adapt the operation of the equipment through various technical feedback (data analysis). The objective is to measure the evolution of your equipment in terms of maintenance costs (internal and external labor, as well as the costs of spare parts consumed), so as to be able to answer the question at any time: should I continue to maintain my equipment or should I invest in a new machine?

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4. Dismantling or transfer phase

Once your machine is at the end of its life (too much repair, change of activity, etc.), it will probably have to be transferred from your industrial park to another factory.

However, when a machine is recovered, it is very rarely accompanied by its history, digital documentation, maintenance plans, etc. Mobility Work CMMS software allows you to transfer all the elements of your machine to a new network in a single click.

The Mobility Work next-generation maintenance management platform thus allows you to adopt a predictive maintenance routine, and to optimize the management of the machine life cycle of your equipment as well as your operations. Thanks to Mobility Work, you can better manage your maintenance budget as well as the efficiency of your teams.

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