Reduce maintenance costs thanks to CMMS

Reduce maintenance costs and improve reliability thanks to a CMMS

Faced with the changes in the world of industry, companies are often looking for new levers of competitiveness. Their desire is clear: to reduce their operating expenses. However, maintenance costs represent one of the main expenses, so it is not surprising that companies are redoubling their efforts to reduce them by implementing a CMMS system.

However, reducing the budget is not the only solution to reduce maintenance costs. Some business leaders have understood this and prefer to turn to innovative solutions, because by sacrificing the reliability of its equipment and therefore the quality of its products and services, a company takes the risk of finding itself in difficulty. On the other hand, it is possible to save up to 15% of final maintenance costs by deploying a maintenance optimization program to improve equipment reliability, employee productivity, and manage spare parts and equipment usage.

What is a CMMS, and why adopt it?

Computer-aided maintenance management software is specially designed to help businesses manage and streamline maintenance. Driven by a rapidly developing IT sector, maintenance management software has continued to multiply and improve. The choice of the type of maintenance management software will depend in particular on the size of the company, its commercial objectives and its sector of activity.

In a dynamic digital environment, the lifespan of existing solutions can quickly be shortened. However, a traditional maintenance management solution is often difficult to use, requires many hours of training, a qualified workforce and additional investments. Conversely, the new generation CMMS is intuitive and agile and is available in a mobile version. Mobility Work is not a simple software, it is a real innovative strategic tool combining the advantages of software, a social network and a platform in a unique industrial maintenance solution.

An error in choosing asset management software, a difficult deployment, or poorly defined and poorly managed goals are all factors that can hinder the completion of a project. This is why it is essential, before adopting a maintenance application, to understand its functionalities, to compare the various existing options and to align them with the company's business goals.

Mobility Work combines the two essential criteria for a successful integration of your CMMS: ease of adaptation to maintenance processes and ease of use.

Management of work orders through maintenance

Work orders (TOs), or “tasks” at Mobility Work, are at the heart of CMMS. They make it possible to initiate, monitor and record all activities related to maintenance. After receiving and validating an intervention request, a work order is opened. The intervention is then planned, carried out and then recorded. OTs contain detailed maintenance data and provide valuable information about maintenance performance, costs, and equipment history, such as:

• the title of the maintenance task, its start and end dates;
• detailed information on the use of spare parts;
• detailed instructions for each stage of the maintenance intervention;
• material and labour costs;
• all the necessary information on the technician who carried out the intervention;
• the life cycle of the work order: its origin, the dates of planning, validation and execution...

Once the work order is complete, this information can be used to track equipment maintenance costs directly from the maintenance management software. The application mainly allows you to track the time spent on the various tasks and activities as well as the cost of materials. A company's order book is a relevant indicator for analyzing downtime, equipment failures, and employee schedules and performance.

Equipment Management

By scanning the NFC chip on your equipment, you have direct access via Mobility Work to all the necessary information concerning the machine: its location, its sub-components and spare parts, associated interventions, failures, failures, plans and associated images.

Mobility Work traces the maintenance history of your equipment, of your preventive and corrective maintenance interventions, of your preventive and corrective maintenance interventions, of the replacement of spare parts or even the duration and nature of the downtime of your installations, thus allowing you to analyze both the performance of your equipment and your maintenance costs.

Plan your preventive maintenance

The development of a preventive maintenance plan makes it possible to establish regular maintenance actions, in order to improve the reliability of equipment and increase productivity. Maintenance planning is strategic for businesses: it reflects their vision of maintenance and how they plan to manage their assets over the long term.

Preventive maintenance plans include interventions to be carried out at defined intervals on certain equipment. The application then uses these plans to automatically create tasks.

The calendar feature offered by Mobility Work allows you to plan all your preventive and predictive maintenance interventions.

Mobility Work allows you to plan your tasks on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis, or simply based on a defined counter reading (after 500 hours of service, for example). Thus, Mobility Work takes into account asset maintenance policies, preventive maintenance programs, tasks, components and resources required for certain interventions.

Spare parts management

For many businesses, maintenance and repair equipment and consumables are used during the production process but are not integrated into the final product. Since inventory represents up to 40% of the annual procurement budget, it is important to have the right part available at the right time, without having to invest significant amounts of money. Reliable and up-to-date inventory data allows you to effectively manage your spare parts.

Access all the information on your spare parts from the equipment sheet in your Mobility Work application.

Inspired by the latest digital trends, Mobility Work is a new generation CMMS that helps you manage your assets in an ever more innovative, dynamic and flexible way. This solution guarantees a rigorous follow-up of planned preventive maintenance interventions, and thus contributes to the improvement of the general performance of the company.

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