How to succeed in your digital transition thanks to CMMS?

Whether as part of a digital transition or not, the use of computer tools and new technologies in all human activities is growing exponentially but not always well coordinated. A large number of companies are noticing this, especially SMEs and ETIs, for whom successfully completing their digital transition is becoming more and more urgent. It is an exercise that must be based on a good organization and on tools that are as relevant as possible. This urgency is such that the French government has put in place a plan to subsidize the industrial digital transition.

Les Software of GMAO (computer-aided maintenance management), which was originally concerned only maintenance activities, now have a more important role in the productive organization of factories and businesses. The latest generation of these solutions, often referred to as” GMAO 4.0 ”, represents one of the main opportunities to succeed in its industrial digital transition and, thus, maintain or even improve its competitiveness.

The challenges of the digital transition

For economic activities in general and industrial activities in particular, the digital transition is much more than a simple modification of certain production tools. It contains fundamental challenges.

Digital transition or digital transformation?

The term” Transition digital is often used interchangeably with its equivalent “digital transformation.” Generally, the two expressions therefore refer to the same thing: the process of transition of a society or organization from a mode of operation without digital tools to a model that fully integrates new digital technologies.

Some specialists bring specific nuances to these two terms, in particular depending on the type of activities concerned. Despite their interest, we will not include them here because they do not correspond to the majority use of these expressions, which are generally used in one and the same meaning.

The challenges of digital transformation for businesses

La Digital transformation, through the considerable changes that it involves and brings about both in production processes and in relationships between economic partners, covers crucial issues for businesses. Thus, many deadlines are reduced, because the transmission of information becomes almost instantaneous. The reaction time between a customer's order and delivery, for example, is directly impacted. Its reduction in fact leads to significant changes in stock management and in the organization of logistics circuits. Information, in general, is managed and stored differently at the end of the digital transition.

It also has an impact on relationships between the various professions. Construction, for example, has been experiencing this evolution in recent years with BIM (Building Information Modeling). Production and maintenance are evolving, as equipment can be controlled remotely, and operators can manage an increasing amount of information to optimize their tasks.

The relationship with the customer is also deeply questioned: the flow of information allows, in the long term, to evolve towards production guided by customer demand. Inventory management as well as product design itself are thus directly influenced.

The whole of the productive logic is therefore concerned by the profound changes that the Transition digital. More generally, it is the very competitiveness of each company that is at stake in the way in which it approaches its inevitable transformation.

The Subsidy Plan for Industrial Digital Transition

These challenges are so considerable that States and public organizations have been mobilizing for several years to help and support economic actors in their territories in the Transition digital. In France, for example, the government recently put online A guide to support industrial companies in the resumption of their activity Which presents in particular (pp 23 to 26) the assistance mechanisms for businesses that wish to “engage their Transition digital ”.

These systems, which are primarily aimed at SMEs and industrial SMEs, aim to support them in their transformation while the context linked to the Covid-19 epidemic and the health constraints put in place to deal with it makes Transition digital even more urgent and indispensable.

The key role of CMMS in the industrial digital transition

How, therefore, can a company succeed in Industrial digital transformation ? To do this, it is crucial to have the most efficient, profitable and scalable tools. In the field of maintenance, it is towards Next Generation CMMS That you have to turn.

Industrial maintenance in the digital age

The maintenance function plays a fundamental role in the search for the overall performance of a factory. Its digitalization is therefore a key element in a company's digital transition, because it allows in particular significant gains in terms of security, productivity and profitability. It also promotes the decompartmentalization of company services by making information accessible to all actors involved in maintenance management, while increasing the mobility of teams.

In general, the impact of Digital transformation On maintenance management is measured through the following points:

• The instantaneity of data: as data collection is one of the pillars of the maintenance function, it makes it possible to gain in reactivity and productivity;
• The wealth of information: it makes it possible to contextualize the data collected as much as possible, which makes maintenance much more efficient and accurate;
• agility: the digitalization of maintenance makes it possible to produce numerous analysis tools (reports, dashboards, etc.) to which all employees involved in maintenance can have access;
• ergonomics: digital maintenance management solutions must be easy to use to represent real progress for the company, which is the case with latest-generation CMMS software such as Mobility Work.

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

4.0 CMMS at the service of the digital transformation of businesses

One 4.0 CMMS software As Mobility Work is one of the tools that allow a company to succeed Transition digital. In fact, it combines several characteristics:

On the one hand, it was designed on the model of everyday applications, and offers optimal ergonomics, an essential condition for the success of any technological innovation, as mentioned above. Its 100% mobile use from any connected device such as a smartphone or tablet also promotes its appropriation by teams while promoting their productivity.

In addition, the analysis capabilities of this solution of Maintenance management Allow the collection and processing of an almost infinite quantity of high quality data. As we have seen, this makes maintenance much more precise and efficient, in particular by making it possible to adopt a strategy of Predictive maintenance.

Find an analytics tool in Mobility Work CMMS to analyze all your maintenance data and adapt your strategy

Finally, the flow of information is extremely fluid thanks in particular to the community operation of the application. Each operator or maintenance manager thus has access to information concerning each machine or each set of equipment, this access being customizable at any time.

Far from being an abstract concept, the Transition digital is a profound transformation of production methods and all associated activities, such as industrial maintenance. To be successful, it must be thought out and organized, in particular using adapted and efficient tools such as Mobility Work, a CMMS software Precisely designed to facilitate the digital transition of all businesses.