How to manage your industrial equipment in your CMMS

Whatever your sector of activity, the maintenance of your industrial equipment is a central problem on which the quality of your production depends. Whether it is a question of meeting the standards of your customers or of reducing the risk of downtime on your production line, you must be able to count on the reliability of your tools. Plan and monitor your maintenance operations using a CMMS application.

Why manage your industrial equipment in your CMMS

In most companies, tool management falls back to the methods department. In too many cases, maintenance monitoring, as important as it is, is carried out on Excel files. This method is not without risks: data loss, poor information flow, lack of visibility on themaintenance history, etc.

However, there are solutions that are easy to implement. Deploying a maintenance management application makes it possible to guarantee the traceability of maintenance operations. Versatile and intuitive, Mobility Work CMMS is perfectly adapted to the management of your industrial equipment. In addition, its appearance communal guarantees a better communication between the different departments of your company.

Importing your tools into your CMMS

Before planning your maintenance interventions, you will need to integrate your tools into your CMMS. To do this, two solutions are available to you: import your data from an Excel file, or create your tooling manually.

For this second option, all you need to do is think of tooling as equipment. To add new tools, click on create new equipment and enter the following information:

• Equipment name : Tool type — Customer name — Tool number. The tool number is a important constant allowing the operator to differentiate between the various tools. In addition, this number allows them to quickly find a tool thanks to the search bar of your CMMS.
• Equipment description : all the information useful to your maintenance teams.
• Cost center : geographical or financial division of the tools.
• Pictures & documents : add all the documentation necessary for the maintenance of your tools.

More details on creating an equipment sheet

Once this first step has been completed, you can now organize your maintenance plans, follow the progress of the interventions in Real time and analyze your maintenance data.

Improve maintenance processes

Deploying a modern CMMS allows you to simplify and improve most of your maintenance processes. Here are a few examples.

Plan your maintenance interventions

Once your tools are created, you can start plan your maintenance operations and assign them to your technicians. They will then be able to quickly transcribe their activities in their CMMS: problem encountered, nature of the intervention, date of completion, time spent... The display of operations on the News feed will allow other operators to be Informed of the progress of the work and to find the history of interventions on any tool.

In addition, Mobility Work mobile CMMS supports your technicians wherever they are. By adding a QR code Or a NFC chip to your industrial tools, operators will be able to more easily access the necessary information. First they can geolocate the place of intervention, then open the tool sheet simply by scanning the associated QR code using their smartphone or tablet. La Mobile CMMS is thus perfectly adapted to the daily life of itinerant technicians.

Analyze your maintenance data

Mobility Work allows you not only to facilitate the management of your tools within your team, but also to analyze your maintenance indicators thanks to our integrated tool. Use the labels on your tools to aggregate your data and generate detailed reports.