The Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) plays an irreplaceable and indispensable role nowadays. Previously, maintenance tasks required a greater investment of time and effort, involving a lot of documentation such as job cards, clipboards, and maintenance records. The utilization of CMMS offers various benefits, most importantly saving human effort, which can be invested in more productive ways. The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken CMMS to an advanced state. Choosing Cryotos over many other CMMS packages offers users a completely comfortable experience. Moreover, it is 100% customizable, making it a more reliable option with additional facilities and services available.
"The saying goes, 'A planned action is already half the success.' Utilizing a CMMS package has many positive effects on the user because of the following factors.
The maintenance of assets in large-scale industries requires exceptional efforts from employees and regular checks by managers. This kind of execution can lead to unexpected machine failures and restrict the life of assets. This, in turn, affects productivity, and employees are forced to work overtime unexpectedly. In the long run, all these affect the overall operational costs. The lifeline for these kinds of problems is proactive maintenance. When an organization decides to invest in a CMMS solution for their maintenance needs, a proper schedule is set in advance, which assists in all maintenance tasks. Just like the services done on vehicles to save expensive repairs, the industrial equipment should be serviced before it runs into any trouble causing downtime. These proactive and preventive measures obviously save unplanned breakdowns and extend the asset's life.
Unplanned breakdowns and downtimes deteriorate productivity. As mentioned earlier, proactive and Preventive Maintenance tracks the asset's service dates. These planned services give a prior idea of the expenses that need to be spent and, to a large extent, reduce unexpected expenses. As maintenance is pre-planned, it saves employees' time, avoids unnecessary chaos, and results in increased productivity.
Corrective maintenance, in other words, is reactive maintenance. It involves repairing the equipment when a problem is identified. This can be done in two ways:
The user should understand the real difference between preventive and corrective maintenance. Preventive maintenance is planned in advance, while corrective maintenance is unplanned and unexpected. It can benefit the user when preventive maintenance leads to corrective maintenance, i.e., a severe problem is identified and rectified during a routine inspection. A well-planned preventive schedule can help reduce expenses for corrective maintenance. However, it is impossible to eliminate expenses for corrective maintenance completely, but it can be minimized to a large extent.
Gaining profits over investments and taking returns is challenging for any organization. Sometimes it can even result in the loss of capital, and to a large extent, it depends on the country's economic condition. It is like sailing a ship in a storm. At these times, the organization should make decisions more cautiously. Currently, CMMS yields greater results, and over 80% of organizations invest in CMMS to cut down their costs in several ways.
a) Cut down the maintenance costs
CMMS proves to be a one-stop solution for all maintenance needs. Through preventive and proactive maintenance, 80% of unexpected expenses can be reduced, and the life of assets can be extended through corrective maintenance. This digital solution significantly minimizes maintenance costs when compared to manual maintenance.
b) More uptime and productivity
With a well-planned work schedule and proper follow-up, employee efficiency can be doubled, resulting in increased productivity for the organization. With more uptime, targets can be achieved within set limits, leading to improved customer satisfaction, increased workflow, and paving the way for several new projects.
c) Protracting the lifetime of assets
For any industry, the maintenance of equipment is the heart of success. Whenever there is a repair in the equipment, it affects the life of assets. Moreover, it also leads to downtime at work. Unexpected downtimes are met with the employees' extra work, which, in turn, affects the efficiency of the employees. Hence, the need for a state of the art solution. Equipment of lesser usage is often not noted and maintained with prior notice by the employees. In the long run, the equipment will lead to total failure. But for the Equipment Maintenance Software, all equipment is the same, and it will accurately indicate every equipment's maintenance schedule. By doing this, we can reduce the early discard of equipment.
As a result, the equipment's lifespan is significantly extended, leading to a quicker return on investment.
d) Improved labor efficiency
CMMS offers a proper implementation schedule, prioritizes the work, and issues a work order to the employees. This, in turn, reduces chaos in the workflow. Due to the orderly workflow, employee efficiency and interest are doubled. We can also plan maintenance work in advance to assign the right person to do the job at the right time; This ensures error-free and quality repairs.