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The cost of inaction is increasing in the present-day industrial environment. To the facility and asset managers, the issue is obvious: unexpected downtime, increasing equipment prices, and business inefficiency are not merely a maintenance problem anymore but a threat to the profitability of the business. Trusting old-fashioned techniques or fragmented spreadsheets can continuously have the teams in firefighting mode, as they strive to keep critical assets in operation as budgets run out.
Nevertheless, there has been a major change during the past ten years. Maintenance is no longer considered a cost center or some kind of fix-it department gathered in the basement. It has become a business pillar of strategic success. It is no longer about repairing failed machines but about "Asset Performance Management," a more proactive strategy that will help predict failures, extend the life cycle, and identify the value concealed within each piece of equipment.
It is in this regard that Cryotos comes in. The more strategies are not reactive but data-driven, the more complicated it is to manage them. Cryotos CMMS fills this gap by offering the intelligent digital core required to transform these sophisticated maintenance plans into a day-to-day operational reality, such that your day of conversion from fixing to optimizing is an easy and scalable affair.
In essence, maintenance is the overall collection of actions necessary to maintain an asset, that is, a manufacturing robot, an HVAC system, or city infrastructure, in good condition.
Although the key aim is to reduce failures and rectify the performance degradation, contemporary maintenance comprises the value preservation as well. It guarantees that all equipment remains functional for its intended purpose throughout its life cycle. Maintenance can be broadly classified into two:
Having a maintenance strategy is not only a nice-to-have but also a business imperative.
A maintenance strategy has to be specific to the asset, the environment it is operating in, and the performance objectives of the organization to be effective.
Maintenance is not a "one-size-fits-all" discipline. Most leading organizations use a hybrid approach, choosing certain strategies to use depending on the criticality of the assets, their replacement cost, and the impact of failing.
Here is a breakdown of the six strategies dominating the industry today:
Being confused with the idea of bad planning, reactive maintenance is a fair approach to use in the right methods. The model does not involve carrying out any maintenance until the asset ceases to work.
This is the minimum requirement of the majority of the facilities. Preventive Maintenance (PM) is based on some kind of calendar or use trigger (e.g., every 3 months or every 500 cycles).
Predictive maintenance is the transformation from time-based to condition based. It is based on the real health of the machine instead of on a schedule.
When predictive maintenance can inform you when something will be broken, prescriptive maintenance can inform you how to handle it. This is the state of the art of Asset Performance Management (APM).
Corrective maintenance is often confused with reactive maintenance, but there is a nuance: it focuses on the act of restoration.
RCM is not a maintenance activity per se —it is a strategy. It is the governing logic that determines what choice out of the above strategies to employ on what asset.
The current facility needs automated systems because manual strategy management through spreadsheets and paper records has become unworkable. The solution to this problem comes from Cryotos CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).
Cryotos provides a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that allows you to:
Whether you are managing a manufacturing plant, a healthcare facility, or a fleet of vehicles, Cryotos scales to meet your specific needs.
The most effective maintenance solutions require organizations to use both predictive tools and preventive maintenance schedules through their maintenance programs. The organization needs advanced software systems because it needs to handle hybrid operations that exceed its spreadsheet capabilities. The Cryotos CMMS system makes complex tasks easier to manage. Our platform functions as a central hub that enables you to automate processes while decreasing operational downtime and transforming maintenance data into practical business solutions.
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