Seven Steps to Maintenance Heaven? (continued)
Step 3: Upgrade your use of the CMMS
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Seven Steps to Maintenance Heaven? (continued)
Step 3: Upgrade your use of the CMMS
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Seven Steps to Maintenance Heaven? (continued) by Ben Stevens
Step 3: Upgrade your use of the CMMS
The CMMS (or EAM – for the purposes of this discussion, they are one and the same), is potentially the most powerful tool a company has in its quest for maintenance cost and quality improvements. Yet it is woefully underutilized. In discussions with a utility company recently, they admitted they used only about 30% of the capability of the system – and yet they are regarded as THE most capable users among the vendor’s fleet of customers. Their current campaign to raise this level to 50% is expected to reap $70m per year in benefits.
A question often asked is how to tell whether we are deriving value from our CMMS?
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