Sunday, September 25, 2011

Maintenance Asset: Important Steps Before Implementing an Equipment Maintenance Management Software

By Arthur Crandal


We all know that having an equipment maintenance management software is a must inside our company for reducing costs, saving, for availability of assets and even for the cars we own. You will learn how to apply effectively maintenance with or without the power of an equipment maintenance asset management software. You will need Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. To begin create a folder in your pc for storing the files we suggest in this tutorial.Name it "My Company Maintenance"

Step1: Organize your environment- One of the most important steps before using an equipment maintenance management software and getting the most from your company is to know your goals about maintenance. So what are your main goals: is it availability, or reduce repairing? Write down your goal, and lets begin! Step 2: List and group the assets- You need to group those assets by different or specifics needs for example: all the cars, all the truck of specific year, make, etc. this is in order to define the maintenance tasks and common maintenance routines recommended by the supplier for each group. One of the benefits that an equipment maintenance management software should give you is grouping your equipment for easy managing and scheduling. Open Excel and create a note book inside the folder and name it "Assets List.xls". Add one row per asset.Include the columns: Asset Id, Description, Group, Location.

Now, after years of neglecting asset and maintenance management strategies that could lengthen the useful life of assets, Lodges are faced with substantial capital expenditures at a time when financing is tough to come by and leaving them wondering what if the equipment could have lasted just a little bit longer? Top Five Asset and Maintenance Management Changes Needed Evening the playing field for sales and operations is in the best interest of all lodge owners. The top 5 most significant changes that should be made include: Implementation of CMMS software. CMMS software automate many of the manual work management processes as well as:

Promote pro-active maintenance on assets to reduce surprise emergency repairs. Help going green plans by increasing energy efficiency of lodging assets through inspections and regularly scheduled maintenance
Ensure scheduled maintenance on critical assets. Lowers overall labor cost because more work can be done with the same amount of resources
Records all maintenance activity on each asset. Use of technology for asset maintenance functions such as handheld mobile devices. The ability to use historical maintenance data to identify recurring or increasing problem assets and use this information to make changes or plan capital expenditures. Establishment of standard operating maintenance procedures across multiple facilities.
A greater ROA. Increasing Lodging Asset Management Visibility.

With the days of unlimited financial resources gone, Lodging owners can accomplish needed change in increasing asset management visibility by balancing sales and operations investments. Because of the economy, Lodging asset management visibility has never been as important as it is today. As a result, new operational investment must come in the form of people, planning, CMMS tools, training, and the integration of technology to maximize efficiencies as well as minimize costs.




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