CMMS Software Benefits

This CMMS Maintenance Management Conference information discusses the design, implementation, and benefits of CMMS and Preventive Maintenance Software in outline format. Click here for additional information about these subjects.

• Reduce your plant maintenance and operating costs!
• Properly maintain your machines to minimize downtime.
• Your production costs decrease!
• Reduce your long-term maintenance operating costs!
• Minimize your breakdowns and emergency repairs.
• Minimize your emergency expenditures.
• Lower your cost for parts purchased.
• Lower your inventory holding costs.

Reduce your outside contractor costs since the maintenance department has more time for preventative maintenance procedures.

An overall reduction in your maintenance operation cost due to organization and efficiency.

Better planning of your jobs! Get them done correctly the first time and in a timely manner with minimal call backs.

Improve Your Quality:

• Consistent operation of your machinery improves product quality.
• Setup and operation of your equipment is more accurate.

Reduce Your Waste:

With proper maintenance, your machines can operate without stoppage to reduce waste in your
facility.

Reduce Your Energy Consumption:

Correctly maintaining your machinery uses less energy.

Extend Your Equipment Life:

Reduction in capital spending when your equipment lasts longer due to correct and timely
preventive maintenance.

Employee Training:

• A good PM system database (procedures and tasks) acts as an employee training system.
• The detailed tasks explain exactly how to perform repetitive maintenance.
  Your new employees will no longer need to guess how to do things in your department.

Reduce Your Employee Turnover:

• Minimize breakdowns and improve employee morale by allowing them to take pride in the job
  they are doing.
• Empower your employees by giving them modern tools to accomplish everyday tasks.
• Management expresses interest by providing your department with the proper tools to get the job
  done (CMMS software is a tool for the maintenance department).
• Reduce job stress with minimal breakdown and emergency repairs!

Improve the Safety of Your Employees and Equipment:

• Machine safety increases with machine reliability.
• A PM system can include safe work procedures and safety checks of critical
  components in order to keep your mechanics and operators safe.

Your Additional Cost Reductions:

Cost reductions come in many ways as secondary benefits of a CMMS system.

• Worker efficiency increases since they go to a job with the correct parts and instructions.
• Machines require less parts and repairs when correctly maintained.
• Prices paid per part are less due to known prices previously paid. Vendors are unable
  to indiscriminately raise prices (It is not uncommon for a medium-sized plant to have
  5 to 10 thousand different purchased parts. How do you keep track of this type of
  information without a good inventory system?).
• Purchaser of parts is more efficient due to available information (Where part is purchased,
  last price, vendor, quantity used since last purchase, other vendor prices).
• Purchaser can spend more time researching lower prices to save on part prices.

What can you actually expect to gain by implementation?

• Actual surveys* have shown a 10%–20% reduction in maintenance labor costs and a
  10%–15% reduction in parts cost. *(Thomas Marketing Information Center)
• Justification for purchasing a system is adequate on these reductions alone.
• The largest cost savings comes from improved efficiency of your plant, quality improvement
  of the product and all the other benefits previously discussed. It is hard to calculate cost
  savings for these benefits. How do you predict what portion of the increase in sales is due
  to improved quality?