What is CMMS?

A CMMS software package helps organizations manage the maintenance of equipment and facilities. For example, it can keep track of preventive maintenance schedules, service contracts, problem reports, and material inventories. The software lets you manage your people and resources more effectively, whatever your industry.

Why buy a CMMS?

Does your company understand the real benefits of CMMS? You're probably familiar with how accounting software helps your organization manage cash flows, pay suppliers and employees, and collect accounts receivable. Accounting software also provides management with important information to make better strategic decisions.

Just as accounting systems help manage the financial activities of your organization, a CMMS package provides your organization with the means to manage maintenance effectively. CMMS gives you the ability to capture information and make powerful decisions about the valuable assets of your organization, whether those assets are production equipment or rooms in a facility.

More specifically, CMMS provides you with the ability to do the following:

Effectively Plan Maintenance Functions
CMMS lets you take control of maintenance functions in your organization, giving you the freedom to move maintenance activities out of crisis mode and into planning mode.

Improve Productivity
CMMS improves your organization's productivity by maximizing equipment uptime and keeping assets in peak operating condition. This reduces unplanned downtime and demand maintenance. Work efficiency is also achieved through better scheduling of maintenance staff.

Lower Overall Operating Costs
CMMS lets you control and lower maintenance department costs. You gain significant savings by preventing expensive repairs before they occur and improving the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks. And because you don't stop paying employees when equipment isn't functioning, preventing downtime also delivers lower operating costs.

Keep On Top of Legal Obligations and Liability
CMMS can remind you of inspections and preventive maintenance chores that are required by law. For example, many organizations have the legal obligation to perform regular upkeep on various types of equipment (elevators, fire prevention systems, medical equipment, etc.). CMMS can make sure you know when maintenance is required, can keep reminding you until the work is actually done, and can preserve records proving that the necessary maintenance was completed. In this way, CMMS can protect your organization against lawsuits and other potential risks.

Reduce Insurance Premiums
Many insurance companies have recognized that proper use of a CMMS reduces the chance of costly insurance claims. Your facilities are safer because maintenance work gets done promptly and reliably. Your equipment suffers fewer malfunctions; preventive maintenance inspections can spot potential dangers before they actually cause trouble. For this reason, insurers may reduce the premiums of organizations that use a CMMS.

Record and Store Valuable Information
Perhaps the greatest utility of CMMS is its ability to provide you with relevant information regarding maintenance functions. For example, CMMS can alert your organization to under-performing equipment or spaces, labor inefficiencies and reasons for production outages. This type of information lets you make better and more accountable decisions about maintenance functions in your organization.

CMMS - An Important Business Opportunity
Clearly, CMMS is an important business opportunity that can markedly improve operations, increase accountability for maintenance functions and yield substantial financial benefits.

NEC Your CMMS partner

Maintenance being a key element in the overall energy efficiency field, NEC has partnered with CMMS Midmarket leader Micromain in order to provide a full maintenance solution to its clients.

There are numerous CMMS packages on the market today...

What makes Micromain different from the rest?

It's a complete package that's easy to use. If you check Micromain product profile, you'll see that Micromain has all the features you need to manage your maintenance work; but we've worked hard to simplify every aspect of the program. Micromain is a total maintenance solution...simplified.

Getting the most out of computerized maintenance in your organization shouldn't require extensive training. That's why Micromain Maintenance Software products are used by organizations in every market sector: manufacturing plants, property management, school boards, health care facilities, hotels and resorts, offices, universities, and government buildings.