CMMS

Maintenance planning is the crucial first step to having effective as well as efficient maintenance operations. Without good maintenance planning, maintenance staff will be trapped in never ending routines of reacting to one maintenance problem after another.
Maintenance planning has several parts but it begins with knowing the objectives of management. Management objectives will generally include specific targets. Some examples include:

* Reduce labor expenses through the elimination of overtime as a result of unplanned or emergency work.
* Collect accurate work history information on all assets in order to more accurately forecast capital budget needs.
* Achieving 100% on time completion of maintenance work orders.
* Eliminate the backlog of outstanding work requests.
* Achieving specified benchmarks for performance such as 90 percent uptime.
* Eliminate manual processes for work management using a CMMS.
* Establish standard operating procedures for the care of assets.
* Reduce energy consumption by 20% by maintaining equipment better using proper preventive maintenance or by reducing energy waste.
* Have 80% of all work be proactive (inspections, preventive maintenance, work request work orders, rounds, repairs).
* Reduce paper flow by scanning all asset and vendor documents.

Although each industry and organization is different the objectives for better asset and maintenance management are fairly consistent. Asset intensive businesses need efficient as well as effective maintenance management. The best asset intensive always start with maintenance planning.