{"id":167,"date":"2009-07-16T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psiwebware.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:07:10","slug":"maintenance-and-repair-management-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-1\/maintenance-and-repair-management-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance and Repair Management Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When choosing a Maintenance and Repair Management System, it often difficult to find one system that meets the needs of everyone in the organization. \u00a0\u00a0Although there are quite a number of Preventive Maintenance Software systems available, they each are organized differently and have their own requirements regarding maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>An effective maintenance and repair system operates from the perspective of a facility manager.\u00a0\u00a0Maintenance needs to be goal oriented, and\u00a0<a title=\"Preventive Maintenance Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psiwebware.com\/cmms\/preventive-maintenance.php\" target=\"_blank\">Preventive Maintenance Software<\/a> should support the needs of those directly performing or managing the work.<\/p>\n<p>A well-designed management system will follow the classic management model: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and evaluating. \u00a0An excellent system will include a high level of automation and notification of significant events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elements to look for in a Maintenance and Repair Management System:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Work Planning and Budgeting<br \/>\n&#8211; Staffing, Scheduling, and Performance Tracking<br \/>\n&#8211; Unscheduled Work Management and Automated Notifications<br \/>\n&#8211; Preventive Maintenance Management, Condition Assessment, and Equipment History<br \/>\n&#8211; Reports that increase understanding and lead to Preventive Action<\/p>\n<p>Of course, oversight control and quick access to key performance measurements are important to corporate managers, and they should seek a system that will give them the tracking capabilities they need.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most important priority should be choosing a system that your staff understands so they use it properly.\u00a0 Bells and whistles may look desirable, but if the bell never rings and the whistle never blows, you have just purchased expensive eye candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bells and whistles may look desirable, but if the bell never rings and the whistle never blows, you have just purchased expensive eye candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[37],"tags":[6,10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"psp_head":"<title>Maintenance and Repair Management Systems \u2013 PSIwebware - Hometown of TAMS<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bells and whistles may look desirable, but if the bell never rings and the whistle never blows, you have just purchased expensive eye candy.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-1\/maintenance-and-repair-management-systems\/\" \/>\r\n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ATPx-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}