{"id":421,"date":"2011-10-14T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psiwebware.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:28:32","slug":"preventive-maintenance-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-7\/preventive-maintenance-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive Maintenance Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tighter budgets and today\u2019s economic challenges, it\u2019s more important than ever for any business to watch their bottom line, and that includes proper maintenance of equipment.\u00a0 The breakdown of one piece of machinery can cripple the work flow, and a downtime for as little as a day can translate to the loss of thousands\u2014even millions\u2014of dollars.\u00a0 Preventive maintenance, therefore, can mean the success or failure of any given business.<\/p>\n

However, scheduling preventive maintenance<\/a> means little if the actual maintenance is not done properly, or at the recommended time.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to have everyone on your team on the same page, working to their optimum level, in order to keep business running smoothly.\u00a0 But providing accountability for such maintenance can be a daunting task.<\/p>\n

How can I make sure all employees have the specs on any given equipment?\u00a0 How can I make sure the maintenance is done correctly by all employees, regardless of their length of time with the company?\u00a0 Is there a way to send them to the site, confident that they have the necessary tools and equipment needed to perform the maintenance?<\/p>\n

Most companies have asked these very questions, and have opted to invest in a quality CMMS<\/a> (Computerized Maintenance Management System) software, making sure the software they choose includes Preventive Maintenance Software.\u00a0 The advantages of this type of system are many, including:<\/p>\n

Regular Scheduling of Necessary Preventive Maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are responsible for ten or twenty pieces of equipment, regular preventive maintenance wouldn\u2019t be much of a problem.\u00a0 But most successful companies maintain\u2014or would like to maintain\u2014several facilities housing thousands of pieces of equipment.\u00a0 The scheduling for all of this would be mind-boggling.\u00a0 Luckily,\u00a0CMMS software is designed with this scenario in mind.\u00a0 Some can even balance your work load using Industry Standards and Federal Guidelines as benchmarks to insure that the work is done at the recommended standard.<\/p>\n

Employee Management and Training<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Preventive Maintenance system will track each task done by each employee, decreasing the chance of an employee providing maintenance too soon or too late\u00a0within the schedule.\u00a0 Also, your managers can easily adjust schedules through an employee scheduling system, insuring that a replacement is made for a worker who is sick, on vacation, or has left the company. And through web-based Preventive Maintenance Systems, your workforce will be constantly up-to-date on maintenance training and other issues.\u00a0 Whether they are in the office or in the field, as long as they have an Internet connection, they have the answers with them at all times, day or night.<\/p>\n

Accurate Preventive Maintenance Records<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once the service is done, the way to guarantee future service is done correctly is proper and timely recording of preventive maintenance.\u00a0 A quality CMMS makes this fairly easy, and accurate records insure that proper maintenance is done at the proper time.<\/p>\n

No matter the software, a Preventive Maintenance System can only work well if used regularly.\u00a0 Make sure the system you decide on takes all the issues of your specific preventive maintenance into account, and is flexible and intuitive so that it adapts as your business grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter the software, a Preventive Maintenance System can only work well if used regularly. Make sure the system you decide on takes all the issues of your specific preventive maintenance into account, and is flexible and intuitive so that it adapts as your business grows.<\/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":[44],"tags":[6,10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"psp_head":"Preventive Maintenance Accountability \u2013 PSIwebware - Hometown of TAMS<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Preventive Maintenance system will track each task done by each employee, decreasing the chance of an employee providing maintenance too soon or too late.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-7\/preventive-maintenance-accountability\/\" \/>\r\n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ATPx-6N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}