The Benefits

Key Benefits

Decreasing downtime and plant spares requirements forecasting are among the many benefits to be obtained by using CMMS processes for effectively managing maintenance workloads. The major cost benefits come from improving plant availability by increasing reliability.

Monitoring plant condition by using control systems, condition based maintenance and inspection routines aids identification of plant problems before total failure. This can provide substantial savings by reducing plant repair costs and by decreasing lost availability.

Modifying plant equipment to engineer out recurring defects can also substantially improve reliability. Maintenance administration information systems are efficient at highlighting non-complex problems, whilst Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) technology can be used to assist in analyzing the more complex failure to effect modes and their solutions.

Asset Management Systems assist by tracking equipment performance, monitoring staff performance, improving skills through access to a good knowledge base and by facilitating audits of work quality. It is important that staff are encouraged to use and interact with the information system, accept its ability to provide performance indices and work on improvement programs. This is often called Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

A system assists management to introduce good commercial, engineering, and supervisory practices based on hard evidence of current and past performance. Such a benefit is difficult to quantify in commercial terms, but is plainly good sense in the operation and maintenance of equipment.

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