Mobile Maintenance

Today facilities managers, supervisors or craft person are on the move more than ever. Rise of wireless communications has enabled CMMS software providers to support the need for mobile maintenance. ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk CMMS Software comes with PDA based work order management allowing more flexibility and movement.

Using your iPhone or Blackberry or any PDA device you can do the following

Work Requests raised through phone calls can now be instantly created from your hand-held device on entering details such as, requester name, request title and description.

• View work order details then and there
• Assign requests to supervisors instantly
• Spontaneously add resolution to a request
• View/Edit resolutions for a request
• Add work log for a request
• Add the time spent details for a request from your mobile device
• Add craft person work log
• Add the time spend details of the craft person too from your hand held device

No add-on and no additional cost. PDA support is a standard feature in ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk. Use the following links to try ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk from your mobile

PDA CAFM Software Demo

PDA CMMS Software Demo

Username and Password : administrator

CMMS, CAFM Mobile Demo

We have updated ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk demo with mobile login for Supervisor and Craftperson.

Try it from your iPhone, Blackberry or any mobile device and let us know your feedback.



To access the mobile demo, goto http://demo.facilitiesdesk.com and click on the mobile image.

Enjoy your Weekend

Why run to office or to your home computer to manage emergency or urgent work request. Enjoy your weekend, access FacilitiesDesk from your PDA(iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia etc) for any urgent work.

CMMS/CAFM - Day-to-Day data entry

Nice blog post on Important considerations for CMMS data entry

The above post deals with two forms of data entry
1. Initial data entry
2. Day-to-Day data entry

Initial data entry is a large task, but making a good commitment to the initial data gathering will make the job easier.

There is a massive amount of work required between gathering and entering this initial data. After all, there will be equipment data such as model number, serial number, equipment ID, purchase date, installation date, warranty, etc. Included in the data should be information on preventive maintenance on each asset (what needs to be done, how often work should be performed, etc.). There will also be inventory parts information including part number, description, location and reorder point. Labor information including each technician’s name and basic employee information also should be incorporated.

Coming to the Day-to-Day data entry, you have couple of options

1. Have a administrative assistant to enter the data. Here the data needs to be recorded on paper by the technician who is on the job and hand over the paper to the assistant.
2. Have the technician enter the data into system at the end of his/her work.

Will not be easy if they can directly enter the data into the system from the field using a PDA. This will be the ideal scenario where no information is lost, no recording of data on paper (Go Green) and no extra manpower (Administrative assistant) is required.

Now you know the real use of PDA integration in FacilitiesDesk. You can access FacilitiesDesk from your iPhone or Blackberry and update the system on the go.