Plant maintenance refers to strategies, methods, checklists and practices used to keep industrial plants running effectively and efficiently. Starting from regular checks of equipment or assets to make sure they are functioning properly, to cleaning floors, rooms, walls, restrooms etc. The general aim of plant maintenance is to create a productive working environment that is also safe for its workers.
Not all factories and plants are same, each plant is unique and the ways to maintain these facilities and plants often vary. For example, a assembly unit will have different machinery than a chilling unit. Meaning every unit generally has its own maintenance plan, tailored to its priorities and particularities. A maintenance plan should include scheduling times (preventive maintenance) for equipment, asset checkups and general clean-up.
Most plants employ their own maintenance staff. This can include workers such as on-site engineers, whose job is to make sure that machines continue to operate effectively without any downtime. Downtime of key equipment will result in stoppage of the line which can be financially damaging.
Preventive maintenance is a crucial aspect to make sure a plant runs efficiently. Periodic checking of machines to see if it is operating correctly is one commonly used preventive measure. This can prevent machines, equipments from breaking down and also help to anticipate a possible problem.To ensure safe and clean work place its not only maintaining the machines and equipments but also the floors, walls, restrooms, cafe etc. Cleaning and clearing wastes will make it a better place to work.
With so many critical maintenance work items which determines the plant output. One critical maintenance activity missed might bring the whole plant down, so its always good to have a cmms software to manage the schedule and keep track of each and every maintenance activity. A well implemented cmms software for a plant will result in improved productivity gains.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Role of CMMS Software
In general the role of Computer Maintenance Management Software (CMMS ) encompasses the entire maintenance spectrum helping maintenance and facility managers across the organisation to take effective control of facilities, assets, equipments and maintenance operations and lower the total cost of maintenance.
Main challenge of today’s businesses is do more with less. The only way to acheive this is through better work processes, skilled employees and enabling technology. CMMS software is one tool that can genuinely enable your organization to meet the goals.
10 to 30% reduction in maintenance related expenditures is acheived/claimed by organizations that successfully implement CMMS software and its supporting processes. Factor in, the lost opportunity due to equipment or asset failures and the potential liability of safety related failures, it is plain to see the value behind even a large scale CMMS software implementations.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Hotfix for 6.0 ~ Release Announcement
Dear Users,
Hot Fix Download
New users can directly download the exe file of the product from the following link:
Product Download
What's New?? From build 6000...
- Asset booking with booking calendar
- My bookings view in home page for both meetings and assets
- Support for Pop3S and IMAPS
- AD login for craftperson
- Revamped asset details page
Below are the issue fixed in the build 6001:
- Listing of asset additional fields in listview is fixed
- Issues in Preventive Maintenance Calendar is fixed
- Additional fields issue in create space is fixed
- Issue related to booking meeting room is fixed
- Category not getting replaced in templates is fixed
Many more trivial issues were also fixed apart from these to improve the working of FacilitiesDesk. Hope you now have excellent usability experience.
As always all your feedback are welcome.
Happy Facility Management!
For support please Contact:
US : +1 888 720 9500
Intl: +1 925 924 9500
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Model your Space in your Facilities Management System for easy asset management and tracking of space optimization with FacilitiesDesk 6
Dear All,
Its indeed a pleasure to let you know that, we have unveiled FacilitiesDesk 6 (Download Now!)
Let me walk you through the interesting benefits of the release...
Space Modeling:
FacilitiesDesk now offers the flexibility to model your space details based on property type (ex: building, stadium, airport etc..) and add details of all your facilities across different locations.
Define your space details up to three levels of hierarchy based on the space type. For example, if space type is building which will be level 1 then, the floor and room will be level 2 and 3 respectively.
Get clarity in understanding your infrastructure better especially with already available AutoCAD integration and hence improve space optimization and management.
Vendor Management
Decrease your workload on the asset management and maintenance. The Vendor Management screen gives details of all the vendors your company deals with.
Each of the vendor details gives comprehensive information like all the assets sold by the vendor, the asset details, asset maintenance and asset lease contracts associated with the vendor and all the Purchase order history relevant to this vendor.
This one shot information helps your facilities department in evaluating the vendor and his transactions and hence proceed with decision making like continuing with the vendor, assets purchase that needs to be stopped or increased with a particular vendor, etc.
And...
FacilitiesDesk allows facilities management personnel to pull out the apt “Maintenance checklist and safety tips” from the KnowledgeBase for a known planned maintenance task or while resolving popular breakdown maintenance issue for an asset.
The planning of schedules for preventive maintenance of assets is enhanced. Now plan your preventive maintenance with “start and end dates” in your usual daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedules. Also chart your maintenance schedules on desired days of a month, ex: second Saturday or third Sunday of the chosen month.
With this release we offer craft personnel logins for separate licenses bought based on number of staffs
Thats from our news table..hope to serve you better and better..
Happy Facilities Management!
Team FacilitiesDesk
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