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Affordable Computerized
Maintenance Management
Solutions (CMMS)
Gabi Miles
Hach Company
May 22, 2009
Why Have a Maintenance
Strategy
• Helps to manage your time
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Plan when you do jobs
Keep a record of what you do
Stay organized
Improved system reliability
• Helps you save money!
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Reduce down time (fix before it breaks)
Meet regulatory compliance
Better inventory management
Increase the residual value of your equipment
Maintenance System Options
• Manage maintenance department
manually
• Automate the management of the
maintenance department
• Automate Asset Management and
Maintenance
Manual Method
Uses spreadsheets, 3x5 cards, paper calendars to
manage the maintenance schedule
• Pro:
– Very easy to implement
– Inexpensive
• Con:
– Reduces likelihood of implementing a rigorous
maintenance schedule
– Potential unscheduled down time increases costs
– Paper work to manage – file, track, lose?
– Summary reports are very difficult to do
Some Potential CMMS ROIs*
• CMMS users gain productivity: ~28%
• Inventory reduction: ~18%
• Downtime reduction: ~20%
• Maintenance labor reduction: ~ 10% to 40%
• Energy cost savings: 5% to 10%
• Project Management efficiency increase: ~5%
• Increase equipment value for resale: ~10% to 20%
*various studies
Asset & Maintenance
Management
A computer program with a wide range of capabilities for
an organization’s maintenance operations.
• Pro:
– A comprehensive tool with lots of features
– Ideal for finance and asset managers
• Con:
– Over 60% of implementations fail!
– Typically require big changes
– Costly ~ 50K+ to $4.5M
– Complex systems: garbage in – garbage out
Example: DATASTREAM
Automate the Maintenance
Department
A computerized maintenance management program for
maintenance operations
• Pro:
– Simplicity of features focused on the maintenance
department
– Easy to setup, learn and use
• Con:
– Not well suited for large organizations with complex
needs
Features of an Automated
Solution
Designed for maintenance people
Easy, cost effective maintenance scheduling
solution
Easy to use calendar
Tracks details that matter to maintenance
Provides instructions, equipment drawings
and pictures.
Stays with a familiar format and simple process
Provides maintenance and business information
It Should Work the Way You Do!
• You put your jobs
on a calendar.
• You check them
off when they are
done.
• You record the
work in the
equipment card
file...
Interactive, Color-coded
Calendar
• A simple calendar easily manipulated
• Flexible scheduling of preventative work orders
• Track corrective work orders
Generate Work Orders
• Incorporate
graphics, detailed
instructions,
manuals
• Print for all or just
for specific workers
• Add as many details
as you need
• Use portables for
accuracy and
flexibility
Document Your Work
• Document what
you need to:
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Who
What
Parts used
Parts cost
Labor hours
Generate Maintenance and
Business Reports
• Equipment
History
• Top Ten
List
• Open work
orders
• Equipment
list
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Consider Ease of Set Up
• Flexibility
• Security
• Link to
SCADA
CMMS Options: What’s The
Best Fit?
• Manage maintenance department
manually
• Automate the management of the
maintenance department
• Automate Asset Management and
Maintenance
CMMS Options: What’s The
Best Fit?
• Organizational
needs
– IT needs
– Purchasing
– Finance (asset mgmt)
• Comfort with
computer systems
• Facility size
Water Information Management Solutions
Lab Data
• LIMS
• Benchsheets
• Commercial Lab
Process data
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SCADA / Historian
OPC, MODBUS, etc
Dataloggers
Operator logs
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Portables
Log sheets
Secure
Central Storage
Accurate, useful
information
Useable, Actionable,
Reportable, Supportable
Calculation
Engine
Field data
Other
• CMMS
• USGS
• EPA
Third Party
• Commercial Lab
• Engineering Firms
Compliance &
Verification
Engine
Dashboards
What Is Water Information Management?
Quickly generate & submit reports:
• built-in regulatory templates and wizards
• built-in calculations
Helps you make immediate, informed decisions :
• streamlined reporting with intelligent alerts
• enhanced graphing & charting tools
Using accurate data:
• automatically collected from (SCADA, LIMS, Commercial Lab,
Portable devices, Excel, etc)
• manually entered (log sheets, etc)
• downloaded from dataloggers