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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