Industrial Maintenance Management Software

Industries spend nearly $1 trillion annually toaerospace, automobiles and mining and service
maintain their operations, assets and equipment.industries have assets worth billions of dollars. The
According to IBM business consulting services,bottom line of these industries depends upon the
maintenance costs alone represent 20 to 40utilization of assets, increasing productivity and
percent of operating costs, and this has raised analso enhancing the lifespan of the assets.
average of 10 to 15 percent per year.TheComputerized maintenance management systems
evolution of industrial MMS can be traced back toserve these purposes.CMMS is composed of
the 1960s. The focus on the reduction ofnetworks and software modules. The software
inventory led to the customized softwaremodules are customized and designed for various
package as part of the MRP (materials resourceaspects of maintenance management, like
planning) program, the MRPII (which focused onequipment data management, predictive and
the manufacturing in terms of financialpreventive maintenance planning, maintenance,
management) and the ERP systems, whichrepair and operations (MRO), parts and services
integrated the entire enterprise.Then came theprocurement, employee management and asset
enterprise asset management (EAM) systems, inperformance analysis.Most MMS implementations
which the focus is on managing assets throughfail due to a mismatch between the features of
the entire life cycle. EAM encompasses all stagesthe software and the business processes. Hence,
of the asset life cycle right from the planning,it does not necessarily mean that implementation
design, purchase, install, operate, maintain andalone will solve the problems related to
disposal stages. Maintenance managementmaintenance. Top management involvement and
software for all types of equipment form athe end user familiarity with the software also
subset of EAM.Capital-rich industries likedictate the success of the system.