Effective asset management is key to optimizing operational efficiency and equipment reliability. This article explores how advanced CMMS tools streamline asset management, enhancing maintenance prioritization and asset tracking.
Implications from asset management
The maintenance department plays a vital role in all organizations and is concerned, among other things, with improving assets availability and reliability. Maintenance management is complex to understand and organize, and sometimes even managers fail to grasp all the subtleties of their function.
What is asset maintenance?
All the company’s fixed assets are under the charge of the maintenance team to ensure their proper functioning.
There are many types of maintenance equipment, such as machines, infrastructures, vehicles, or handling equipment. Machine components and spare parts, including the smallest ones such as screws or tools, also count.
Why classify assets by criticality?
The management always seeks to improve maintenance management.
As a maintenance manager, you must organize works according to their priority in your organization. This includes creating work orders that align with the criticality of assets, ensuring timely and cost-effective maintenance. Therefore, for your maintenance to be cost-effective, you must establish a classification of your asset by criticality.
There exist various methods in this respect, inspired mainly by the FMECA methodology (Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis). Assets in maintenance can be categorized along three levels of criticality:
- vital asset
- important asset
- secondary asset
Criticality classification should be further enriched with complementary studies such as fault trees analyses or reliability diagrams blocks.
What benefits can you expect from your improved asset maintenance?
Factoring criticality into your management may seem time-consuming and even useless at first. However, it has numerous technical and financial advantages and also improves human resources management, thanks to:
- A better knowledge of your assets
- Better management over work planning
- Improved asset availability
- Improvements in the management of spare parts inventories
- Improved working conditions and safety during maintenance works (through the implementation of maintenance task lists, etc.),
- Reduced maintenance costs
How CMMS help simplify asset management
Despite Excel files being impractical for daily tasks and CMMS perfectly adapted to solve maintenance issues, the formers are still widely used in maintenance management.
Drafting a bill of materials that anyone can understand
To quickly gain a general knowledge of your maintenance equipment, you must ensure it is presented in a way that anyone can effortlessly understand. A CMMS allows you to inventory the totality of your equipment in a visual tree structure that remains editable over time and boasts an unlimited number of levels.
Moreover, if you already have a machine fleet, a CMMS can import your old data to get started more quickly.
Improving your asset knowledge
As a maintenance manager, you need to know everything about your assets to increase their reliability and availability.
The DimoMaint CMMS provides you with an actionable database to:
- Quickly locate your assets (through BIM, QR code, Bleam scan…) and manage their associated work orders
- Learn the complete interventions history of any asset
- Ensure traceability, which is critical to proving your compliance with regulatory standards
- Efficiently manage the required spare parts in your stock
- Obtain better visibility into maintenance costs broken down by asset
Ensuring the availability of the documentation
To improve the efficiency of the maintenance department, your technicians need up-to-date and reliable documentation.
From now on, thanks to our mobile CMMS application, your technicians can carry the necessary documentation with them at all times and access it directly from the field.
Additionally, they can also consult maintenance task lists and procedures from the intervention site, thus increasing their awareness of safety protocols and lowering the risks tied to the procedure.
Ensuring a proper maintenance plan
Do you wish to improve the maintenance of your assets and set up a preventive maintenance
program?
A CMMS will help you follow your preventive maintenance program, anticipate breakdowns, and progressively decrease the proportion of corrective measures.
Predictive maintenance can be applied to your most expensive and/or critical assets by integrating alerts triggered by SCADA, MES, or other third-party solutions dedicated to analyzing your IoT data in the CMMS.
This type of maintenance will become widespread in the future, and adopting it now will support and optimize the growth of your organization.
