CMMS Software: 15 questions of work order to help your CMMS search.

There are lots of CMMS software available now a days. So which one to choose. This tips might help us to make a better choise. From previous article we have seen how to have a good feature to control preventive maintenance activity. Next thing is how can it be use to produce work order to our maintenance personel.

CMMS Work Order.

1. CMMS software can produce work order easily and friendly and features can easily be upgraded to better and improve version in future.

2. Work order classifies all work by some kind of repair reason code: Preventive Maintenance (PM), corrective maintenance, breakdown maintenance, management decision, etc.

3. Provides and easy way for a single person or designated group in maintenance to screen work orders entered by customers before authorization that work can begin.

4. Prints up-to-date lockout procedure on all work orders automatically.

5. Automatically costs work orders.

6. Provides status of all outstanding work orders.

7. Records service calls (who, what, when, where, how) which can be printed in a log format with automated time/date stamping.

8. Allows operations people, tenants or facility users to have access to the system to find out what happened to their work request.

9. Records backlog of work and displays it by craft.

10. Work orders can be displayed or printed very easily.

11. The system facilitates labor scheduling with labor standards by task, ability to sort, and re-sort the open work orders by location of work, craft and other ways.

12. Records changes to inventory (receipts, chargeouts, physical inventories).

13. Does the storeroom part of the system have part location to help the mechanic or store keeper find infrequently used parts?

14. Can the system generate a parts catalog by type of part, vendor with yearly usage to facilitate blanket contract negotiation?

15. Does the system recommend stock levels, order points, order quantities?

Previous article:

8 questions of preventive maintenance.

Author : Joel LevittThis article is an extract from Joel Levitt’s book, The Handbook of Maintenance Management, and is kindly reprinted with his permission, and with the permission of his publishers, Industrial Press, Inc.. The book may be purchased through the Plant Maintenance Resource Center web site, in association with amazon.com. For more information, click here.

CMMS Software.