How to successfully evaluate and implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
This seminar covers the objectives, benefits, and basic/advance features of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). The seminar discusses CMMS modules and state of the art technologies (Mobile, Bar Code, and RFID) that are used with a CMMS. It teaches the attendees how to develop system specifications for their application, how to justify, evaluate and implement a CMMS. It also teaches how to audit and optimize your current CMMS.
Seminar Outline (What you can expect to learn)
- Fundamentals of Maintenance Management
- How to turn Maintenance into a Profit Center
- Maintenance Image
- Impact of downsizing on maintenance
- Cost Center approach
- Profit Center approach
- Step by step process for profit driven Maintenance (To bridge the gap between executive and maintenance management)
- How to turn Maintenance into a Profit Center
- CMMS Overview:
- Equipment
- What equipment information is vital to you
- What kind of equipment history is needed
- When is it time NOT to spend more money on equipment repairs
- Preventive Maintenance
- Importance of PM program
- How to start a computerized PM program
- Adequate PM information & reporting system
- Work Order System
- Essential elements of a WO System
- How to start a computerized WO program
- Setting job priorities
- Time and material reporting
- Repair & work history
- Spare Parts Inventory Control
- Essential elements of a computerized inventory control system
- Understand inventory terms such as unit cost, order cost, carrying cost
- Reorder levels and how much to order
- Analyze data and create adequate reportss
- Requisition / Purchasing
- Essential elements of a Maintenance PO System
- Understand parts requisition, purchase orders and purchase history
- Multiple vendors for each part
- Blanket POs
- Partial order receipts
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- Planning for work based on available resources such as manpower, material and equipment
- Budgeting
- Overall maintenance budget
- Individual department budget
- Individual account budget
- Red flags when actual expenditure is close to the corresponding budgets
- State-of-the-art technologies applied to CMMS:
- Mobile technology
- RFID
- Bar Code, Pocket PCs…
Bar code, pocket PCs, PDA’s, etc. are very powerful hand held devices that can be interfaced with a CMMS. Learn how to use these in conjunction with:
- Work Order Systems
- Equipment
- Inventory Systems
- Purchase Order Systems
- Web based CMMS
- Access maintenance information anywhere, anytime. Works very good for multiple sites (anywhere in the world)
- Links
- Export data from CMMS to generate a variety of graphs and reports
- Graphics interface
- Attach scanned drawings, diagrams, pictures and digital images, etc. to equipment, PM, WO, inventory and POs. View and print them as needed
- How to Justify a CMMS
- Problems with a manual or existing maintenance system Attendees will be able to identify their problems such as lack of manpower, planning and machine history, spare parts NOT available when needed.
- Determine Objectives, Features and Benefits of a CMMS for your application
- Compute savings
- Document cost estimates
- Calculate return on investment (ROI)
- Set up Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Develop System Specifications
- Class/group exercise to develop system specifications. Attendees will be able to develop system specifications for their application
- How to Evaluate / Select a CMMS
- What features does a quality CMMS provide
- What is the importance of the selection process
- Why should you involve your employees
- Learn how to evaluate a CMMS using a comprehensive list of criteria
- Learn how to select the best CMMS for your organization that will work for many years
- How to implement a CMMS
- Dos and don’ts of implementing a CMMS
- How to ensure management commitment
- How to determine scope of project
- Deciding schemes for equipment number, locations etc.
- How to gather/enter data
- Develop a prototype
- Final Implementation
- Follow up/Monitor continuous improvement
- How to Audit / Optimize your CMMS
Instructor
Kris Bagadia
PEAK Industrial Solutions, LLC
PO Box 774
Brookfield, WI 53008
Phone: 262-783-6260
Fax: 262-781-9972
Email: krisb@peakis.com
Education: B.S. (M.E.), M.S. (I.E.), PE, CPE
Certification/Licenses:
- Professional Engineer (PE)
- Certified Plant Engineer (CPE) by Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE)
Experience:
After eight years of experience as a Plant Engineer and Project Manager for three different companies, Mr. Bagadia founded, a firm specializing in Computerized Maintenance consulting and training in 1980. He is owner and CEO of PEAK Industrial Solutions, providing CMMS software solutions and consulting.
Mr. Bagadia worked as a Maintenance Supervisor for about four years. He has been involved with every aspect of CMMS for over two decades, including, designing, developing, testing, selling and marketing CMMS. He understands maintenance functionality and how a CMMS can accomplish them.
Mr. Bagadia has authored several books on Computerized Maintenance and has been a contributing author of several handbooks. He has published numerous articles in technical and trade journals; he has conducted hundreds of seminars and webinars on CMMS since 1982, and is a frequent speaker for organizations such as Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Association of facilities Engineering (AFE), National Manufacturing Week, and a wide variety of universities.
He’s an accomplished speaker who makes complex, technical information easy to understand and apply
Has:
- Authored a book, “CMMS made easy” published by McGraw-Hill
- Authored a book entitled “Microcomputer Aided Maintenance Management System” published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.
- Authored a book entitled “How to Select and Justify Manufacturing Software”
- Authored a chapter in “Evolution of Computerized Maintenance Management” in the “Encyclopedia of Microcomputers”, published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.
- Authored a chapter in “Materials Handling Handbook” published by John Wiley and Sons.
- Authored several technical articles published by various journals.
FOR additional details and references, please review instructor's Portfolio
These seminars are conducted at your facility.
Plant Operations/maintenance departments are faced with technological challenges. The best way to keep them at the forefront of their fields is through a program of continuing education. The most cost-efficient and cost-effective way to accomplish this goal is in-house training.
Benefits of In-Plant Seminars
- Train all personnel at one time in one location
- Seminars can be customized to focus on the needs of the company
- Encourage cooperative problem solving
- Employees spend less time away from job and less travel expenses
- Lower costs per employee with increased productivity
- Key personnel stay on-site
- Programs presented by recognized experts in the field of CMMS
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