CMMS/EAM Software Review
Pressures from the real world are driving computerized maintenance management/enterprise asset management (CMMS/EAM) software vendors to rethink and revise not only their products, but how they can help users actually achieve a larger portion of the potential they shrink-wrap in every package.
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More than ever, CMMS/EAM vendors need you, their clients, to succeed. Many have identified room for improvement and are focusing their efforts on four key areas: industry specialization, implementation, integration and functionality. The changes they wrought have prompted us to revise and expand the Plant Services CMMS/EAM Software Review, our detailed hands-on comparison of current offerings.
This new version of the review allows you to decide just how in-depth you want to be in controlling product comparisons, from simple browsing of vendor survey data to creating customized scores for each product based on the aspects most important to you.
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The Plant Services CMMS/EAM Software Review is designed to allow you to compare packages across a comprehensive range of capabilities. It offers the option of weighting capabilities to reflect their importance in your application and receiving a calculated ranking of the software offerings according to your specifications.
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As the “Introduction” screen explains, you can use the Review to simply browse the results of our verified vendor survey data, compare products and find further information on particular packages and vendors. Or, you can have the system rank packages according your customized and advanced criteria. Clicking on “Software Aspects” lets you weight them individually so the comparison engine can calculate scores and present packages according to how well their strengths match your weightings.
Clicking on an individual software aspect in the “Introduction” screen brings you to a “Priorities” screen, which shows the exact survey questions used to establish the package score for that aspect. Exercising your option to rank a question less than “very important” factors its score so it has less weight in the calculated comparison.
You can hand-pick packages and compare them for various aspects, or enter weightings and priorities and click “calculate” to bring you to the comparison screen. Here, you’ll see a side-by-side comparison detailing the level of functionality for each capability.
View Plant Services previous CMMS/EAM reviews
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2008 CMMS/EAM Software Review Spot emerging trends, find your best choices. |
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Power up a winner: 2009 CMMS/EAM Software Review How to find the right asset management system for your plant. |
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Key trends drive CMMS/EAM: 2006 CMMS/EAM Software Review Define, refine and source your requirements using our 2006 Software Review. |
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To the last byte: 2007 CMMS/EAM Software Review Our 2007 CMMS/EAM Software Review is your guide to a five-star experience. |
Meet David Berger, Plant Services' resident CMMS/EAM expert
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David Berger, a Certified Management Consultant (C.M.C.) registered in Ontario, Canada, is a Principal of Western Management Consultants, based in the Toronto office. Mr. Berger has written more than 200 articles on a variety of topics such as maintenance management, operations management, information technology, e-commerce, organizational design, and strategy. In Plant Services magazine, he has written a monthly column for the past 14 years on maintenance management in the United States, as well as three very extensive reviews of maintenance management systems available in North America.
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CMMS best practices
Specification
- Growing your own CMMS
- CMMS software goes head-to-head
- Does plant size matter?
- The vendor evaluation process
- The 15 key selection criteria
- Configuring the CMMS
- Surveying CMMS users
- Keys to success with CMMS
Focused features
- How mobile technology gets more out of a CMMS
- The basics of e-procurement
- Seven steps to using your CMMS to manage the supply chain
- Barcode basics
- What can CMMS specialization do for you?
- CMMS can reach beyond manufacturing, machinery, tools and equipment
- Must have CMMS features
- Know the capability of your knowledge management tools
- Simulation software: An important tool for modeling maintenance work
Implementation
- Achieve smooth data transfer with system integration
- Getting the most out of your CMMS
- The post-implementation review
Optimization
- Measuring risk versus reward in CMMS
- Four-part series: Leveraging the metrics
- Establishing the environment: Complement your CMMS with the right elements
- Use sound reasoning to determine maintenance best practices
- The best practices project
Maintenance management
- Safety and the CMMS
- Lean operations: Use all that CMMS data
- Get a grasp on HR issues in the plant
- Clean up shop with CMMS
- Control the life cycle: Stick to a capital asset management plan
- Tips on using your CMMS to resolve organizational issues
- Tips for handling the delicate issue of labor standards
- Staying ahead with total productive maintenance
- Best practices start with training
- Use video to enhance your CMMS
Beyond maintenance management
- Managing knowledge via CMMS
- Be sure to look at the MRO chain for additional efficiencies
- Maintenance optimization and your plant
- Staying up to date with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Securing the CMMS and its contents
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CMMS/EAM white papers
Building the digital foundation for enterprise O&M solutions
With the advent of FDT/DTM technology, process manufacturers’ options for monitoring and managing field devices over digital and wireless networks are wide open.
Industrial Ethernet
The use of Industrial Ethernet in the manufacturing environment is increasingly becoming a viable way of interconnecting the machines on the plant floor with users in the office, as well as with each other.
Intelligent information management
This paper will discuss how refiners can optimize their information management by changing their business processes and adding additional applications, while not putting any additional data collection or management burden on operations.
The link between automation KPIs and enterprise KPIs
This seven-page paper explains how keeping up to date with your short-term automation KPIs can greatly affect your long-term enterprise KPIs.
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CMMS products
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