Repair and Maintenance with CMMS

Optimize your maintenance workflow with Maintainsoft CMMS. No matter your industry, the goal in maintenance is to ensure that equipment, tools, and infrastructure are running smoothly and efficiently, minimizing unplanned downtime and averting costly failures.

Differentiating Repair and Maintenance in CMMS

While repair and maintenance often go hand-in-hand, they serve unique roles in asset management. Repairs are necessary when an asset is broken or damaged, whereas maintenance encompasses routine tasks or corrective actions that prevent asset degradation and extend its life. Typical maintenance tasks include cleaning, inspections, and function checks, aimed at avoiding major failures.

Levels of Repair

Understanding the type of equipment failure is crucial to deciding on repair actions:

• Partial Failure: The asset is still operational but underperforming. It may pose safety risks. Timely corrective actions can restore its efficiency before a complete breakdown.
• Complete Failure: The asset is non-functional and requires comprehensive repair. Fixing these failures can be costly, leading to production delays. Fortunately, many issues can be avoided with a robust preventive maintenance strategy.

Embrace CMMS for Efficient Maintenance

Types of Maintenance Strategies

Determine the best maintenance strategy for your needs with Maintainsoft. Here are four common approaches:

• Reactive Maintenance
  • Also called breakdown maintenance, this approach fixes issues as they occur. Ideal for non-critical, low-cost equipment, it can lead to extended downtime if not managed properly.
• Preventive Maintenance
  • Proactively schedule inspections and repairs using CMMS to extend asset life and preclude breakdowns. Preventive tasks are planned, ensuring necessary resources are available.
• Predictive Maintenance
  • Leverage machine sensors and smart technology to foresee failures. CMMS can track data, enabling precise maintenance scheduling based on equipment condition.
• Reliability-centered Maintenance
  • This method analyzes potential failure modes to devise maintenance plans for each machine, enhancing equipment reliability and uptime.