CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
Set up a CMMS that can be used from the first week: equipment inventory, work orders, intervention history and first indicators to get out of day-to-day maintenance.
A press stops, the spare part is ordered three days later, the available technician does not know what was replaced at the previous breakdown. The CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) is the system that records equipment, intervention requests, parts consumed and breakdown history, so that this information stops depending on one person's memory.
This course is intended for maintenance managers and technicians, team leaders and continuous improvement facilitators who manage a machine fleet without a structured tool, or with a spreadsheet that is overflowing. By the end, you will know how to build the initial inventory on a reduced scope, write and process a usable work order, keep a history that actually serves a purpose, and read the three indicators that tell you whether the fleet is becoming more reliable. The course remains at the introductory level: it does not compare software on the market and does not cover advanced configuration.
What you will be able to do
- Recognize the symptoms of maintenance managed day to day and what the CMMS concretely changes for each stakeholder: operator, technician, buyer, management.
- Build the equipment tree and the list of critical parts on a pilot scope of 5 to 10 machines, with simple coding.
- Write a work order that allows the technician to arrive with the right part, and close an intervention by recording cause, duration and parts consumed.
- Use the history to calculate MTBF, MTTR and preventive/corrective ratio, then derive the first preventive maintenance schedule from it.
- Choose between a spreadsheet and dedicated software based on a short specification, and avoid the mistakes that cause the majority of deployments to fail.
The path
- Recognizing maintenance managed day to day 4 min
- Building the initial inventory on a reduced scope 5 min
- Writing a maintenance work order and closing out an intervention 4 min
- Reading the history to move to preventive maintenance 5 min
- Spreadsheet or software: choosing without getting the project wrong 4 min
Prerequisites
Know the machine fleet of your workshop and the day-to-day operation of the maintenance team. No software or particular IT knowledge is required. Reading the OEE topic beforehand helps to link maintenance downtime and availability, without being mandatory.
The closing quiz
The topic ends with a 7-question quiz, and a certificate is issued on success.