Key features and benefits

Key features

• Create and maintain maintenance procedures by managing templates
• Plan and schedule maintenance work
• Predictive and condition-based maintenance
• Define maintenance and shutdown calendars
• Manage the loading and time of maintenance resources
• Manage the storeroom, including spare parts inventory, stock, and deliveries
• Allocate materials to maintenance work
• Auto-generate maintenance work based on time, counts, and events
• Perform maintenance work with step-by-step images, guides, and documents
• Raise maintenance requests for the maintenance planner
• Enable maintenance work to be performed from mobile devices
• Upload photos and videos from mobile devices to send to the planner
• Enable operators to view planned maintenance work and existing maintenance requests
• Enable operators to complete autonomous maintenance work such as cleaning, lubrication, and safety checks
• Perform quality checks on assets, including calibration tests
• Maintenance performance dashboard for detailed insights, exception handling, and conformance
• Manage the maintenance budget for the period and breakdown into materials, labor, and external suppliers

Benefits

Reduce costs

• Schedules based on usage ensure that maintenance is being performed only when required
• Reducing the number of breakdowns due to asset quality increases the available run time and OEE
• Properly maintained equipment leads to a higher quality of materials being produced, and therefore improves OEE
• Monitor performance for continuous improvement and cost savings
• Real-time view of the maintenance budget and spending breakdown

Improve planning

• Full visibility of the maintenance work on the maintenance planner dashboard
• Allocate materials to maintenance orders in advance
• Link related maintenance orders together
• Opportunity-based planning when production is down
• Full asset maintenance history to assist planning
• Track response and repair times for continuous improvement

Improve communication

• Everyone can see what is being done, who is doing it, what is waiting, and why
• Always provide the latest asset documentation and maintenance procedures
• Facilitate mobility of maintenance teams around the plant with a mobile maintenance application
• Improve communication between production and maintenance, reducing response times
• Production can see maintenance requests raised on previous shifts and are alerted when maintenance plan the work

Reduce reactive maintenance

• Pre-emptively maintain or refurbish tools and assets before they degrade
• MES records the number of pieces the asset has produced and the number of cycles the asset has been used for, providing visibility of when assets are due for repairs
• A reduction in the number of breakdowns due to asset quality reduces the load on the maintenance department
• MES automatically detects events to trigger maintenance requests before the issue impacts production

ERP connectivity

• Upload maintenance work costs to ERP
• Download spare parts from ERP to manage in MES
• Upload spare parts used to ERP