CMMS Boosts Sustainability
By Eve
CMMS software can be a powerful tool in your business arsenal. Not only can it help you organize, maintain, and track your assets, but it can also improve your business sustainability goals. In this blog, we’ll highlight how a CMMS can be a pivotal tool to help your business achieve sustainability.
All industries are facing continued pressure to lower costs and increase sustainability. With more uncertain times ahead, especially for businesses with international supply or production chains, CMMS can help more than ever.
How Does a CMMS Work?
A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) helps you store information about your maintenance equipment. This includes information such as the equipment’s use, service record, location, and maintenance requirements.
A CMMS can also help streamline the accessibility, use, and servicing of equipment by centralizing all relevant information into one system, making it much easier to keep equipment well-maintained.
Achieving Sustainability with CMMS
CMMS plays a key role in enhancing sustainability by optimizing resource allocation and preventing waste. It improves energy efficiency and reduces resource consumption by ensuring equipment operates at peak performance.
Extending asset life spans promotes the responsible use of high-impact equipment while minimizing the need for repairs or replacements. Additionally, optimizing transportation lowers costs and reduces environmental impact, making operations more sustainable and profitable.
Responsibility
Sustainability boils down to being less wasteful and stewarding the finite resources available on Earth. While we all have a part to play, many businesses can have a high impact on the environment, such as energy, transportation, and construction.
These fields, among others, have an obligation to reduce waste wherever possible and can strongly benefit from implementing a CMMS. For example, more efficient scheduling can reduce gas consumption, and proper maintenance of energy infrastructure can reduce power consumption.
Whether it’s organization, resource allocation, or servicing, a CMMS can be very helpful in optimizing maintenance structures across many different fields.
Profit
Of course, sustainability has its perks, too. By being more efficient, you can effectively cut costs on equipment, transportation, and repairs. It’s an actualization of the saying to “do it right the first time.” Put simply, if you have a detailed log of repair history for your equipment and conduct regularly scheduled maintenance, your equipment will work more efficiently and last longer.
In addition to the sustainability benefits, lowering maintenance costs across the board can improve profitability.
How to Implement a CMMS for Sustainability
Optimizing your maintenance hierarchy might seem like a pipe dream, especially if you are just getting started. Implementing a CMMS properly is an investment, but it’s a powerful step toward improved sustainability. Here’s how you can start to implement a CMMS in your business.
Find the Right System
Many CMMS programs are dinosaurs and can take days, even weeks, to implement. That’s probably time you don’t have, so you should carefully consider your CMMS options before investing. Some programs offer free trials, which can be helpful to test how intuitive they are. A good CMMS should have these qualities:
Quick Implementation
A CMMS should be intuitive and take minutes to get started, not days or weeks.
Setup Support
A good CMMS should be backed with setup support to help you and your team get started.
Asset Tracking
Fundamentally, a CMMS should track assets, including their location, current condition, and service history.
Maintenance and Auditing
A CMMS should let you create maintenance and equipment hierarchies with auditing. This means having scheduled corrective maintenance, preventative maintenance, and maintenance requests.
Work Order Tools
Work order tools should help you request, plan, manage, automate, and track equipment work orders.
Progress Reports
To make sure the work gets done, a CMMS should give real time progress reports so that you can keep track of the work as it happens.
Mobile Support
Mobile support lets you add, update, and track work orders on the go.
Scalable Infrastructure
Lastly, a CMMS should scale your business and be ready to ramp up when you need it for any business, any size.
Evaluate Your Needs
Different businesses may use other features of a CMMS, so the first step to make sure you get the most out of one is to evaluate your needs. Do you need improved inventory management? Do you need to schedule lots of regular work orders? Do you need to coordinate with your team to transport, service, and use equipment?
A CMMS can help you with all these needs, but understanding how you intend to implement it will help you be successful. Specifically, you should know the fundamentals of a CMMS, how to coordinate its use internally with your organization, and how to make your own integrations. You can always talk with an expert or get support to learn more about CMMS integration.
Implement the System
Once you know how to evaluate a CMMS for quality, weighed against your unique business goals, you’re ready to implement it into your business. Here’s how:
Subscribe to a CMMS service provider
Set up your first asset
Familiarize yourself with work order tools and filters
Create a hierarchy of assets
Schedule preventive and corrective maintenance
Tailor the system to your unique business needs
Grow your business!
Of course, you can always reach out to the support team to make sure your implementation covers everything you need. For example, you may also need inventory add-ons or timesheet add-ons. Remember to coordinate with your team and CMMS provider to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Maintainly: A Different CMMS
Maintainly takes the traditional CMMS functionality and makes it intuitive, accessible and effective. With straightforward tools to manage your assets, inventory, people, and analytics, sustainable maintenance has never been easier. To learn more or try a free trial, get started online today.
