Meeting Announcement

August 15, 2001

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 Atlanta Chapter 42 MONTHLY Meeting

Wednesday AUGUST 15^th

Why a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)?

Benefits possible from a CMMS may include:

·         Improved Work Control:  Better work management with improved control of work requests by craft, monitoring of backlogs, determining priorities and better scheduling decisions for overtime.

·         Improved Planning and Scheduling:  The systems and procedures to establish a more effective day-to-day maintenance planning and scheduling process contribute to improved craft labor utilization and customer service. 

·         Enhanced Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (PM/PdM):  Automatic scheduling of repetitive PM activities with PM tasks and inspection frequencies documented on the PM module and printed as part of the PM work order.

·         Improved Parts Availability:  Well-organized stockrooms with accurate inventory records, a stock locator system, stock levels and a storeroom catalog can significantly improve the overall maintenance operation.  Having the right part at the right time is the key to effective maintenance planning, increased maintenance customer service and reduced downtime. 

·         Improved MRO Materials Management:  The means for more effective management and control of maintenance parts and material inventories.  Information for decisions on inventory reduction is readily available to identify parts usage, excess inventory levels and obsolete parts.

·         Improved Reliability Analysis:  The means to track work order and equipment history data related to types of repairs, frequencies and causes for failure.  It allows maintenance to have key information on failure trends that leads to eliminating root causes of failures and to improving overall equipment reliability.

·         Increased Budget Accountability:  Provides for greater accountability for craft labor and parts/materials through the work order and storeroom inventory modules.  Increased level of control, greater visibility and accountability of the overall maintenance budget by individual piece of equipment and by using department or work order.

·         Increased Capability to Measure Performance and Service: A vast source of maintenance information to allow more effective measurement of maintenance performance and service to provide measurement of improvements in areas such as craft labor productivity, PM compliance, downtime, store inventory control, backlog, level of maintenance, service, reliability, etc.

·         Increased Level of Maintenance Information:  A major benefit of CMMS comes from developing the historical database that becomes readily available as critical maintenance information.  An effective CMMS helps turn data into information for use in managing maintenance as an internal business.

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PRESENTATION BY

 MRO Software Inc
 Ms. Tina Scott
Two Ravinia Drive, Suite 1205
Atlanta, GA ZIP 30346
(770) 481-3080

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY

Charles C. Pineo
Vice President
SoftSols (North America), Inc.
3404 Doral Lane
Woodstock, GA 30189-6142 
Telephone (770) 516-7433  

LOCATION

Crowne Plaza Atlanta Airport
1325 Virginia Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30344
Tel (404) 768-6660
Fax (404) 762-9675
Web Site  http://www.crowneplaza.com/atlanta-airport

AGENDA
Registration 11:00 AM-11:30 AM

Buffet lunch 11:30 - 12:30

Presentation 12:00 – 1:00

Networking with attendees 1:00 – 2:00 (optional)

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Space is limited – so register early