Computerized Maintenance Management systems

Abstract

Maintenance is at the heart of any industrial business. It is considered a contributory function to production, justified by the points gained in competitiveness and by the availability of equipment to produce more. It is therefore important to develop a strategy for improving this function and to promote ways to improve the performance of this activity by carrying out, preferably on a regular basis, a diagnosis to determine the corresponding weaknesses and strengths. As soon as we approach the maintenance of one or more fleets of equipment, we can be confronted with the following problems: a machine breaks down but the time for the supply of spare parts is a few weeks, several pieces of equipment have to be checked urgently but no one is available, the technicians assigned to maintenance complain that they too often play the role of "firefighter". These problems are symptomatic of day-to-day management.