In general, maintenance falls into two categories: reactive and proactive. Reactive maintenance focuses on repairing an asset once failure occurs. Proactive maintenance, however, focuses on avoiding repairs and asset failure through preventive and predictive methods. CMMS software has become more robust and financially available to businesses of all types and sizes. Naturally, this is making […]
December 23, 2015
CMMS: What It Does and Why It Matters
How does your organization handle maintenance? Is there a filing cabinet designated for equipment information? Do you run your assets until failure? Are parts available when you need them? For almost 70 years, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) have been shifting companies from reactive to proactive maintenance. However, many organizations have either not caught on to the […]
December 21, 2015
CMMS vs. EAM: What’s the Difference?
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software have the same purpose. So they must be the same thing, right? Not exactly. Both solutions have the same goals of maintaining, managing and protecting company assets by streamlining and automating maintenance management, inventory management, work order generation and scheduling. And both shift organizations from a […]
