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What is Maintenance Management and Why is it Important?

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT IS THE EFFECTIVE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF TASKS TO PROPERLY MAINTAIN THE EQUIPMENT, VEHICLES, AND FACILITIES It spans many diverse functions and responsibilities, ranging from designing maintenance activities to providing and managing the resources needed to complete the work. TO SUCCESSFULLY PLAN MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES REQUIRES ACCURATE INFORMATION about the equipment, its components and ongoing production or workload requirements. Maintenance skills and time available must be matched against the workload and equipment availability. Parts and supplies must be procured, in advance, to ensure maintenance tasks are completed on schedule. GOOD MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT PROMOTES EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY. The following areas are examples of how a company can benefit from Maintenance Management.

• Competition
• Building Complexity
• Cost Effective
• Old Methods Provide Limited Benefits

What will Maintenance Management do for me?

When a properly applied program of automated maintenance is put into place:

• Staff and equipment operate more efficiently and cost-effectively
• Equipment failures can be anticipated and prevented
• Workloads can be balanced to correspond to available manpower
• Paperwork and communication costs are greatly reduced
• Equipment and parts costs are optimized
• Reduces unnecessary failures, and downtime
• Lowers inventory levels, carrying costs
• Easily track maintenance cost history
• Improves overall productivity
• All information is easily accessible
• Improves customer satisfaction

What can Four Winds Group do for you?

FOUR WINDS GROUP UNDERSTANDS THE PROCESS OF EFFECTIVE CMMS

We start with the most powerful, user-friendly CMMS system available; then add an experienced team to address your specific requirements to achieve a total solution.

• Respond quickly to our M-PET^® users and their changing needs
• Address a wide range of requirements and installations to provide best-fit solutions for facilities, manufacturing, government and transportation.
• Have extensive experience in applications and computer platforms from mainframe to mini-computer to personal computers to pen-based to hand-held or personal data managers.
• Have provided client solutions ranging from stand alone to full turnkey systems

In short, WE KNOW CMMS from the plant floor to the office. We help you use your M-PET^® to IMPROVE YOUR TOTAL MAINTENANCE PROCESS.

M-PET^® Core Implementation Plan

IMPLEMENTATION REQUIRES PLANNING. Our basic plan quickly and efficiently moves an organization forward with their M-PET system. OUR ADVANCED PROCESS USES A SERIES OF STEPS TO ACHIEVE A FULLY FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM.