CMMS/EAMS Residence

The CMMS/EAMS holds the scheduled maintenance program. Scheduler-planners manage the CMMS system with a core team of senior, knowledgeable maintenance specialists. Although highly qualified, and the most knowledgeable and experienced craft at a facility, they are not reliability engineers. Many struggle with failure analysis or cost/benefit accounting skills. With the aid of data input clerks, these people manage station work management system information, including scheduled maintenance WOs. Craft workers preplan WOs with target equipment, workscopes, tagout boundaries, risks, crafts, parts, and support requirements identified. Duration and workscope time estimates are provided. As found/as left WO entry fields are provided for work documentation.

Difficult step. Uploading final PM optimization results from any improvement effort is tedious, hard work. This may be where a project ends. But this time-consuming, draining effort loads analytical results where they add value into the CMMS/EAMS. Those tasked to implement RCM optimization results may not own the process and may not even monitor their work. For these reasons, upload steps always present a project completion risk.

Assuring that optimization results get archived provides basic process credibility that any project must achieve. This milestone and upload implementation barriers considerations and their management of the related barriers should be considered before a PM optimization project of any kind starts.

Simplification methods. Workscopes assemble PM tasks for concurrent performance. Organizing tasks into workscopes eases implementation. WO tasks consolidated into workscopes present fewer station WO system demands. Many plants assign senior personnel familiar...