| The strategic goal of any production and utilities | | | | management to make decisions about the purchase |
| department is to maximize production. Machinery and | | | | of equipment by providing data and analysis of the |
| equipment is run continuously, or in batches. The | | | | cost of managing the assets, and by providing data |
| equipment can be complex, as in nuclear reactors, or | | | | about the vendor and analysis of the equipment |
| as simple as lathe machines. The goal to maximize | | | | provided by various vendors.At the operations level, |
| production is determined by the availability of the | | | | equipment MMS helps manage the maintenance |
| equipment and its condition.The strategic goal of the | | | | schedule of the equipment. The software helps in the |
| maintenance department servicing production and | | | | preventive and predictive maintenance by analyzing |
| utilities departments is to ensure the reliability and | | | | the historic data of the previous maintenance work |
| availability of the machines. The operational goals of | | | | orders. It also helps decide the availability of the |
| the maintenance department require availability and | | | | equipment and the duration of the work. An |
| scheduling of employees for work orders, maintaining | | | | integrated solution helps in optimizing the inventories |
| inventories for the parts, and the analysis of | | | | by determining the parts usage and reorder |
| maintenance-related problems.Equipment maintenance | | | | time.Equipment MMS is ideally suited for small and |
| management software helps achieve the strategic | | | | medium-sized enterprises for which the entire |
| and operational goals of a maintenance organization. | | | | integrated solutions may be very expensive. The |
| These software packages are available as | | | | decision to install equipment MMS should be guided by |
| stand-alone applications customized for specific | | | | the requirements of the organizations and the |
| requirements, or integrated end-to-end solutions.At | | | | features of the software. |
| the strategic level, equipment MMS helps top | | | | |