Key Questions
The following key questions are answered in this module:
What is workflow management?
In any organization where it is necessary to maintain electro-mechanical equipment, or buildings and their associated systems. It is also necessary to carefully plan preventive, corrective and reactive maintenance activities that need to take place. This is known as workflow management.
What are the benefits of incorporating workflow management?
Utilizing workflow management within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), will result in higher department efficiency and better financial management by: managing spare parts, assigning technicians to jobs in which they are familiar or have been properly trained, correctly prioritizing work, and applying "lessons learned" from previous maintenance activities.
What is predictive maintenance?
Predictive maintenance is a method of actually "predicting" when a component or piece of equipment will fail, based on the manufacturer's history, as well as the field history for that component or equipment. One of the primary benefits of a CMMS system is that it can automatically generate predictive and preventive work orders at any predetermined time interval.
What is a job plan?
A job plan is a checklist of maintenance tasks associated with a Preventive Maintenance ticket.
What is facility condition assessment?
Facility condition assessment refers to evaluating building equipment based on criteria including criticality, condition, life cycle and repair costs.