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CMMS
11 guides
Bills of Material (BOM) Management
A Bill of Material (BOM) is a structured list of the spare parts, consumables, assemblies, and components required to maintain a specific asset.
Open resourceCMMS Data Quality
CMMS data quality is the discipline of ensuring that master data and transactional data are accurate, complete, consistent, and free of duplication, so the CMMS can reliably support planning, execution, and analysis.
Open resourceCMMS Fundamentals
A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is software used to manage maintenance work, equipment information, preventive maintenance, spare parts, labor, costs, and maintenance history.
Open resourceCMMS Governance & Administration
CMMS Governance & Administration is the process of establishing the policies, roles, standards, controls, and administrative practices required to ensure a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) remains accurate, secure, reliable, and aligned with business objectives throughout its lifecycle.
Open resourceCMMS Reporting and Analytics
Reporting and analytics is the discipline of converting CMMS and equipment history data into decision-useful information: dashboards, KPI reports, trend analyses, and ad hoc queries that support maintenance, reliability, and asset management decisions.
Open resourceEquipment Master Data
Equipment Master Data is the structured collection of information that uniquely identifies, describes, classifies, and organizes every maintainable asset within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Open resourceFailure Coding & Asset Taxonomy
Failure Coding & Asset Taxonomy is the standardized method of classifying assets, failures, causes, and corrective actions within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Open resourceJob Plan Management
Job Plan Management is the process of creating, organizing, standardizing, governing, and continuously improving reusable maintenance job plans within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Open resourcePreventive Maintenance Library Management
Preventive Maintenance (PM) Library Management is the process of creating, organizing, standardizing, governing, and continuously improving a centralized collection of preventive maintenance templates used throughout a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Open resourceSAP Maintenance Management Fundamentals
SAP maintenance management (widely known by its legacy name, SAP PM) is the set of SAP ERP/ECC and S/4HANA capabilities used to structure technical objects, plan and execute maintenance work, and integrate materials, capacity, and financial postings.
Open resourceWork Management Configuration
Work Management Configuration is the process of designing, standardizing, governing, and continuously improving the workflows, statuses, priorities, approvals, and automation used to manage maintenance work within a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
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