muhammad ulil albab: How the Computer Can Help in Maintenance Management

Maintenance management is one part of other process in industry scope. The characteristic of maintenance management is a very informative-intensive process. Rapidly development of computers give an impact which is it characteristics to handle huge of information and separate of communications that must occur to get the work done. A computer-aided maintenance planning, scheduling, and control system, also referred to as a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) which known as application software to handle several tasks such as initiating work request, and planning and scheduling work orders from the approved request. Moreover, It has responsibility to handle other task for planning and scheduling which has type of repetitive orders.

Computer plays important role in Maintenance Management. For Instance, laser bar code scanners are expanding from production and warehousing to maintenance material stores.  Afterwards data management system store information about equipment operation, maintenance method and other useful data.

There are six proven principles ensure success when applied to organizing the maintenance function.

1.       Optimum Productivity Principle, Optimum productivity can reach when all of person who positioned in maintenance department has a definite job to do, in a definite way, and a definite time. The computer provides and controls implementation of this principle. It is used to plan, schedule, and assign each work order, track material, and backlog.

2.       Measurement/Control Principle, Measurement for each activity can help to control effectively. The computer stores work measurement data and provide a rapid, accurate method for applying standard times to each work order.

3.        Customer-Service Relationship Principle, Personnel of operations are the customers. They pay the bill. Maintenance provides the required service. Operation decides what is needed and when.

4.     Optimum Crew Size Principle, The optimum crew size is the smallest number of workers who can perform a job using a good, representative method in a safe way.

5.      Timeliness Principle, Computerized schedule control points are set so that potential completion delays are detected in time to take corrective action.

6.   Activity Responsibility Principle, Efficient work order control requires that management assign definite responsibility for each activity in the life of a work order.

Reference:

Zandin, K., & Maynard, H. (2004). Maynard’s Industrial Engineering Handbook (5th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.