Custodian CMMS equipment maintenance software: ideal for municipalities

Municipalities benefit heavily from Custodian CMMS.

Asset management is a must for businesses in many industries, including municipalities. With all the data that require handling, municipalities need strong equipment maintenance software for better decision making and efficient work management. This is where Custodian CMMS comes in. This powerful computerized maintenance software is essential for many business needs, including identification of improvement opportunities and optimization of maintenance strategies.

Helping people perform complex activities

As in all industries, positive maintenance actions in municipalities are triggered by people who understand how their functions are essential for machinery and system health. Asset management required people to perform complex activities as part of a bigger picture, activities that should always be a priority. Custodian CMMS equipment management software is the perfect tool to help municipal employees accomplish this quickly and efficiently.

Utilities, especially water, are a perfect example of where equipment maintenance software is a significant boon. Water utilities need to move from paper-based reactive work orders to a planned electronic maintenance strategy to achieve 12-18 per cent in cost savings. There are other good reasons to implement a CMMS, such as reducing the cost of work orders (by choosing predictive maintenance over reactive maintenance), adjusting maintenance strategies to prolong asset life, and leveraging the existing workforce while justifying staffing needs.

A water utility or public-works department needs to take several factors into consideration when selecting a CMMS as part of an overall asset-management program. The key is to conduct a survey of current practices, such as business, work-order, asset-tracking, and commissioning processes. One must also document other systems with which the software must integrate.

Basic CMMS functionality includes asset inventory, service requests and work orders, preventive-maintenance tasks and schedules, inventory management and purchasing, condition and risk analysis, assessment and renewal planning, data analytics, reporting, and documentation. Many technical requirements of CMMS selection can align the platforms and software versions to simplify integration and data migration.

With Custodian CMMS, managing a municipality gets far easier.

To learn more, contact Custodian.

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