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MRO Inventory as an Integral Part of a CMMS
by Richard Frazier, EnteGreat
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Paper Overview
Many companies currently use Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to great advantage. These systems assist with both preventative and corrective maintenance tasks and they facilitate the coordination of the Planned Maintenance (PM) schedule with the production schedule. In all of these cases, the CMMS ensures that the right personnel are available at the times needed, whether it is planned and preventative maintenance or emergency and corrective maintenance. However, no maintenance task can be successfully completed, if the needed parts are not available. The inability to have the right part in the right place, at the right time, can undermine the best maintenance programs. The key to avoiding this problem is a function included in some CMMS packages, called the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) inventory function. The MRO inventory function not only provides a way of guaranteeing that parts are available when needed, it can also play a significant role in reducing inventory costs, purchasing costs, and costs associated with equipment downtime. The ability of the MRO inventory function to support maintenance in this critical way, and its potential to reduce costs indicate that it should be an integral part of every CMMS package.
About the Author
Richard Frazier has over 30 years of experience working with many different types of hardware and software in a variety of different manufacturing industries including Food and Beverage, Pulp and Paper, Life Sciences and Iron and Steel. Richard has extensive experience in the creation, integration, implementation, maintenance and support of systems as well as in maintenance processes and operations. His expertise in the development of business requirements, functional requirements, and technical specifications for purchased commercial-off-the-shelf software, as well as implementation/deployment of systems in shop floor environments, has helped people throughout the industry gain a better understanding of manufacturing systems integration within the Enterprise IT environment.
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