Monday, November 28, 2011

Know Desktop Based CMMS

By Lima Gonna


The software called the CMMS or Computerized Maintenance Management System, allows the companies to keep track of the maintenance that has been done, or can schedule work needing to be done in the future. This software also allows the companies to track the cost of repairs as well as to integrate a variety of preventive maintenance techniques. In your company, you can implement the CMMS software in two different ways.

Implementing the CMMS software into a maintenance department can significantly increase working efficiency. At first, applying the software can be confusing, especially for the maintenance departments that haven't used CMMS software before. Most of the time, consultants and agencies are brought in to ensure the process goes smoothly and that all users are comfortable with using the CMMS software.

The second way that CMMS software is implemented is the desktop or network approach. The way that the desktop approach is typically implemented by allowing the company that requires the use of the CMMS software to have all control over the hardware and software. The implementation and the maintenance of this system is done by the company's IT department. The disadvantages of a desktop based approach seem to outweigh the advantages, as though there are some advantages and disadvantages to each approach.

For desktop implementation, its access is one of a major disadvantage of it. If you recall, a web-based CMMS allows you to access the servers from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection. This is not applicable with a desktop configuration. You can only access when you are on your companies network, and this is in the case of having a desktop. In a desktop configuration, another major disadvantage is the high initial costs associated with making this work.

Remember, with a hosted CMMS approach, a third party maintains the server hardware that is required to run the CMMS software. You are not responsible to fix the server hardware in the case where something goes wrong, and it eventually will. Not so with having a desktop configuration. If anything happens to the hardware or software that runs on your company servers, your company pays to have it fixed, this is true if you have a desktop approach, not to mention the higher start up costs associated with the desktop approach as you have to buy the hardware and software yourself.




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