Plant Maintenance

Achieve consistently high product quality

Keep the Plant and Service Items running at capacity and achieve consistently high product quality, fundamental for a good business.

The Plant and the equipment used is vital to any manufacturing business, as are the Service Items that are located externally to your business at Customers, Repairers, Vendors, Contacts etc. No matter where the Plant/Service Item is, Answer Enterprise can help you to look after it.
Maintenance of the Plant itself is a cruicial factor in the manufacturing process and Answer Plant Maintenance has been designed with this in mind.

This application is one of the key modules in your CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) or EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) strategy and also form a core part of your Service Management activities.

Plant Maintenance has powerful facilities to aid Maintenance Personnel in their day-to-day activity as well as planning what should be done in the future and resolving any issues that have happened in the past.
Management have immediate and total access to all of the Maintenance Availability, Planned Usage and Cost of Repair details necessary to make informed, timely and correct decisions.

Employ a program of Preventative Maintenance (PM) Activities to be implemented in order to keep Plant Utilisation as efficient as possible.
PM Jobs are automatically triggered based on a number of frequency and/or statistical and date based options.

Define maintenance cycles to meet the most demanding items of plant.
Book and allocate costs to a piece of plant on Job Order by Job Order basis.
These costs are then automatically processed into the Answer General Ledger.
Answer Plant Maintenance will also manage Serial Tracked items of Plant that are stored, loaned and/or serviced at external locations.

Answer provides five key components:

• Preventative Maintenance (PM)
• External Location Management, which track where Plant/Service Items are located, Customers, Contacts, Vendors etc.
• Job Order Control provides the means to Plan, Schedule and Control Labour, Materials, Sub Contracts and more
• Plant Equipment History summaries the spend of Labour, Materials, Sub Contract etc and Downtime Costs associated with maintaining a given item of equipment or user defined groups of equipment
• Spare Part Inventory Control is also critical to your inventory reduction program

This module is also, optionally, fully integrated to:

• Purchase Management
• Financials, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable and General Ledger
• Answer Manufacturing
• Inventory Management

Conditions

A generic facility to define High, Mean and Low values associated with a particular Condition.
Where Low and High Values have been specified, either a PM Job or a Standard Job can be associated with these values.
Each Condition can then be associated with one or more Items of Plant or an Item of Plant can have multiple Conditions associated with it.

Condition details can be entered and logged into the system with an option to convert these to Job Orders should further activity be required.

Incidents

An incident should be considered as something normally reported by personnel who may not necessarily work within the Plant Maintenance section of a company.
An Incident may be defined as important, or merely if reported to be reviewed. Where Incidents require further action, these can be converted into Job Orders for further activity to take place.

Plant Equipment Statistics

An unlimited number of different Units of Measure can be entered and details maintained. These may be Meter Tracked Units of Measure i.e. number of litres per hour flow, or can be based on Actual or Average Statistics.
These Statistics then form one of the bases for the purpose of PM Planning.
These statistics may come from Answer Manufacturing via Resource Usage bookings or back flush resource processing.

As an integral component of Answer Enterprise ERP, Plant Maintenance integrates with Inventory Management and Purchasing, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and the Planning modules to ensure Plant Maintenance works as one with the rest of your business.

Key Features Run the plant at capacity Consistant high product quality Preventative maintenance Define maintenance cycles Linked to the general ledger

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