CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Abstract

Manufacturing industries are concentrating on increasing productivity, reducing downtime, reducing maintenance and operation costs, and ultimately achieving profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability. These goals can be achieved through the application of maintenance management package like Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in the industry for automating maintenance activities. CMMS is a maintenance software for handling all types of maintenance activities in the manufacturing industry. But there are several challenges with the implementation of CMMS in any organization. In this paper, nine barriers concerned with the CMMS are identified through literature and the possible solutions are suggested to address these barriers for the smooth functioning of CMMS. to determine the barriers and solutions lead to the multiple advantages of implementing CMMS in industries. The benefits may vary for different industries.