The reports started coming in during the third shift set. The production was low for at least three of the machines in room 4, and half of the tools that were being produced were malformed. You wake up in the morning to a long list of emails that grow more and more frantic towards morning.

As the VP of Manufacturing, it is your responsibility to track down both the source of the problem as well as to find a solution to correct it, and fast. As you shrug on your coat and grab your keys, you call your Maintenance Manager at the site and find out what’s been happening. He informs you that the defective machines have been shut down, and the reports have been pulled from each piece of equipment and are on your desk. You know that the CMMS Maintenance Software system that the plant relies on will provide some answers to the problem.

You rush to the car, relieved that the errors have been stopped, but also highly aware that the production has been as well, which puts you even farther behind deadline for your clients’ orders than you already were. With your production profits riding on you making your deadline, it is imperative that you find the source of the problem and correct it immediately.

Getting to the office, you tell you assistant that you will be out on the floor and not available for calls. You grab the reports that were created with your CMMS Maintenance Software, and walk quickly to meet with your foreman at the site of the first machine breakdown.

You can see the defect in the products immediately, and as you scan the report, you see that the initial problem started around midnight. Production was stopped around 12:30 during the hourly rounds.

A CMMS Maintenance Software system is the crux of any plants ability to run effectively. Production rates, down times and prospective problems can all be monitored at any time to ensure the highest productivity. From the perspective of the aforementioned VP of Manufacturing, these details are vital to the functionality of any manufacturing business.