Throughout the course of this article the term CMMS will apply to the maintenance module of Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Enterprise Asset Management systems and stand-alone maintenance management systems. Each year, billions of dollars will be spent, in many different countries, on implementing CMMS and enterprise level systems.
CMMS implementations follow basically the same course every time.
Yet most times there is an attempt to re-invent much of the approach. However, in general, maintenance is maintenance and apart from differing business rules the majority of the information required to set up the system will remain similar. Although the template designed by these particular organizations are specific to their needs, modern technology and the rising awareness of CMMS systems have created the opportunity for creating a generic template for all implementations. This is becoming possible through standardized coding philosophies, warehousing of often-required data and tapping into on line resources such as vendor cataloguing systems. Any template for CMMS implementation needs to have a focus on the following areas.