CMMS Reporting Options

This post explains some of the basic CMMS reporting options available in MaintSmart software. CMMS software provides a useful work management function in any equipment maintenance operation. Organizing and scheduling work orders and preventive maintenance tasks is a basic feature of any CMMS solution. How well does your CMMS report, analyze and chart this data? It would be beneficial to understand where resources are concentrated and why, wouldn’t it? Additionally, equipment downtime data as well as inventory and purchasing records systematically entered into the software database over time are valuable resources waiting to be tapped. These historical archives should be easily accessible for analysis and reporting to fully benefit from the CMMS.

Winston Churchill famously said "Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it." Does this apply to equipment maintenance “history” and subsequent efforts? It certainly does! Analysis and reporting CMMS data is a powerful resource that guides the maintenance manager to areas for improvement. The problem for many CMMS users is that it is difficult or impossible to extract meaningful answers from the archived data due to an inflexible or, in some cases, absent reporting tool in the software. We have answered this problem by delivering a CMMS that offers multiple user-friendly options and methods for reporting, charting and analysis.