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Let’s explore the critical asset maintenance processes you need to digitalize through a best-in-class mobile maintenance management solution that connects to your existing systems such as Oracle EBS, EAM, Oracle Maintenance Cloud, or SAP S/4 HANA.
In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, asset reliability is critical to the success of asset-intensive businesses. However, traditional asset maintenance process management that relies on paper forms and siloed systems can lead to inefficiencies, costly errors, and unexpected downtime. This is where mobile maintenance management comes into the picture. By digitizing your asset maintenance process and connecting technicians with back-office planners and schedulers in real-time, mobile maintenance management solutions can enhance communication, improve decision-making, and boost asset reliability.
Effective maintenance planning and scheduling is a cornerstone of a robust asset maintenance process. Real-time communication across your maintenance organization is essential. Maintenance planners should know the availability of spare parts, and warehouse managers should be aware of upcoming work orders to plan inventory. However, traditional paper forms and siloed systems do not provide real-time data on the availability of parts and resources, which can lead to equipment failure and unplanned downtime.
To address these challenges, there is a growing need to digitalize planning and scheduling within the asset maintenance process using mobile plant maintenance solutions. Digitization of your asset management provides you with real-time data and enhances communication between field technicians and back-office maintenance teams. It enables informed decision-making about maintenance of work orders, parts procurement, and scheduling of tasks. This improves overall equipment efficiency, reduces downtime, and enables technicians to prioritize maintenance tasks based on urgency.
Asset-intensive companies rely heavily on the uptime of their equipment. Every single minute of operation is crucial, and any unexpected downtime can cause severe financial losses. Technicians who identify critical issues need to act fast and create a work order or push a notification to resolve the problem immediately.
However, most operators still use traditional methods like carrying clipboards and submitting paper forms after completing rounds. This outdated asset maintenance process is time-consuming and often results in unplanned downtime, causing a significant impact on productivity and revenue.
To address these challenges, asset-intensive companies should embrace mobile solutions that replace paper forms and allow operators to connect with asset maintenance systems in real-time. By doing so, operators can quickly identify critical issues and create work orders on the spot, reducing the time needed to resolve problems.
The adoption of mobile solutions also enhances occupational safety by providing real-time visibility into equipment performance, allowing operators to make informed decisions and prioritize maintenance tasks based on the urgency of the issue. Additionally, connecting operators with the asset maintenance systems improves operational efficiency by enabling predictive maintenance, reducing the likelihood of unexpected downtime, and maximizing equipment uptime.
The Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) value chain is essential for any plant’s productivity. Even the unavailability of a single nut can cause delays on the production line and incur significant losses to the company. However, MRO is also an area that can be prone to risky purchases and rogue spending, leading to higher inventory carrying costs.
To overcome these challenges and ensure the smooth operation of production lines while keeping inventory costs in check, companies must gain a comprehensive view of their MRO value chains. This is where digitalizing MRO processes through a mobile supply chain management solution can transform your asset maintenance process. Through digitalization, you can break data silos and gain a comprehensive view into upcoming work orders and spare parts availability.
With this information, your inventory managers can make well-informed decisions about procurements. They can maintain optimal inventory levels, eliminating the need for emergency purchases.
Digitalizing MRO processes enhances collaboration and communication among the plant’s workforces. With mobile-enabled access to real-time data, plant managers can track and monitor progress, optimize maintenance schedules, and predict equipment failures, enabling them to take proactive measures to prevent downtime.
You can find many mobile maintenance management solutions on the market. If you want to redefine your asset maintenance process through digitalization, consider deploying a mobile solution that connects your frontline maintenance workers with the asset maintenance systems directly. Only then can you eliminate data errors, work duplications, and data silos.
Looking for a mobile maintenance management solution that integrates with your Oracle EBS EAM, Oracle Maintenance Cloud, or SAP S/4 HANA? Propel Apps has created a best-in-class mobile asset management solution. Schedule a meeting for more information; we’d love to solve your problem.
