TLDR; Computerized Maintenance Management Made Easy

TLDR; is a book review series. Some of these books are entertaining, some are just informative. Hopefully this will save you time in your selection of what to read.

Computerized Maintenance Managment Systems Made Easy, by Kishan Bagadia, is a dry but informative book. A CMMS is a system developed to help optimize repairs. Implemented well, these can streamline a company's maintenance. Average implementations have decent ROIs and bad implementations make everyone involved look foolish and incompetent (my words, not the author's).

The chapters are as follows...

1. Maintenance Management

2. Overview of CMMS

3. How to Successfully Justify a CMS (yes, they forgot a letter)

4. How to Specify, Evaluate and Select a CMMS

5. How to Implement a CMMS

6. How to Audit/Optimize Your CMMS

7. CMMS and TPM

8. How to Turn Maintenance Into a Profit Center

I got this book after being added to the CMMS upgrade team. It is a little strange to see this book lay out how a maintenance system should work. However, if you go through this fairly light and non-technical read, you can probably find some easy improvements in your own system. I found two simple (aka technically easy) improvements to ours that could be implemented in the next 1-3 years.

If you are involved in such a system, I encourage you to give it a read. There could be some easy wins for you to discover.

Also, on a personal note, I had a son recently, so the posts are going to decrease in frequency. My new aim is once a month.