CARL’S CMMS

This is time to talk about the CMMS I use at THALES to set up a Maintenance Plan. I remind you that a maintenance plan is designed to improve the availability of equipments and reduce maintenance costs. This software is CARL.CARL is a CMMS with over 25 years of expertise. CARL Source fits  your company at a time, depending on your industry, but also depending on his size.

CARL Source is available in several versions, each dedicated to a group of trades:

• Factory: production equipment, handling, specific technical equipment, research centers ….
• Facility: buildings, offices, sales areas, airports…
• Transport: rolling stock and fixed installations in the world of transport, public transport.
• Health: hospitals, clinics, home health.

In addition to a specialization by business, CARL Source offers four levels of scales to suitthe needs the simplest as the most complex:

• The Smart range puts the emphasis on ease of use, speed of implementation and a very lowcost.
• The Expert range offers a solution to service maintenance medium: this version, very complete in terms of functionality, meets the needs standard maintenance services, and beyond.
• The range “Enterprise”  is suitable for project to a large number of users, requiringsignificant adaptations or imposing a specific architecture complex.
• The Corporate range, finally, is intended for large projects (national or international centralized deployment), in contexts that can be multilingual (several nationalities exploiting the same database).

That ‘all for today. For more over information, please visit CARL Website : http://www.carl-software.com/en/cmms/products/carlsource/introduction.html

 

How to choose a CMMS?

As I said in my last post, I will post an arcticle about The CMMS which I use in my company: CARL SOFTWARE. But, before that, you should ask yourself some questions about the CMMS, in particular what is it and how should it choose?

What Is a CMMS?

“A CMMS is part of the information, management and control system for the maintenance function, whose purpose is to maintain facilities and buildings in working order so that they are capable at all times of meeting their design specifications in an efficient and economical manner. The computerised management tool is thus an aid to tracking, archiving, analysing, and decision-making.

Remaining in a general context, the CMMS can therefore be a decision-making tool that helps to:

• Control costs for the facilities to be maintained
• Ensure the long-term durability of assets
• Optimise technical and human maintenance resources
• Manage the preparation of servicing operations, their scheduling and costs
• Optimise management of the stock of spare parts in order to reduce the value of this stock whilst maintaining satisfactory availability of facilities
• Perform an inventory of technical facilities and create documentation for them
• Increase the reliability of facilities by analysing formalised collected feedback, by deciding on and presenting reasoned plans of action.”

thes informations come from http://www.carl-software.com/en/cmms/products/cmms.html

 

Feedback from experience in CMMS

Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) are common in today’s industries. CMMS can bring a large number of benefits, which include increased productivity, reduced costs, and effective utilization of the assets in any manufacturing and service producer. The company where I work and several other companies  like Geneva International Airport, N-Y City Subway, The Eiffel Tower, The BRINKS a leader of cash transportation… use CARL Software. In this post, I’ ll compare and contrast my company THALES with the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

To ensure the maintenance of equipment, THALES as the Eiffel Tower, set up a maintenance plan through a CMMS. This plan aims to avoid this failure, to ensure and improve equipment availability by reducing maintenance costs.

The maintenance of the Eiffel Tower is applied to the 18,000 mechanics and 10,000 tons of metal that make up the tower, the four elevators that carry visitors from the pillars to the thirdlevel.
Unlike the Eiffel Tower, THALES is a factory. Therefore, the maintenance plan is applied to all equipments necessary for the manufacture of a microwave tube. More than 5000 facilities.

As THALES, The aim of the installation of the CMMS was to log replacement parts, optimise stock supply, analyse breakdowns to schedule preventative maintenance, manage maintenance contracts and give the Tower’s employees the ability to report faults as quickly as possible to speed up resolution.

This video can help you to understand how the Eiffel Tower maintenance is done. 

Soon, I’ll post an article about the CARL software CMMS ‘s features. But before that I invite you tovisit this site http://support.carl-software.com/references/Tour-de-Force1288143552.pdf, a press article to improve your knowledge  of the Eiffel Tower maintenance systems.

 

TPM a strategy to improve manufacturing performance

If you are interested to know how you can set up a good maintenance stratey, I invite you to visit this website :

Graphic showing the dynamic effects and other aspects of Total Productive Maintenance.

For more information about TPM strategy, please follow this link => http://www.strategosinc.com/total_productive_maintenance.htm

 

Maintenance process in industry

 

Welcome!

Hello!

My name’s Abou. I ‘m a trainee maintenance engineer working for THALES Electron Devices.

In this blog, I will talk about the industrial maintance

Industrial maintenance, main function of the industrial company (including manufacture of mechanical, electrical, metallurgy, chemicals, plastics, food, etc.) is to ensure the smooth running of production tools.
The industrial maintenance engineer must ensure that the repair of production equipment, but also anticipate and therefore avoid any disfunctionning. It has indeed gone from a “reactive” maintenance to a “preventive maintenance” in order to anticipate outages, line stops and thus increase productivity and the profit.

Yet, how can a maintenance engineer set up a maintenance plan to improve the disponibility of equipments in order to increase the productivity?

So, in my blog, I’ ll answer to this question.

Good surf !