For businesses in manufacturing and service-oriented fields, proper asset and maintenance management is not only an important aspect of organisational planning and control, it's critical.

Gaining a holistic perspective of the asset life cycle, maintenance requirements, production capabilities and component replacements can yield significant costs and productivity benefits for an organisation with direct, immediate and tangible impact on the bottom line.

ILLUMINAT's line of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software maintains a computer database of maintenance operations information to combine distinctive work flow and maintenance functions into an integrated, automated process which effects increased business responsiveness and return on assets, larger economies of scale, improved asset service delivery and lowered cost of ownership.

Our Maximo brand of CMMS offers tailored solutions for your specific business type and requirements. Its strategic management capabilities seamlessly tracks and manages the asset life cycle to maximise the performance of fixed, physical or capital assets that have a direct and significant impact on achieving corporate objectives.

Maximo's Asset, Work, Service, Contract, Materials and Procurement Management features may be used to:

• control maintainable assets through an asset inventory
• control accounting of assets, purchase price, depreciation rates, etc.
• schedule planned preventive maintenance (PM) routines
• coordinate preventive maintenance procedures and documentation
• control the commissioning and recording of planned and unplanned maintenance work
• coordinate shift and regular work schedules of the maintenance personnel database
• schedule calibration for gauges and instruments
• manage portable appliance testing
• support maintenance project management
• facilitate maintenance budgeting and costing statistics
• control maintenance inventory
• process condition monitoring inputs
• provide analysis tools for maintenance performance.

Such strategic asset management ensures that maintenance plans, use of labour, draw-down on spares and expenditure of budget for one asset support and work in concert with the needs of others. CMMS also enables higher-level management to gain a new and multi-dimensional perspective to asset management in order to facilitate extended forecasting periods, improved ranking of key decisions and an expanded tactical view of the entire organisation's operations.

Furthermore, the Maximo CMMS is designed to support the document control requirements of ISO 9002 thereby encouraging the user to focus on good maintenance practice.

A software solution that spans the Finance, Oil and Gas, Retail, Manufacturing, Media and Information Technology, Telecommunications, Education, Healthcare and Service sectors, ILLUMINAT's Maximo solutions can help your business through:

• managing planned and unplanned maintenance activities to decrease the occurrence of plant shutdowns and minimise asset downtime
• allowing work planners to match job tasks with available resources, estimate and obtain costs approval, establish priorities and initiate maintenance activities across the enterprise
• allowing end-users to submit new service requests, track and update open service requests
• enabling asset maintenance organisations to align their goals and priorities in a manner that best supports overall business objectives
• tracking materials asset-related materials and their usage allowing for real-time knowledge of materials status
• supporting all phases of enterprise-wide procurement activity, including direct purchase requirements and inventory replenishment
• providing buyers with complete access to requisition, quotation, vendor, purchase order and contract data
• providing comprehensive functionality to fully manage vendor contracts
• permitting maintenance organisations to define service offerings, establish service level agreements with their internal customers, implement escalation procedures to ensure that service levels are met, and provide metrics to monitor service level delivery
• allowing remote access to the system from any Windows CE/Pocket PC hand-held computing device
• enabing organisations to effectively manage the calibration of their test measurement instrumentation
• providing a visual, web-based parts and equipment library that accelerates the maintenance organisation's ability to locate and identify needed parts
• enabling planners/schedulers to manipulate data from Microsoft Project to extract exact reports.

The Maximo suite of CMMS software includes:

• Maximo Project Manager
• Maximo Navigator
• Maximo Calibration
• Maximo Mobile Suite
• Maximo SLA Manager
• Maximo Enterprise.

Our professional Sales Team at ILLUMINAT offers consultancy services to assist you in deciding upon the Maximo configuration which best suits your organisation's requirements, seeing you through the process from purchase to installation and after-sales service.