Accendo Reliability

Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site

  • Home
  • About
    • Contributors
  • Reliability.fm
    • Speaking Of Reliability
    • Rooted in Reliability: The Plant Performance Podcast
    • Quality during Design
    • Critical Talks
    • Dare to Know
    • Maintenance Disrupted
    • Metal Conversations
    • The Leadership Connection
    • Practical Reliability Podcast
    • Reliability Matters
    • Reliability it Matters
    • Maintenance Mavericks Podcast
    • Women in Maintenance
    • Accendo Reliability Webinar Series
    • Asset Reliability @ Work
  • Articles
    • CRE Preparation Notes
    • on Leadership & Career
      • Advanced Engineering Culture
      • Engineering Leadership
      • Managing in the 2000s
      • Product Development and Process Improvement
    • on Maintenance Reliability
      • Aasan Asset Management
      • CMMS and Reliability
      • Conscious Asset
      • EAM & CMMS
      • Everyday RCM
      • History of Maintenance Management
      • Life Cycle Asset Management
      • Maintenance and Reliability
      • Maintenance Management
      • Plant Maintenance
      • Process Plant Reliability Engineering
      • ReliabilityXperience
      • RCM Blitz®
      • Rob’s Reliability Project
      • The Intelligent Transformer Blog
    • on Product Reliability
      • Accelerated Reliability
      • Achieving the Benefits of Reliability
      • Apex Ridge
      • Metals Engineering and Product Reliability
      • Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics
      • Product Validation
      • Reliability Engineering Insights
      • Reliability in Emerging Technology
    • on Risk & Safety
      • CERM® Risk Insights
      • Equipment Risk and Reliability in Downhole Applications
      • Operational Risk Process Safety
    • on Systems Thinking
      • Communicating with FINESSE
      • The RCA
    • on Tools & Techniques
      • Big Data & Analytics
      • Experimental Design for NPD
      • Innovative Thinking in Reliability and Durability
      • Inside and Beyond HALT
      • Inside FMEA
      • Integral Concepts
      • Learning from Failures
      • Progress in Field Reliability?
      • Reliability Engineering Using Python
      • Reliability Reflections
      • Testing 1 2 3
      • The Manufacturing Academy
  • eBooks
  • Resources
    • Accendo Authors
    • FMEA Resources
    • Feed Forward Publications
    • Openings
    • Books
    • Webinars
    • Journals
    • Higher Education
    • Podcasts
  • Courses
    • 14 Ways to Acquire Reliability Engineering Knowledge
    • Reliability Analysis Methods online course
    • Measurement System Assessment
    • SPC-Process Capability Course
    • Design of Experiments
    • Foundations of RCM online course
    • Quality during Design Journey
    • Reliability Engineering Statistics
    • An Introduction to Reliability Engineering
    • An Introduction to Quality Engineering
    • Process Capability Analysis course
    • Root Cause Analysis and the 8D Corrective Action Process course
    • Return on Investment online course
    • CRE Preparation Online Course
    • Quondam Courses
  • Webinars
    • Upcoming Live Events
  • Calendar
    • Call for Papers Listing
    • Upcoming Webinars
    • Webinar Calendar
  • Login
    • Member Home

by Alex Williams Leave a Comment

Effectively Integrating Your CMMS with Current Systems

Effectively Integrating Your CMMS with Current Systems

Maintenance management software increases uptime and productivity, lowers maintenance costs and extends the life of equipment and optimizes inventory usage—provided that it integrates seamlessly with existing systems. One of the toughest aspects of managing this software is CMMS integration. If your CMMS doesn’t communicate smoothly and easily with your accounting, inventory, human resources, purchasing, and other systems, it can reduce response times and lead to an increased chance of error.

In order to integrate CMMS with other applications, you’ll need to successfully connect two or more software systems to maximize efficiency and avoid duplicating efforts. Integration makes common data available to each system and facilitates the exchange of this data. The data exchange can involve the systems reading each other’s data, writing to it, or both. By providing critical data in real-time, maintenance management software integration allows for faster response times to maintenance issues.

In some organizations, a maintenance management system may include a CMMS module that is integrated into a larger ERP maintenance software system. In other companies that use best-of-breed software, integration has to be organized as a separate function for two or more software systems.

Best-of-Breed CMMS Software vs. Full-Suite ERP Systems

Many firms have standalone niche and maintenance applications running and require these systems to communicate with one another. In some instances, synergizing disparate niche software systems can be a cost burden. The alternative is to look into full-suite ERP systems. ERP systems are advantageous in that they’re integrated, but they are extremely costly and do not handle maintenance functions as well as best-of-breed software.

Best-of-breed maintenance management software can be a fraction of the cost of an ERP system. Furthermore, it is better geared toward the maintenance industry and is thus more user-friendly. Created for maintenance people, by maintenance people, best-of-breed maintenance management software has a high adoption rate among maintenance personnel.

Modern CMMS Integration Tips:

In the past, maintenance software integration was an expensive and complex endeavor that in many cases required the involvement of outside IT consultants. However, today’s leading maintenance management software vendors provide tools that simplify the integration process. A CMMS vendor’s integration solution should have an efficient, intuitive user interface and do the following:

  • Import and export data from other files, applications, and databases
  • Guide you in the setup of each integration project with step-by-step ‘wizards’
  • Schedule each integration process by the minute, hour, day, etc. so you can “set it and forget it”

At DPSI, we offer the iMaint integrator option, which allows you to easily integrate our maintenance software with your accounting, purchasing, payroll, and other software systems. The iMaint integrator option eliminates manual input and paperwork while enabling management to make better decisions with accurate, up-to-date information. The experienced consultants in our professional services team can also assist you with a wide variety of integration tasks. Call 800-897-7233 or fill out our online contact form for more information about DPSI’s maintenance management software integration solutions.

Filed Under: Articles, EAM & CMMS, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: CMMS

« Two Methods of Quick Mating Part Location and Alignment
Product Reliability: Selection and Control »

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Articles by Alex Williams
in the EAM & CMMS series

Join Accendo

Receive information and updates about articles and many other resources offered by Accendo Reliability by becoming a member.

It’s free and only takes a minute.

Join Today

Recent Posts

  • Significance Over Success. Innovation Over Change. Anticipation Over Agility.
  • Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for World Class Reliability and Maintenance Performance
  • Self-Discipline Part 1
  • Is Safety Training Helpful?
  • FINESSE Facilitation: What Are Best Practices for Qualitative Assessment Analysis?

© 2023 FMS Reliability · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Cookies Policy

This site uses cookies to give you a better experience, analyze site traffic, and gain insight to products or offers that may interest you. By continuing, you consent to the use of cookies. Learn how we use cookies, how they work, and how to set your browser preferences by reading our Cookies Policy.