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Table 2. Sample Selection Criteria
Company Information Weight
Company profile 4
Financial position 6
Customer installations 5
Competitive advantage 5
20
Product & Hardware
Configurability 4
Web architecture 2
Open systems 3
9
Technical Information
Recovery & backup 2
Auditing & security 2
Documentation 2
Interface requirements 4
10
Support Services
Support 6
Ease of implementation 10
Training 5
21
Cost Effectiveness
Base package 35
Options & additions 10
Ongoing services 10
General 5
60
Technical Specs
User interface 16
Work planning & scheduling 16
Health, safety & environment 16
Maintenance optimization 16
KPIs & analysis tools 16
80
Total Score 200
Build process/system requirements:
One of the most critical steps in planning
for a new or replacement CMMS/EAM
is to determine your needs. Procuring a
CMMS/EAM system isn’t about finding
the best software package on the market.
The key to a successful implementation
is selecting a CMMS/EAM package that
best fits with your requirements. There
are many wonderful CMMS/EAM packages
available today, but every one of
them has its strengths and weaknesses.
Your task is to determine user specifications
based on the needs of stakeholders
(e.g., maintenance, operations, engineering,
IT, materials management, purchasing,
finance), and then choose the
combination of CMMS/EAM vendor and
software package that can best deliver on
your needs.
It’s critical to invest about three to six
months in the design of new processes
and supporting system specifications
with participation of key stakeholders.
This must be done before the selection
phase begins so you can filter the sales
pitch from each vendor and steer them
to exactly what you need to see demonstrated
to determine the best fit. Many
companies naively believe that there’s no
point in spending time on process design
until the system has been selected. Although
it’s true that your process design
can’t be finalized at a detailed level before
knowing which software package you’ll
purchase, it also has been shown through
30 years of track records that neglecting
to engage stakeholders in process design
before the selection will increase the
probability of failure.
The methodology should define
process flows that reflect the current state
and the desired future state. The futurestate
processes will be supported by best
practices and enabling system specifications.
For example, perhaps the future
state processes indicate stakeholder desire
to move to a more planned environment
from the current state of firefighting. Reducing
the high percentage of emergency
and reactive maintenance requires more
preventive and condition-based maintenance,
better planning and scheduling,
and a variety of analysis tools for
managing the transition. Addressing the
gap between current state and the desired
state presents a number of challenges that
should be discussed long before a system
is selected, such as:
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