Optimizing Asset Maintenance With SMART Suite

When your company invested in an enterprise suite to manage all functions across the organization – ranging from production, to finance, to maintenance – chances are they focused on the benefits of a "suite of applications" rather than the particular strengths of each application being purchased.

While many organizations discover that working with a single suite of enterprise applications may offer price advantages and easier integration between various departments' work systems, asset managers are often left struggling with a complex, less-than-ideal application for asset maintenance.

Enterprise suite applications for maintenance or asset management often do not provide your department the flexibility you need to effectively manage work orders, schedule activities and generate critical reports. In addition to the prohibitive costs and complexity involved in customizing these applications, is the fact that delays in updating work order status affect the other applications tied to the Suite. For example, work tickets that remain open in the system because of incomplete data, or back-in-service notices that are sitting in a pile awaiting data entry, can slow down production while managers seek a status update.