CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) is a computer software system that simplifies maintenance management and increases efficiency. It allows users to organize, track, measure, plan, schedule, and manage all aspects of maintenance tasks digitally. CMMS has several key components, including work order management, preventative and predictive maintenance, scheduling and planning, data management, and inventory control. These components help organizations avoid unexpected failures, reduce costs and downtime, and ensure maintenance tasks are completed effectively.

1. Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) is computer software that is being
designed to ensure consistent performance and increase efficiency by just simplifying
maintenance management. It is a user-friendly management system that helps one in planning
maintenance strategies and inventory control.
CMMS helps one to organize, track, measure, plan, schedule, and anything related to
maintenance tasks digitally. As the name suggests, it is a computerized way of managing
maintenance work.
There are various components of CMMS and some of them are given below as follows.
1. Work Order Management :
Work order management simply means to manage work order requests. It is one of
main components of CMMS. It includes the following information as follows.
 Number of work orders.
 Description regarding work order and priority according to its severity.
 Type of work order i.e. replace, repair, scheduled, planned.
 Causes and effects.
 Tools, products, or parts assigned and required.
2. Preventive and Predictive Maintenance :
CMMS generally provides many important features to organizations simply to help
them to manage their maintenance operations. One of the best features is providing
preventive and predictive maintenance. It helps one to avoid unexpected failures or
breakdowns or any damage to assets by simply providing both types of
maintenance.
 Preventive Maintenance :
It generally helps one to prevent assets from unexpected failure by
regular checking and maintenance.
 Predictive Maintenance :
It generally helps one to prevent assets from unexpected failure by
providing maintenance only when it is needed as it predicts if there are
any chances of failure occurrence. If chances of failure occurrence are
identified then only it performs maintenance.
3. Scheduling and planning :
Schedule and planning are two tasks that help one to become proactive rather than
reactive. Performing maintenance before any failure occurrence prevents the
organization from loss of production, prevent asset from damages, reduce loss of
time, and saves money. Therefore, CMMS helps to schedule and plan maintenance
tasks before any failure occurrence rather than performing unplanned maintenance.

2. 4. Data Management :
Data management of equipment i.e. managing information regarding equipment.
CMMS also helps to manage information and data regarding assets that help one to
know about the life-cycle of an asset. By checking information, one can decide
when to perform future preventive or predictive maintenance. Maintenance history
also helps one to solve issues more fastly and accurately to bring back assets into
normal working conditions.
5. Inventory control :
CMMS also manages Inventory control. Inventory control simply means keeping
correct number of parts and products in stock to avoid any problem. If correct parts
and products are not available in stock, then it makes it difficult for team members
to perform maintenance tasks more effectively. CMMS makes sure that parts that
are required are available in stock. CMMS helps one to avoid spending unnecessary
money on products or parts that are not required. It also reduces occurrence chances
of problems regarding storage issues.
6. Features of CMMS :
CMMS helps one to manage maintenance work orders by simply allowing one to –
 Submit, review, check, filter, assign, and analyze work orders.
 Plan, schedule, and initiate maintenance
 Get notified when any work orders are developed.
 Add checklists, manuals, data and notes to work orders.