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Top1. Introduction
The current competitive environment is variable. The enterprise should constantly look for ways to reduce costs and improve productivity to be competitive. One such tool is the rational organization of the maintenance and repair organization (MRO). This paper shows the basic organization of effective enterprise equipment maintenance and repair based on a systematic approach, obtained on the basis of years of combining experience in the development and implementation of supporting maintenance and repair of software systems.
As well known the enterprise performance depends on equipment efficiency. The spetialised mechanical department of a company or the service organizations (contractors) perform the function of facilitating smooth running of the equipment. The availability of the equipment is provided by high-quality, timely and safe MRO in a case of rational use of dedicated resources.
Objects that require maintenance and repair is exist in any enterprise. This is not necessarily the productive facility. There are buildings, facilities, communications, vehicles, office equipment and office equipment and etc. All they need to maintenance indeed. The problem is relevant for organizations that are not directly involved in production too. One of the important tasks is improving the equipment maintenance and repair. The solution of this problem depends on stability and performance of each enterprise. In case of emergency incident production is stops and enterprise suffers losses. Experts estimates (Tinham, 1999) that the MRO automation significantly reduces the cost of the equipment repair, technical support, inventories volume, as well as profitability increasing. The diagnostic monitoring and maintenance automation works are results in repair costs reducing up to 50-80%, the technical support cost reducing – up to 50-80%, the inventory volume reducing – up to 30% and the production profitability increasing – up to 20-60%. In the works (Pajk, D. & Kovačič, 2013; Panorama Consulting Solutions, 2013) also a study of the ERP systems implementation effects is cited.
According to (Software Advice, 2013), the top benefits to using maintenance management software include:
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Better recurring maintenance scheduling;
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Better work order assignment and request management;
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Greater access to historical reports;
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Reduced maintenance costs.