Shop Floor Automations Helps Manufacturers Perform Preventive Maintenance with Bigfoot CMMS
CMMS from Shop Floor Automations
Shop Floor Automations, a DNC networking, communications and automation solutions provider, announced that its manufacturing customers are gaining full control of plant floor maintenance operations by using newly enhanced Bigfoot CMMS.
Bigfoot CMMS is a web-based solution that fundamentally automates preventive maintenance schedules for Every piece of plant floor equipment and all components entered into its database. Personnel submit requests for repairs through Bigfoot that generates work orders. Bigfoot captures data from work orders to drive calendar and meter-reading based preventive maintenance schedules. Additionally, Bigfoot collects valuable information to use on replace/repair decisions, outside vendor repair cost negotiations, capital investments and new hires.
Bigfoot’s advanced capabilities include predictive maintenance, asset life cycle analysis, parts replacement inventory, and history tracking with built-in reporting. Latest features include:
• PM balancing analysis.
• Assigning work orders to multiple people.
• Work order/asset criticality (RIME) analysis.
• Enhancement requests – direct to appropriate staff based on priority, type, etc.
• Employee certifications tracking.
• Enhanced tracking of replacement parts inventory.
• Bar coding work orders for easy access and retrieval.
• Additional languages have been added. Bigfoot is available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, and Hebrew.
Bigfoot Web is now supported by Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.
“Through work order information capture, analysis and reporting on all aspects of equipment maintenance, Bigfoot optimizes preventive maintenance, and ensures that all monitored assets achieve maximum up time, safety and longevity,” said Mr. Mercurio.
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