And increasingly, say vendors, they’re used for maintenance of automated materials handling equipment. Warehouses can use CMMS/EAM to manage general equipment such as lighting heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) or access control systems. “And, it’s not just the level of automation that makes maintenance more important, it’s the expectations around shorter deliver times, which makes it critical that equipment runs reliably.”ĬMMS solutions are used by many industries with large facilities where machine uptime is paramount. “It’s definitely become a more important type of solution for the warehousing market as facilities have become more automated,” says Harry Kohal, a vice president at Eagle Technology, an EAM/CMMS vendor.
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CMMS, also known as enterprise asset management (EAM), is becoming a more mission-critical system for DCs, according to software providers. In this evolving environment, DC operators need to ask whether maintenance practices such as using spreadsheets to record repairs are sufficient or whether more advanced solutions such as computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) are called for. In fact, research firm Technavio expects the global market for automated materials handling systems to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 8% through 2021. To keep up with these requirements, DCs are deploying more automation like conveyors, sortation systems, shuttles or robotics. According to MHI’s annual industry report in 2017, 38% of respondents see customer demands for faster response times as “very challenging” while another 15% call it “extremely” challenging. The operational pressures on DCs are intense. Running an effective distribution center in picking intensive, automated environments not only is giving rise to new methods and systems for executing fulfillment within the four walls, it also is elevating the importance of maintenance processes and systems.
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