Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) are now widely used throughout industry and especially in the process sector. Their adoption demonstrates a great advance over the old daily, weekly, monthly routines, which used to form the basis of a plant maintenance strategy. PWE reports.

Karen Conneely, group commercial manager, Real Asset Management, outlines the way ISO 55000 is set to change corporate attitudes to asset maintenance and explains the fundamental importance of a good Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in delivering critical asset information and enabling process change.

Babcock and Scottish Water are the first two companies to be independently assessed by BSI and achieve certification to the new Asset Management Systems standard, ISO 55001. The standard is based on the popular PAS 55 Asset Management specifications sponsored by the Institute of Asset Management. PWE reports.

An electrical contractor needed a way of managing emergency call outs alongside routine activities. PWE reports.

From a manufacturing perspective, PWE looks at how much every aspect has changed over the past twenty-five years. Simple processes have now been replaced by complex automated machinery and the pen and paper method of transactional reporting and inventory control has been replaced by expensive applications.