Introduction
Managing and maintaining your company’s assets is a crucial part of ensuring efficient operations. With Empress, you can easily keep track of all maintenance activities for your assets. This feature is known as Asset Maintenance. It lets you schedule, track, and record maintenance tasks, assign tasks to team members, and ensure timely upkeep of your company’s assets.
Why is Asset Maintenance Important?
Asset maintenance helps in preserving the condition and performance of your assets. Regular maintenance can prevent unexpected breakdowns, improve the efficiency of your assets, and extend their lifespan. With Empress’s Asset Maintenance feature, you can manage these tasks effortlessly, ensuring your assets are always in top condition.
Getting Started with Asset Maintenance
Before diving into the Asset Maintenance feature, there are a couple of prerequisites:
- Firstly, you need to have an Asset with the ‘Maintenance Required’ option enabled.
- Secondly, you should create an Asset Maintenance Team. This team will be responsible for performing the maintenance tasks.
Once you have these prerequisites, you can start creating Asset Maintenance tasks. Each asset should have its own Asset Maintenance record, detailing all the maintenance tasks, their frequency, the assigned team member, and the start and end dates.
How to Create Asset Maintenance
Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating an Asset Maintenance task:
- From the Empress home screen, navigate to the Asset Maintenance list.
- Click on ‘New’ to create a new maintenance task.
- Select the Asset that requires maintenance.
- Choose the Asset Maintenance Team responsible for the task.
- Add Maintenance Tasks in the table. You can specify the type of maintenance (either Preventive Maintenance or Calibration), the frequency of the task, and assign it to a team member.
- Once all details are filled in, save your changes.
The Empress system automatically calculates the next due date for the task based on the start date and frequency. This task will then appear in the assigned user’s ToDo list, making it easy for them to keep track of their responsibilities.
Key Features of Asset Maintenance
The Asset Maintenance feature offers several functionalities that make managing maintenance tasks easy:
- Maintenance Type: You can specify whether the maintenance task is Preventive or Calibration. This helps in organizing the tasks based on their nature.
- Start and End Date: You can set a specific timeframe for the maintenance period. This ensures that the tasks are carried out within the stipulated time.
- Last Completion Date: If a task was not completed by the scheduled date, you can record the actual date of completion here. This helps in keeping accurate records of your maintenance tasks.
In Conclusion
The Asset Maintenance feature in Empress is a powerful tool for managing the upkeep of your company’s assets. It simplifies the task of scheduling, tracking, and recording maintenance activities, ensuring that your assets are always in top condition. With this feature, you can enhance the efficiency of your operations and extend the lifespan of your assets.
If you need further assistance with the Asset Maintenance feature, feel free to reach out to our support team. We’re always here to help you make the most out of Empress.