Let’s say you’re a facility maintenance manager whose duties include issuing asset preventive-maintenance tickets, ensuring performance of work orders to OSHA standards, fielding emergency equipment breakdowns, minimizing downtime, and measuring all associated costs. Managing a facility’s assets can be complex, so it’s likely that at the heart of your maintenance operations exists a computer installed with computer maintenance management software (CMMS) or enterprise asset management (EAM) software. Today, these legacy programs are proven, invaluable tools for managing a tight ship of daily maintenance activities.

Recent technological leaps within CMMS/EAM software have shifted these legacy programs into the cloud computing space, which is welcome news within facilities management. Shifting to the cloud means that the CMMS/EAM software you count on becomes markedly more valuable.

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