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ffective government leadership understands that balancing city services between the need for cost containment and avoiding adding to unemployment woes is a tricky situation. Better run local governments are making a fundamental shift to better asset and maintenance management for infrastructure care.
Traditionally, municipal and State governments have invested heavily in financial systems that make sure revenue is properly captured. As a result, the different operations within a government such as water utilities, facility maintenance and fleet management have struggled to find better asset management tools that work well with the financial systems. This situation has created an opportunity to make positive changes by recognizing that controlling operating costs is much more than slashing head count or other budget reductions. Opportunity exist to reduce operating expenses if:
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Source: GHD Consulting Inc.,City of Boynton Beach Utilities Department Asset Management Program When properly implemented, a CMMS solution: Streamlines maintenance tasks by automating many of the work order processes. Enables more work to be done with the same amount of resources. This is huge for keeping City services at sufficient voter happiness. Lowers unplanned or emergency repair work saving precious labor costs. Tracks work requests, work orders and completed work in any department from water utilities to facility maintenance. A CMMS can also be used to schedule or track many predictive maintenance technologies. Lowers long term infrastructure costs by lengthening the useful lifecycle of assets.
database is accessible to all approved staff for use in addressing asset and maintenance issues. The learning curve for new staff is accelerated. Municipal managers will know where their assets are, what condition they are in as well as what work has been performed. Enabling the setting up of standard operating procedures throughout the various facilities and departments. Two of the most important questions that municipal managers ask are 1) how will this integrate into the current financial systems and 2) will the staff actually use the system? The answer to question one is that a good EAM system has the capability to be customized for integration into a variety of applications. This is not found with off-the-shelf EAM systems. The ability to be customized is an important consideration for decision makers as is the ability of the EAM vendor to provide technical support when needed. The answer to the second question is quality EAM systems are very user friendly. Through the use of handheld technology, staff can perform inspections, work orders and conduct rounds without unnecessary paperwork. Using mobile handheld devices also gives staff a transferable skill set. With a little training, staff adoption rates can be very high. Share with us how your city government is adapting to the need for better asset and maintenance management. If you liked this article you may also enjoy reading: capital analysis, EAM Documents, municipal governments
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