BuyerZone users' maintenance management software requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their maintenance management software purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of maintenance management software other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: maintenance management software purchasing requirements

"I m currently running a Thesis on Effective equipment miantenance schedule for Increased productivity"
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Akwa Ibom, VA

"Simplicity for the Maintnance Tech's, The ability to track the life of a unit (vehicle) with ease, reports."
-- Purchasing Manager, Government, Lecanto, FL

"It should be for the water and wastewater field. if possible should be able to work with accounting software named Springbrook."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Mukilteo, WA

"I am looking for a program that is user friendly, can maintain and track all aspects of the maint. program. Be able to enter other equipment outside of vehicle assests such as radios."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Lake City, MI

"Needs purchasing module with expense tracking capability and no requirement to build a catalog based on vendor part numbers (whose idea was that, anyway?) Small company, small budget, simple requirements."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Warren, MI

"What I am looking for out of this software is to maintain a equipment list for several loacations, keep track of monthly scheduled preventive maintenance for each location, keep track of inspection reports for each location for monthly & yearly inspections, be able to flag preventive maintenance that has not been performed, be able to print out monthly & yearly reports for inspections & preventive maintenance data that was entered into this program for each location. I have 17 locations with different contractors performing operation & maintenance services at these locations. I am looking for a software that would allow me to maintain all these locations with the different equipment at each location along with the different types of preventive maintenance being performed at each location with different contractors performing maintenance."
-- Buyer, Government, Detroit, MI

"PM and emergency work order generation, labor tracking, spare parts inventory tracking."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Ravenna, OH

"Predictive & preventive maintenance, low cost, tool crib control (min-max), part number managent for spare parts, spare parts PO generation, WOs, maintenance schedule and components or spare parts needed, etc."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, El Paso, TX

"I only have a very small budget for software.my budget is $400 max."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Atlanta, GA

"Contain database of created PM forms.Scheduler to automatically print out specific forms on due dates."
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Jeffersonville, IN

"I would like to see the progarm or progarms that are out there to know which is the best for my needs."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Sunnyvale, CA

"Have a small Bio-Medical repair Company and need a maintenance software package that also includes Barcode Reading for barcoded asset tags on each item tested. Also to use the barcode number to pull up history."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Health Care, East Freetown, MA

"1. software installed on a dedicated computer.2. input and store equip/machinery data. sort by building,equipment number,equipment type, manufactor,3. set up maint. schedules4. auto notification via e-mail or printer as schedule dictates.5. trend, report,etc.6. expandable7. very inexpensive."
-- Facilities/Operations, Education, Hattiesburg, MS

"I need a maintenance scheduling system that is very simple and user friendly. It is for a religious facility where this will be far from their primary expertise or concern, but where there is too much maintenance activity to keep track of without some program.It does not have to be feature rich.It should be low cost."
-- Buyer, Non-Profit, Luxemburg, WI

" we need an active clock. so that our tech's can punch on and off of jobs in real time with a palm devise on their tool boxes that can be down loaded to an office computer at the end of their shift."
-- Buyer, Transportation/Logistics, Sarasota, FL

"Have a Bio-Medical repair company and looking for a way to do asset tracking by using bar coding at 300 different sites. Have everything now in Excel now and looking for a way to use a barcode scanner to inventory items on site."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Health Care, East Freetown, MA

"Need support at start up and continuing education as our needs or feturs in program improve."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Jellico, TN

"We are looking for a software package that we can load onto our server that can be used by the employees. It would need to have the ability to track vehicle mileage and determine the approximate date the service would be due."
-- General Manager, Transportation/Logistics, East Hartford, CT

"Being able to go paperless with the use of barcode and hand held wireless devises."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Yonkers, NY

"Must be able to use on a PCusing Excel, or MS Access."
-- Consultant, Non-Profit, Media, PA

"Scheduling repairs, tracking inventory and maintain manpower. It should have a capability to have a report of the scheduled maintenance and should be able to store the events of the unexpected breakdowns."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Hamilton, OH

"The programs need to generate and track equipment and preventative maintenance work orders via web, I also would like it to track labor and assets."
-- Buyer, Government, Ormond Beach, FL

"We need a simple program that gives our employees access to a work order request and respone to that request along with keeping track of all request. Nothing costly."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Tallahassee, FL

"Our Road Department needs to track equipment maintenance and inventory supplies."
-- Administrative Assistant, Government, Copley, OH

"- A forgotten PM must be able to be logged in after the scheduled date, with both the scheduled date and the log date present in records."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Boxborough, MA

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