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 need a basic software package which will track and report service calls, PM schedules, etc."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Decatur, GA

"We have 36 trucks and about 100 pieces of equipment that we maintain."
-- Office Manager, Other Business Services, Lindenhurst, NY

"We need a simple PM program that can be set up to kick out the PM's for the week on Mondays, then be entered back into the system on Fridays as done or not done. If not done it should have a feature to run a report to that effect. They should be activaded by days,weeks, months, 3 months, 6 months, yearly or by hours. (enter hours weekly) mach. histroy also."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Verona, WI

"Small company (65). Need mobility - maybe web access anywhere, so our mobile mechanics and formen can access on the road at remote locations. We want asset management, part and tool inventory etc. Work order generation and requests. Scheduling and report generation a must. Looking for ease of operation so even a truck driver can use it."
-- Facilities/Operations, Construction/General Contracting, Blackfoot, ID

"The system MUST be designed for a Communications (two-way radio) Shop and System Asset & Maintenance Mgmt."
-- Buyer, Government, Spokane, WA

"Ease of use. Customization, work on laptop or tablet computers;."
-- Administrative Assistant, Other Business Services, Englewood, FL

"I have multiple customers, so I need a software that permit to my clients to see their reports, ect. in real time."
-- CFO, Transportation/Logistics, Sabana Seca, PR

"Import existing data from ms word, excel able to use barcodes scabability. Import pictures."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Atlanta, GA

"We are a long term care facility and are looking for a maintenance program than can work with PDAs."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Indianapolis, IN

"120 bed nursing home; 100,000 sq. ft; 5 maintenance persons."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Battle Creek, MI

"Just looking for something simple that I can put in the original amount of the note with the interst rates and the payments and then apply payments as they come in and it will calculate the correct interst as to the date of the payment and have a payoff amount. This is just for one person and possible another."
-- Consultant, Retail, Plaquemine, LA

"I require a basic work order generation and tracking system , along with a preventative maintenance system. we are a small assisted living facility and have rather basic pc based system...."
-- Buyer, Health Care, Peterborough, NH

"We need a program that will handle service calls for general repairs, locksmithing, parking lot light bulb/ballst replacement, HVAC, plumbing and anything that has to do with a commercial/retail facility. Also for HVAC and parking lot lights to be able to log what equipment is on a site and to be able to schedule PM programs. Hvac to have filter requirments to print out and lot lights to have ballasts and bulbs to print out for each site for so techs know if they have inventory on a truck for the job or they need to get it. Many more requirments needed."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Saint Paul, MN

"I want to be able to run my business any where with out office employees I also want to be able to work with my managerout in the field."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Palmdale, CA

"I want to be able to put in older records, from past history.I want reports I can run per vehicle or numerous vehicles at a time. I want to be able to make corrections and additions to existing work orders ect:."
-- Buyer, Telecom/Utilities, Scottsboro, AL

"I'm looking for a cheap, but software that can access than can help me monitor the body damage, and other items such as tire, tune ups, i am a over worked warehouse manager that needs something to make it easier."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Woodway, TX

"Oil Field transportation company.Need software to provide maintence for appx. 16 vehicles.Fuel Mileage logs.Driver personal records.Vehicle license records.Prefer ability to import from Wright Express Fuel cards, and export to Quickbooks Company Software."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Transportation/Logistics, Haynesville, LA

"We need to have a record keeping managment system for college fleet and service vehicles. If possible we woiuld like to have a software that interfaces with TMA or BANNER."
-- Facilities/Operations, Education, Harrisburg, PA

"We are a construction company with trucks, diesel equipment, generators, compressors, gas saws, tampers."
-- Facilities/Operations, Construction/General Contracting, San Antonio, TX

"We are a shop and we maintain many different customers trucks. We would like to have a program that is EASY to use and EASY to edit information and input information. I know the startup would be time consuming, but after that I need to be able to work with the program to make my life easier, not harder. I need to be able to have different customer names as well as their unit numbers. Some customers may have the same unit numbers and we need to be able to know who is who."
-- Office Manager, Other Business Services, Lakeside, CA

"I want to be able to "migrate" current information in my CMMS to a new application with as little disruption as possible."
-- General Manager, Manufacturing, Garner, IA

"Really just need to be able to do Preventative Maintenance and documentation of work orders."
-- Facilities/Operations, Travel/Hospitality, Webster, NY

"We have 40 sewage pump stations with no way of tracking pm, pump hours,or general assets in our system."
-- General Manager, Government, Erie, PA

"I'm coming in to a new facility and running main and prevention of maintenance and all that good stuff. Before the copanny just thought that they had to replace these machines every 2 years or so i would like to know my options"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Telecom/Utilities, Reidsville, NC

"We have other equiptment that has to be maintained, but doesnot require the same logs as vehicles."
-- Buyer, Agriculture, Lewisburg, TN

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