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

"System needs to be simple and easy to use. Has to be suited to schools for the Deaf and blind. System must not require a full time clerk to enter the data."
-- Facilities/Operations, Education, Adairsville, GA

"Please provide information that will assit in preventive mantances as well as HVAC daily upkeep and daily maintances."
-- General Manager, Other Business Services, Rockaway, NJ

"Equipment preventive maintenace, ease in data entry, one time data entry, scheduling, workorder generation, ease in moving from screen to screen."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Mcminnville, OR

"Muts be user friendly. Have option to easily search work order history by specific problems."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Camden Wyoming, DE

"I want to be able to upload pdfs (of invoices and reports) to be attached to each machine/vehicle."
-- Administrative Assistant, Manufacturing, South San Francisco, CA

"We maintain a fleet of four offshore survey vessels that have multiple main engine & generator configurations. We also have winches and deck equipment that Oil Companies are more frequently requesting maintenance schedules for."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Lafayette, LA

"Need something simple for any department to request maintenance and the maintenance department to see it right away and acknowlege the request and allow it to be accessed by a technician on duty so that it can be processed in a timely manner. we could write our own program and make this happen, but it would be better to find one that is less than 500 so that we can concentrate on other things rather than writing a program."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Bay Saint Louis, MS

"I'm not sure if I will need this type of software. I would just like to see what is available."
-- Buyer, Transportation/Logistics, Savannah, TN

"I am responsible for the implementation of a User friendly data system that can be installed into 4 separated locations and still be able to cross reference between plants. Parts inventory, W/O, PM, Man-hour utilization are just a few of the needed assets. The software also has to be a bolt on to Oracle eAM financials. I would need live demonstrations of software before any decision was made."
-- General Manager, Manufacturing, North East, PA

"We are developing a functional specification. It is important to be able to integrate the CIMMS applications with our Kronos Tome and Attendance System."
-- MIS/IT, Government, Morristown, NJ

"-Equipment - enter spare parts associated with assets, enter asset locations and sub-locations, and create service contract-Inventory - records for all of our maintenance parts-Reporting and analysis - Track the life of assets-Scheduling-Security - create user accounts and passwords, create security groups and assign users to them, and limit access at the menu, form, and field level-Statistical predictive maintenance - flags equipment to be checked based on statistical exceptions and tracks conditions for each maintenance task-Tasks - create task records for a facility’s repetitive maintenance tasks, assign tasks to a specific person or a user-defined group, and enter instructions, safety procedures, and specialized maintenance information-Work orders-Work requests - create on-site and call-in requests."
-- MIS/IT, Agriculture, Edinburg, TX

"I am looking for a program that will give me the ability to have part numbers for replacement small parts related to the larger original part that they are installed on and possibily pictures accompaning the the part numbers and other traceable data such as maintenance history records and certian opperating information."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Carroll, IA

"Small plant - looking for a simple, Windows-based package (Do NOT want a DOS program in Windows dressing!- which is what I had.). Server based, 2 desktops. (Would consider multiple department users if price is right. (Most public works employees are NOT computer savvy.))."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Crete, NE

"Dont need a lot of bells nad whistles, just something that keeps track of maintenance periods from Monthly, Quarterly, Semi Annual and Annual, company info (I.E. Name, Contact, Phone #), Generator specs, last service date, next service due date, Maintainance requiered alarm."
-- Buyer, Equipment Sales & Service, Albuquerque, NM

"Need a maintenance software that will alert when service is needed by millage. Be able to track budget millage and track to a program. Track fuel usage to vehicle and program the vehicle that it is assigned to. Currently I have 78 vehicles in fleet. This number may be growing."
-- Human Resources, Non-Profit, Monmouth, OR

"Water well, booster pumps, sewer lift station, storm lift pumps, we have tesco scada as our operations."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Oakdale, CA

"We are looking primarily for a basic maintenance program, with future tenant work order request system expandabilty for future use. Our compex or use right now is small (bldg 200,000 sq.ft.) and tenant work orders are generated by tenants calling office and a work order is manually hand written generated...we do not have the funds or resources right now to expand to tenant interfacing directly to the system...so we are interested in keeping the cost down, and system similar to what we have but computer generated work orders will be more useful."
-- Facilities/Operations, Real Estate, Washington, DC

"To be used for a MRF (Materials Recovery Facility)recycling operation with balers, conveyors, screens, scales, etc."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Denver, CO

"I am serious if software is the answer to my problem. We have a brand new 30k sq ft facility and a fulltime janitor/maintenenace man without a system to have a good quality.ThanksCharley HillAssociate Pastor."
-- Buyer, Non-Profit, Carbondale, CO

"We have approximately 20 buildings, which include dorms, class rooms, shops, mess-hall/kitchen, offices, water treatment facility, sewage pump house and lagoons. There are only four maintences people so we need a program that wont take up alot of time using it."
-- Facilities/Operations, Education, Anaconda, MT

"I want to be able to schedule vehicle, lawn equipment, HVAC, anything a small location has."
-- Facilities/Operations, Non-Profit, Rochester, MN

"We are a small shop but I want to start a formal PM program."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Locust, NC

"I am looking for a CMMS that is priced right and easy to use."
-- Facilities/Operations, Construction/General Contracting, Beloit, WI

"I have eight vehicles and a number of pieces of equipment that ought to be on regulary scheduled maintenance, as well as generally keeping records on the same."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Pitman, NJ

"Managing the HVAC Equipment for a 53 story highrise / 1,000,000 square feet2000 ton chillwater plant (3) chillers(3)cooling tower, (6)pumps, (48) Air Handling Units, Fire Systems, various Exhaust and Vent Fans, Lighting, Electrical Gear, Controls etc..."
-- Facilities/Operations, Real Estate, New Orleans, LA

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