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 want to track maintenace requirements for each piece of equipment, spare partes, custodial supplies, etc."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Lafayette, CO

"Info on: ease of use, custom reporting, material management, manpower utilization, and project cost/equipment history."
-- General Manager, Other Business Services, Atlanta, GA

"We are a repair facility that specializes in fleets. What I am looking for is something that will help me keep up with our fleets. Tell us when what vehicle needs to come in from what company for what type of service."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Jackson, MS

"We have a single facility comprised of 10 buildings of various ages. These buildings have a wide range of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and machine shop equipment. Age range from 1960 to present. All we want and need is a program to organize and dispatch PM's by date, building, season, and or trade."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Lockport, NY

""had to format the hard drive,now i can't in stall xp,computer said that i didn't have bootmgr was miss,but I can install windows 98 ,IT read 98 but will not read xp OR ANY OTHER CD.when my COMPUTER come on it read (a) AND THE CD, SET RUN LIKE IT HUNTING FOR SOMETHING bUT PUT IN 98 READ RIGHT WAY""
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Elizabethton, TN

"We are fleet owners for 200 diffrant type of vehicals, we required complete solution like..PM/BD and other maintanance trcking and report generation."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Equipment Sales & Service, Bellary, IN

"It will be required to archive, make reports, automatically assign PM's to technician via e-mail or other notification and total up PM costs."
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Machesney Park, IL

"Streamlined recording of maintenance record per vehicle. Would like to produce work orders and prescheduling of preventive maintenance as well as alerting of priority repairs."
-- Buyer, Government, Portage, IN

"Tha added ability to use scanners to minimize date entry activities."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Cranberry Township, PA

"We need a program that is user friendly. One that does not take a large amount of time to implement. One that we can generate weekly, monthly and yearly reports from. A program that allows us to assign specific task to specific people as far as preventive maintenance is concerned and keep a record of these task as they are completed by the employee."
-- Office Manager, Health Care, Jennings, LA

"Inventory Level, Equipment/Asset Tracking, PO System, Preventive and Demand Maintenance."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Peshtigo, WI

"We teach students to be prepared to enter the world of work."
-- Educator, Education, Las Vegas, NV

"Want to be able to schedule preventative maintenance and required testing. This has to be a Healthcare oriented software that facilitates meeting the standards of The Joint Commission and assists in compliance with Life Safety Codes. I know what I need, so please don't waste my time."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Sioux City, IA

"This is a fairly small facility just looking for something to create work orders and parts inventory. Looking for a stand alone system that could be installed on our local network."
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Peru, IL

"The CMMS is to be used at a church and a school (Pre thru Grade 8). They are directly across the street from each other in a rural area. The program would be handled primarily by volunteers and a few specialists like HVAC and electrical.Membership in the church is aprox. 1,000 and school aprox. 250."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Freeland, MI

"I need a SIMPLE software package for maintenance of 10 restaurant facilities that will save me from having to develop spreadsheets. I DO NOT want anything web based that requires a monthly fee -- software will be installed and used on one computer. Budget is less than $800."
-- Facilities/Operations, Restaurant, Florence, KY

"(a) must be network capable;(b) must be able to add an additional facility at a later date;(c) must be able to import existing data from our current AS400/iSeries system (Excel?);(d) must have ODBC capabilities;(e) must be able to generate all work orders for the cyclic requirements, based upon an ending date (all dailys, monthlys, semis, annuals), even if the current ones are not closed;(f) departmental open order listings must include the task name and detailed procedures;(g) must accommodate monthly activities (not 28, 19, 30, 31 days);Also, need pricing for the package, pricing for adding additional facilities, and annual maintenance and support."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Clyde, OH

"Researching general consumer electronics,TV & appliance repair work-order management solution. Exploring alternatives to simple 1-page-formrepair-authorization/work-orders."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Equipment Sales & Service, Lyndeborough, NH

"We are a small manufacturing plant that needs to replace maintainit due to its single user lock."
-- Purchasing Manager, Manufacturing, Spokane, WA

"Just want something to generate weekly scheduled maintenance and is user friendly."
-- Facilities/Operations, Health Care, Syracuse, KS

"Need to have the ability to receive work orders from any computer in our network."
-- Facilities/Operations, Education, Seattle, WA

"I need to list my equipt. and track each piece and what maintance is done at that time."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Linden, NJ

"I just want to keep track of maintenene of hvac equipment, parts installed,etc..i want to be able to group and print out lists of equipment."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Chicago, IL

"We are a printing facility with web presses, RTO system and chill towers. We have 250,000 square feet under roof."
-- General Manager, Other Business Services, Hollywood, FL

"I would like the software to be able to handle transportation, guest rooms, housekeeping, public room reservations in addition to facility work orders, asset management, refurbishing records and preventive maintenance,."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Topeka, KS

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