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

"Equipment reporting based on user constraints of hours and date."
-- General Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Fallston, MD

"I am looking for the software to handle inventory also. Thank you,."
-- Buyer, Transportation/Logistics, Grove City, OH

"I am looking for an economical off the shelf computerized maintenance management software to help manage the daily assignments, pm maintenance and downturn maintenance. I am looking for a scheduling feature to layout the yearly tasks required by the depart."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Butler, PA

"Must be compatable for use in a sea port. Areas for coverage includes concrete dock surface, woodpile, steelpile, sheet steel pile, concrete floats, highmast lights, backreach areas, water/oil seperators, electrical systems, potable water systems, buildings, fuel headers & piping, waste water delivery systems."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Unalaska, AK

"We have everything from fitness equipment, to daycare vehicles, to grounds maintenance. We are a YMCA."
-- General Manager, Non-Profit, Huntington, WV

"I need software for injection molding to comply with ISO."
-- General Manager, Manufacturing, Ham Lake, MN

"Would like to be able to keep track of all equipment and any repairs or services done to equipment."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Equipment Sales & Service, Gallatin, TN

"Just a program so that we know what equipment needs what done on a regular bases"
-- CFO, Agriculture, Eden, ID

"Would like to interface Maintenance Software package to Plant's Supervisory Control & Data Aquisition Syatem (SCADA), which is Intellution."
-- Consultant, Other Business Services, Troy, MI

"Software must be capable of monitoring and recording scheduled and nonscheduled maintenance."
-- Buyer, Government, Guthrie, OK

"Required for about 50 pieces of equipment and other machinery."
-- R&D, Manufacturing, Brooklyn, NY

"We are seeking to establish All mantenance and TPM programs into one software solution."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Demotte, IN

"I utilize a CMMS progam at a healthcare facility where I have first hand knowledge that such a system is worth its weight in goal. Now I am trying to implement at a public work department for various segments of maintenance."
-- Facilities/Operations, Government, Saint Thomas, VI

"This is for a Church. Three buildings. Want to track consumable and contract Prev Maint costs. Schedule preventative maint.and safety inspections (fire extinguishers etc) Keep track of the various contractors jobs. Identify and be able to inventory "walk away" items belonging to the Church. Have only 1 full time facilities manager. Simplicity and cost are major considerations."
-- Facilities/Operations, Other Business Services, Moraga, CA

"No phone calls please in the process of hiring assistant manager and maintenance, taking rent and filling apartments(25 vacancies)."
-- General Manager, Real Estate, Fayetteville, AR

"We are looking to institute a preventative maintenance program for campus facilities, our campus is over 100 years old so the builing and some of the systems on campus are very dated."
-- Administrative Assistant, Education, Liberty, MO

"We are a mid size tree service, we have roughly 80 pieces of equipment located all over the state of Florida. Equipment rangeing in size from small stump grinders to large tub grinders. We need a program that our mechanic can run out of his service truck off a lap top."
-- Facilities/Operations, Construction/General Contracting, West Palm Beach, FL

"I am the department head over a mid to large size automation system. I want software that is easy to use. I really only need it to generate PM sheets for electrical and mechnical items. I will run it on a single computer with a local printer and only will need a limited number of users, probably five."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Wholesale, Houston, TX

"Drop and drag assets from one facility to another within software, remote move documentation w/ ability to sync with DB, initiate and track work orders, notification/self service web capabilities for customer, layered views for IT, Telecom, Electrical and modular assets, ability to attach/include photo to work order for visual instruction to maintenance, ability to view comparison graphics for existing vs. proposed. Project management software interface. Track labor, materials, charge back and other costs, query reports for spending per facility."
-- MIS/IT, Government, Visalia, CA

"Primarily Work Order Management, Preventive Maintenance Management, Planning and Scheduling, Reports."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Maplesville, AL

"In dealing with a church property, I need contact info for contractors, boiler and filter schedules, painting schedule for all areas of the church. We need outside and inside lists of things for folks to do. No cars of busses to keep track of."
-- Facilities/Operations, Non-Profit, Coraopolis, PA

"Simplicity.ability to enter daily down time of machinery,cause,remedy and store in data base for retrieval of information.daily notificaton of scheduled p.m. whether yearly monthly weekly or daily must meet iso 9000 requirements.Great customer support."
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Buffalo, NY

"We have 20 production lines, major support equipment, we switch & move equipment, we are adding new equipment & processes all the time."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Duluth, GA

"We are a flat roofing contractor seeking software to manage our various accounts. What we will need is software that can handle pictures or manage them somehow. We will be documenting all repairs and maintaining about 20 pictures per client. Is there any thing like this out there."
-- Sales/Business Development, Construction/General Contracting, Muskegon, MI

"Is it possible just to purchase the software or disc and download it myself, or does it have to be done by one of these maintenance management companies?"
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Denver, CO

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