Other
CMMS systems require double keying of maintenance and purchasing transactions
or involve the review of separate reporting systems to understand
the impact of maintenance activities and costs. Because METHOS is
bi-directionally integrated with your financials you’ll gain
an unprecedented ability to understand and control your maintenance
expenditures.
In the global economy, no company can
prosper with inadequate quality and inflated costs. Maintenance
related costs can average some 30% of a typical company’s total
operating costs. METHOS has been a leading supplier of computerized
maintenance management solutions (CMMS) for nearly 10 years.
METHOS provides users with detailed maintenance
cost analysis at nearly any level of detail including maintenance
costs by machine, by parts type, by supplier, as well as, by labor
category and personnel. And because this information is bi-directionally
fed between METHOS and your financials, you’ll have your finger
on the pulse of your maintenance costs at all times.
METHOS is Integrated with these Financial Modules:
General
Ledger Journal
Processing Purchasing
Accounts
Payable
Prior
to METHOS, our ability to monitor and control our maintenance
inventory was minimal. We now know what we have, where it
is stored, and where it is used. The reduction, in large part,
can be attributed to the excellent information that can be
pulled out of the METHOS system.
Ron Sheldon, Manager, Central
Service, Norton Company
METHOS provides substantial
benefits for your entire organization.
METHOS allows you to view detailed or summary information on all
maintenance activities, asset/equipment history, personnel history,
storeroom transactions and purchasing functions. It provides you
with cost summaries by work orders and tasks, projects, material
and labor resources, department or divisions and all equipment hierarchy.
Maintenance
Supervisor
METHOS enables you to review and
approve work documents and schedules, track work in progress, and
reassign priorities and resources as needed. It provides you with
the ability to analyze problem areas and make improvements as required.
Maintenance
Planners and Schedulers
METHOS permits you to review work backlog and
preventive maintenance schedules, create work plans including material
and labor estimates, assign personnel and materials to the job and
create work schedules.
Maintenance
Technicians and Tradesmen
METHOS allows you to initiate work requests,
record work performed and indicate parts used on equipment. It enables
you to review current inventory levels, equipment specifications,
drawings cross-references and past history of equipment repairs.
Inventory
and Stores Personnel
METHOS enables you to monitor plant inventory,
transfer material, issue/return parts and create purchase requests
to maintain adequate storeroom levels.
Purchasing
Personnel
The METHOS integration allows you
to review and consolidate purchase requests into purchase orders,
and track by vendor.
"METHOS operates as a fully integrated
system to control maintenance costs, reduce inventory, increase
productivity, and prolong asset life."
Mike Albers, Managing Director
of METHOS, Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc.
METHOS Modules and Key
Features
Maintenance Modules
Equipment Management
Fleet Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance
Work Order Management
Standard Jobs Maintenance
Resource Leveling/Scheduling
Purchasing
Vendor Management
Purchase Request
Purchase Order
Blanket Purchase Order
Access Control
Establish Owners, System And
Owner specific tables
Inventory/Storeroom
Parts Master Catalog
Physical Inventory
Material Issues/Returns
Material Reservation
Material Transfer
Charge Account
Monitoring of actual vs. budgeted on life,
yearly and monthly basis
Personnel
History of training, overtime, work order,
performance and timecard
Device Integration
Bar-coding
Imaging Systems
Fuel Monitoring
Hand Held Scanners
Package Integration
Infinium
J.D. Edwards
Custom Integration
Fleet Maintenance
History containing all work orders performed
against vehicles.
Current and historical data for renewals (Insurance, Licenses,
Leases).
Complete fuel history by vehicle and fleet
Gas Depot interface for fuel and odometer tracking
Preventative Maintenance (by mileage, by date, by combination,
etc…)
Warranty Tracking
Technical Benefits
Modular Architecture
UDB DB2 Relational Database
Client/Server, Thin Client and Web Enabled
User-defined Data Elements
Multi-Lingual Capable
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General
Ledger 
Prior
to METHOS, our ability to monitor and control our maintenance
inventory was minimal. We now know what we have, where it
is stored, and where it is used. The reduction, in large part,
can be attributed to the excellent information that can be
pulled out of the METHOS system.