Before it breaks, not after.
Equipment registers, service schedules, work orders, stoppages and spares — the maintenance system for plant, vehicles and machines, costed into the same ledger as everything else.
- →What's Coming Up
- →Equipment
- →Work Orders
- →Reported Faults
- →Stoppages
- →Why Things Stop
- →Effectiveness
- →Spares
- →Certificates
- →Maintenance Reports
Planned maintenance for plant, vehicles and machines
Maintenance is one of the few costs a business can genuinely choose to spend less on by spending it earlier. Vantage Point's maintenance module exists to make that choice visible: planned work and breakdowns are the same kind of record here, so the split between the two is a number you can manage rather than an impression you form after a bad month.
Work starts from a register of equipment — machines, vehicles, plant, and the equipment somebody else maintains for you under a lease. Schedules trigger work by date, by meter reading or by whichever comes first, so a service is raised by the system rather than remembered by a person. Anybody can report a fault, and the maintenance desk either turns it into a work order or closes it with a reason, which means nothing is ever reported into silence.
Stoppages carry four separate stamps: when the machine failed, when it was reported, when work started, and when it ran again. That is what separates waiting time from repair time, and it is usually the waiting that is expensive. Failure codes give the same fault the same name twice so the pattern shows, effectiveness is measured against the shift calendar the machine actually works to, and critical spares are held against the equipment that needs them under one of two replenishment policies rather than a single blunt reorder level.
What it costs to keep running, and what it costs when it stops.
Planned work and breakdowns are the same object here, so the split between the two is a number you can manage rather than an impression.
Maintenance & Asset Care, asked and answered.
Is this a CMMS?
Yes — a computerised maintenance management system, with the difference that it is part of the ERP rather than a separate product. Work order costs, spares consumed and the labour applied post to the same ledger as everything else, so maintenance cost per machine is a real figure rather than an export.
Can it schedule services by hours run rather than by date?
Yes. A schedule can trigger on a calendar date, on a meter reading such as hours or kilometres, or on whichever of the two comes first. Meters are read against the equipment, so the schedule fires on what the machine has actually done.
How does it measure downtime?
Every stoppage records four moments — failed, reported, work started, running again — which lets the module report waiting time separately from repair time. Each stoppage is attributed to a failure code from a catalogue you define, so recurring causes are visible rather than described differently each time.
Does it work for vehicles as well as factory plant?
Yes. Vehicles in the fleet module appear as equipment here, so a lorry's services, work orders and downtime live alongside the workshop's compressors and the factory's presses, and its maintenance cost feeds the fleet's cost per kilometre.
The rest of the system.
ONE LEDGER UNDERNEATH IT ALLTake the high ground.
Set up your first store, till and ledger in an afternoon.