How an IMMP can transform the maintenance management of your facility
IMMP means Intelligent Maintenance Management Platform, and it’s the latest technology available to maintenance managers.
Building on the tools offered by other software like Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software, IMMPs combine maintenance management with artificial intelligence (AI) and integration with other tools and hardware.
More than collecting data, IMMPs turn it into valuable insights.
What does an Intelligent Maintenance Management Platform work?
An IMMP is an intelligent connected ecosystem of software apps and hardware that brings together people, buildings, assets, software, and IoT hardware, enabling them to communicate and work collectively.
By leveraging data to automate tasks, make intelligent predictions, and enhance various maintenance operations, an IMMP can adapt and evolve with an organisation over time.
IMMPs go beyond recording data; they convert it into intelligent suggestions. AI is useful to automate tasks and workflows, find patterns, and bring your attention to things that you might have missed otherwise. Your inputs are still very much needed, but AI learns from them and gets more accurate with the data you feed it.
When you take these two factors in – processing data and connectivity – it becomes clear IMMPs emerge as maintenance’s way of advancing further into Maintenance 5.0 and responding to the challenges in the short and medium-term.
CMMS vs. IMMP: The Intelligence and Platform factors
An IMMP differs from other enterprise management-type software, such as Enterprise Asset Management software and Computerised Maintenance Management System/Software).
Whilst a CMMS centralises information and manages tasks, an IMMP leverages data to automate tasks and provide smart insights, predictions, and suggestions.
Additionally, an IMMP is designed to be a whole ecosystem of resources, integrating with external software and hardware to streamline maintenance operations.
Benefits of an IMMP
IMMPs are powerful, scalable and intuitive platforms that support maintenance, compliance and other functions within single facilities or across entire networks.
For instance, providers with extensive asset portfolios spread across different locations can also utilise IMMPs to enhance control and reveal “blind spots” in their maintenance workflows. Mobile apps can connect field teams, give technicians access to support data and documents and monitor location through GPS coordinates.
- Time-saving: IMMPs feature intelligent AI automated workflows, reducing the time spent planning maintenance schedules and enabling faster repairs.
- Adaptability: IMMPs integrate different apps, tools, and hardware, allowing you to choose features that best suit your operations and increasing the amount of data collected for processing.
- Improved control: Increased connectivity and automation provide better control over operations, allowing you to monitor schedules, tasks, maintenance spending, and more in one place.
- Compliance management: IMMPs make it easier to track standards, regulations, and SLAs, notifying you of upcoming deadlines and providing intelligent alerts for unassigned assets.
- Prioritisation: With a central source of information and data, IMMPs facilitate continuous cost-based prioritisation, helping maintenance managers make better decisions regarding cost and risk trade-offs.
- Predictive maintenance: The flexibility of IMMPs, combined with intelligent suggestions, enables predictive and condition-based maintenance, which is essential for Industry 4.0 and lean maintenance.
- Cost savings: Proper maintenance can result in significant cost savings by extending the lifespan of equipment, reducing the need for expensive repairs or replacements, and lowering energy consumption.
Any company whose operation improved with a CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system can also benefit from an IMMP. That includes those with large infrastructures, such as factories, plants, office buildings, hotels, chain stores, shopping centres, and hospitals.
Ultimately, an IMMP can completely transform the maintenance management of your facility, offering a more efficient, adaptable, and intelligent approach to maintaining your assets and infrastructure.
Should you invest in an Intelligent Maintenance Management Platform?
- Do you need to comply with quality, safety, and hygiene standards?
- Are you having trouble complying with all the SLAs you agreed to?
- Do you think it’s hard to make data-driven decisions?
- Do you manage a large field team that needs to act fast 24/7?
We offer a best-in-class IMMP for all-in-one maintenance management, bringing assets, teams and managers together into one slick, seamless platform.
If you want to learn more about how Infraspeak’s Intelligent Maintenance Management Platform can transform your maintenance operations today, schedule a free product tour with one of our specialists.
