The parameterization and register of maintenance assets

1. The Parameterization

The parameterization is the first step to do when we are implemented the CMMS to asset management.
The principal objective of parameterization is defining the basics rules that will accompany the maintenance
strategy and asset maintenance. So it is advisable to take this step with the gold rules. Normally the CMMS
is provider a pre parameterization, you must, however adapt all the parameterization to your specific case
(or each Organization must adapt all the parameterization according its business and what type of
maintenance strategy want to follow).

The structure organizational of maintenance management should, from the administrative point of view,
follow the practice already used in the company to identify the codes and designations of cost centers and /
or customers.

From the point of view of engineering, must be organized by systems, understood as sets of goods in the
functional location of asset that perform a specific technical function. Both views complement each other.

The definition of cost center for each asset and the main work center are the crucial step for the
parameterization of CMMS, this because the asset registration of the any item always involves coding, a
cost center and responsible center to do the maintenance execution, called main work center.

2. Register of Maintenance Assets

In this phase for register of Maintenance Assets, we need to define:

Define the criticality of the equipment, which can be set to: A, B or C.

Normally the criteria to define the asset have A, B or C criticality depends on the score which the asset
receives in a structure evaluation as follows:

Quality: About quality we must answer if the asset is critically to able change the quality of
products or it indirectly affects the quality of products,
Attendance: About attendance, we must answer if the system completely stops of production or
partially,
 Health and Safety: In this topic we must analyses if the asset involves serious proportions about
risks for people involved or not in the activities,
Cost: Related at the costs depend the strategy of each organization, but when we analyses the
cost of an asset, normally we define the criteria which consist in the set of range of numbers:
High (above 500,000.00 USD),
Moderate (between 50,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD),
Low (up to 50,000.00 USD)
Environment: Related with environment, we analyze if the asset involve the High potential for
environmental accidents or moderate.