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performance Software requirements can dispense with obviprice. This was crucial in early years beous functionality and, instead, focus cause CMMS packages were quite rigid on the more specialized and critical and limited in function. organizational needs. In more recent years, the software The organization’s key task is to has become flexible and highly conchoose a CMMS vendor and package figurable. Furthermore, it’s typically that provides the best value-for-monbuilt on a more open and robust arey proposition, now and well into the chitecture for improved integration PS Hydraulic.qxp 3/25/2008 4:01 PM Page 1 After all, at some price points, future. and implementation. This means user Summit’s Hydraulic Lubricants for Reliability & Selection Summit Industrial Products offers you a large selection of high temperature hydraulic lubricants for most applications including: food service, mining, steel mills, forestry, construction, and manufacturing. Summit’s reliable hydraulic lubricants are available in 100% synthetic, NSF registered H-1 food grade synthetic, fire retardant synthetic, partial synthetic, and bio-based for environmentally sensitive areas. Summit’s hydraulic lubricants can provide you optimal oil viscosity for volumetric and mechanical pump efficiency, which prevents over-heating. Each hydraulic lubricant has the right additive package that enhances product efficiency to meet or exceed specific OEM standards. So, if you’re looking for reliability in your hydraulic lubricant…then consider the many options provided by Summit Industrial Products. Ask for these products by name: Synthetic: HySyn Series, HySyn Food Grade Series, HySyn Fire Retardant Series Partial Synthetic: HyPar Series, HyPar Food Grade Series Bio-based: EnviroTech Series Call today for a distributor near you: 1.800.749.5823 P.O. Box 131359 Tyler, TX 75713 www.klsummit.com ISO 9001:2000 Registered and after considering the cost and pain of implementing the package, there will be huge reluctance to move to another solution for many years to come, even if the implementation was deemed a failure. The two main components of the value-for-money proposition are function and pricing. For example, a small, standalone consumer goods manufacturer with 10 maintenance personnel spread over three shifts in one plant will have a different view of value for money than a large mining company with 30 facilities and 750 maintainers around the world. Today’s packages are priced with greater flexibility in mind, such as paying up front per named or concurrent user, paying per month per user for an ASP or hosted solution, paying an allinclusive subscription price, paying by metered activity (eg, energy usage), or paying for performance such as a percent of savings. Some packages have different pricing levels for different types of users (eg, administrators versus full users versus work requestors). Regarding user requirements, many organizations will say that they’re only interested in essential or basic functionality. This means simple work order control, preventive maintenance, spare parts inventory control and equipment history. In some cases, this is a starting point, and the company will eventually demand greater functionality in one or more of these areas. In other cases, the value-for-money proposition is such that there is no business case, perceived or real, for adding more features. Because there’s considerable differentiation of CMMS vendor offerings along this dimension, the Plant Services CMMS/EAM Software Review online tool has been upgraded to allow users to select either “Essential Functionality” or “Full Functionality” (see www.PlantServices.com/CMMS_Re view). If you’re interested in comparing packages on the basis of price and essential functionality, the online tool preassigns weightings that zero out advanced or specialized features such as handling linear assets, fleets, comApril 2008 42 www.PLANTSERVICES.com http://www.klsummit.com http://www.PlantServices.com/CMMS_Review http://www.PlantServices.com/CMMS_Review http://www.klsummit.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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