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Reasons to use a mobile CMMS

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Is mobile part of your current maintenance management strategy?

Is mobile part of your current maintenance management strategy?

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Is mobile part of your current maintenance management strategy?

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Let’s look at 5 reasons you should get started with a mobile CMMS app.

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Rising use of mobile devices

Greater access to more accurate data

Reduced time to data

Faster communication

Finger-friendly design

Entrepreneurmagazine reported that “the global mobile workforce grew from one billion in 2010 to an estimated 1.3 billion in 2015.”

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Plant Services’ 2016 PdM survey confirms the trend, stating usage rates of both consumer-grade and industrial-grade smartphones and tablets have risen since 2014.

With 90% of current mobile device usage centering around apps, why wouldn’t you use a mobile CMMS app?

Source: Flurry Insights Blog

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Mobile CMMS apps, unlike browser-based CMMS solutions, are specifically designed to handle the movements of your fingertips. From swiping to “pinch-and-zoom” gestures, a mobile CMMS app can handle the interactions you are accustomed to with other apps.

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A well-designed mobile CMMS

app gives even greater access

to data that may have been previously

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Offline editing capabilities, for instance, allow you to edit select work orders and easily sync when you’re back online.

Capture actual labor data within any preventive or corrective work order to avoid miscalculating labor hours. Simply start, pause, and stop labor timers while performing maintenance on an asset.

Visually map out your work orders, assets, or parts, individually or in groups with geo-tagging capabilities.

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Rising use of mobile devices

Greater access to more accurate data

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Faster communication

Finger-friendly design

Mobile CMMS apps enable maintenance pros to enter, access, and manage data when and where they need it – without having to re-type the data into a desktop solution at a later time.

One way is to leverage your device's camera to associate images to related assets, work orders, and parts.

QR CODE SCANNINGYou can also quickly create a new maintenance request, look up the history of an asset, or review related safety notes by scanning a work order, asset, or part’s QR code.

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Rising use of mobile devices

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When utilizing a mobile CMMS app, maintenance pros are better equipped to know the current availability of inventory or the latest status of an asset, and therefore, are better able to collaborate on true priorities.

For instance, you could conduct physical counts and research real-time quantities on hand, re-order points, and other activities to control your spare parts inventory wherever you are.

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Rising use of mobile devices

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Finger-friendly design

The Bigfoot CMMS mobile app features all of these capabilities and more!

Request a demo at sales@bigfootcmms.com or 866-858-7800 ext. 82.

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Discover more mobile maintenance management trends and tips on the Maintenance Matters blog.

http://www.bigfootcmms.com/blog/category/functionality/mobile/

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