Ha!! I obviously had "Bill" on the brain after reading BillWoodruff's post!! Sorry Roger :-O

Gary Wheeler wrote:

Maybe so, but Roger's not in his 20's. He won't live long enough to see it actually work.

I was going to comment on SAP as a CMMS but your comment sums it up perfectly :)

Hi Bill, Have you looked at Maximo or any other off-the-shelf CMMS systems? It's quite expensive (around £4,000 per User) but it does everything you could ever want when it comes to a full Maintenance system (Work Planning, Resource Scheduling, Asset Management, Inventory Management etc.). It can also do the Serial Number tracking on Parts while treating them under a common SKU (my background is in the pharma industry where this is a particular bugbear). I was working on developing a system last year which was put on the back burner which predicts spares usage and recommends stocking levels based on historical &/or estimated failure rates. I would hope to get it finished by the end of the year. If you have any interest in that, let me know. Dec.

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