Bar none, the greatest drawing card to Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) is the preventive maintenance plan system feature. When CMMSs first made their appearance approximately 50 years ago, preventive maintenance scheduling was not even on the radar screen. By today’s standards, maintenance management software functions were rudimentary. The early versions were math-based systems that were designed strictly to help business owners document, standardize, and verify manufacturing processes. While early CMMSs were a great improvement over “pencil and paper” approaches, they actually didn’t accomplish a lot more than spreadsheet software programs such as Microsoft Excel, Lotus 123 and Google Sheets that began to emerge during the late 1970s. Here, I discuss how CMMSs evolved across time as well as more recent developments in preventive maintenance systems.
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