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Harley Marine Uses eMaint X3 CMMS to Ensure Compliance with Safety and Environmental Regulations

Background

Harley Marine is a leading provider of marine transportation services, dedicated to maintaining a safe and environmentally responsible fleet.  Established more than 20 years ago, they have built a diverse fleet of tugs and barges with expanded marine operations on both U.S. coasts.  In 2007, Harley Marine began searching for a maintenance software package to schedule and track work on their fleet of 70 vessels and over 1,000 assets.  They selected eMaint X3 CMMS to set up automated PM reminders and create a comprehensive database of work history across five locations in Seattle, Portland, Long Beach, San Francisco, and New York.

 

Challenge

Since vessels move from site to site, maintenance technicians need access to work history on all assets across the organization.  Before implementing X3 CMMS, the maintenance staff had to rely on short-term institutional memory because they did not have one uniform system for tracking and scheduling maintenance and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations.  They needed a system that would allow each site to record and track maintenance activities while also having information accessible by a system administrator who oversees maintenance processes across all locations.

 

Implementation

Harley Marine implemented eMaint X3 CMMS in 2007 and began scheduling preventive maintenance based on run-time hours, fuel usage, and calendar frequency.  Automatic email notifications alert administrators and technicians across all sites of maintenance activities being performed on all assets and vessels. All system users have access to the work history for any of the assets being tracked in the system.  This way, if a vessel moves from Seattle to San Francisco, the technicians at San Francisco have instant access to the complete maintenance history for the vessel.

 

Results

Harley Marine is currently generating over 450 work orders for both corrective and preventive maintenanceevery month.  Ravi Sekhon, the System Administrator for Harley Marine, noted that the reliable work history that X3 provided has helped the company adhere to their mission of providing a safe, environmentally friendly marine fleet. They are able to readily comply with customer requests for maintenance history on the vessel they are contracting by simply running a report in X3. This was a challenging task prior to implementation.

Harley Marine also enjoys the ease-of-customization of eMaint X3 CMMS.  They have created custom workflows to allow for maintenance schedule deviations when vessels are at sea and weekly management reports that are automatically generated.  Harley Marine plans to track inventory using eMaint X3 in the upcoming months.

 

Benefits

·         Consistent maintenance scheduling for 70 vessels and 1,000 assets across 5 locations

·         Auto-generated PMs based on time, fuel usage and hours run

·         Real-time access to comprehensive work history on all assets across the organization  

·         Automated weekly reports that are generated and sent via email to general managers

·         Helps fleet comply with safety and environmental regulations

eMaint introduces new CMMS Report Writing Tool

One of the exciting enhancements in the latest version of eMaint X3 CMMS is a brand new Report Writing Tool.

Some of the features of the new report writer include:

• Streamlined report setup process
• Faster navigation (reduced pop-ups)
• Advanced filtering options
  

Alex Allen, leader of our CMMS Support and Training Services group, will conduct a tour of the new report writer in this Free One Hour Workshop.

Register Now for the workshop taking place on Thursday May 20th at 2pm Eastern.

We encourage you and your team to attend and learn how you can take your reporting to a whole new level with the new reporting interface in X3 Release 10.2.0.

For information on other X3 CMMS training classes, please call 856-810-2700.

Free Webinar on Inventory Profitability Improvements from eMaint CMMS

In today's economic environment, the pressure has never been greater to reduce operating cost, improve efficiencies and increase dollars going to the bottom  line. Many cost-savings opportunities can be found within your existing inventory (particularly your spare parts inventory), that are often ignored until something fails.  Please join CMMS software provider eMaint  and partner Professional Materials Management as we explore the following; Learn how to quantify the opportunity for your business so you can determine if the effort and cost is justified. Learn where to start and how to develop a roadmap to achieve your inventory management goals. Learn to measure and manage the inventory indicators so you can stay on the path and know when you have achieved your goals.      Register Now for this valuable session on April 29th at 1PM eastern. Several real-world examples will be shared on the 3 steps toward improved MRO profitability: Quantifying your true MRO costs Implementing changes that have high impact Measuring and Monitoring key indicators to ensure success For more information, please call us at 856-810-2700.

CMMS Video from eMaint Enterpises - Getting Started in 5 Simple Steps

Although CMMS software implementations can vary in scope and complexity, there are 5 basic steps that are common to virtually all CMMS implementations.

Mike Barok, Certified Maintenance Reliability Professsional (CMRP) and eMaint Implementation Specialist has put together a 5 minute CMMS Software video that outlines these 5 steps.

By following this simple outline, you'll ensure you have a good foundation for proper work order preventive maintenance, asset management and inventory control.

We invite you to watch this 5 minute CMMS video to learn more and share it with others who are planning a CMMS Implementation.

While up to 80% of CMMS Implementations fail, eMaint Enterprises experiences a 96% customer retention rate.

Helping you be successful is our mission.

eMaint Enterprises Adds New Scheduling Tool to its CMMS Software Package

eMaint Enterprises announced today that an enhanced Scheduling Feature has been added to its premier product, X3 CMMS.

The new Scheduling tool allows for easily viewing and assigning labor resources to the backlog of open work orders on a calendar display that offers fully customizable views. System users can view assigned and unassigned work on the calendar, assign resources to the work orders, make schedule adjustments, and color-code the calendar display for easy visualization of the workload.

The idea for the enhancement originated on eMaint’s “Idea Port”, a popular feature on the eMaint web site where customers can both suggest new features and vote on submitted ideas they’d like to see incorporated into the Maintenance Management Software.

“There are many CMMS software solutions on the market and a high rate of implementation failure,” said Brian Samelson, CEO and founder of eMaint. In spite of that statistic, eMaint enjoys a 96% customer retention rate.

“We believe the IdeaPort, and our ability to respond to customer requests for new product enhancements, is one of the contributing factors to our high rate of retention,” commented Hannelore Fineman, executive vice president.

“The cutbacks many of our customers have faced in this economic climate has them looking for additional ways to save time and money,” according to Gene Pargas, vice president of business development, adding “We believe the enhanced Scheduling tool helps meet that need.”

eMaint utilizes a Web-Based Software deployment model known as Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, to deliver its on-demand computerized maintenance management system, eMaint X3. The SaaS model enables eMaint to seamlessly deploy system upgrades like the Scheduler tool to all of its online customers at no added cost. “This is one of the advantages of the SaaS model that lowers the total cost of ownership for our customer,” added Fineman.

About eMaint Enterprises, LLC
Established in 1986, eMaint is a recognized market leader in enterprise asset management (EAM) and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). eMaint delivers on-demand CMMS solutions that enable organizations worldwide to manage and control maintenance and repair operations. For more information on eMaint CMMS product and services, please visit the eMaint web site.