Maintenance Pro

Maintenance Pro helps keep track of preventive and repair maintenance for equipment inventory of an organization. It could be for tracking facility maintenance, machinery, or office equipment.

Pros: Whether tracking facility equipment, office equipment, machinery, or any type of object that requires maintenance, this application helps keep track of the maintenance schedule and also the regular repair work. An unlimited number of asset items could be tracked through the program, a category structure is created to group equipment in a proper order. Color coded entries on the spreadsheet like track sheet shows what needs attention right away. Preventive maintenance schedule of each category can be created, this can be by date or meter.

Meter being a equivalent value for each type of equipment. This can be number of hours of operation for an air-conditioner or straight mileage for a vehicle. One can define periods or ‘season” of inactivity when such tracking need not be maintained. The warning period can be defined too, the period of days prior to actual schedule one wants an alert. Color coding adds value to the alert system further. Red coded entries could be for immediate maintenance items while yellow coded items could mean equipment due for maintenance due in a week, for example. Repair work is triggered by initiating a work order by populating maintenance items & parts automatically and creating a itemized detail of parts & labor too. As details about an asset could be maintained, define fields required for assets of the organization. !00 odd reports can be generated by the program, filtering the data to be compiled into a report is flexible and can be defined by the user. Parts inventory, purchase orders and invoicing data can be maintained easily. An employee database also could be linked to the main data table.

Cons: Like most data based applications, data needs to be updated religiously else the value diminishes very fast.

Overall, a very well designed application, a 4 star product.

Maintenance Pro makes it easy to track and organize preventive and repair maintenance for your equipment. Whether you are tracking facility equipment, office equipment, machinery, or any type of object that requires maintenance, this software will do the job.
Automated and color-coded alerts instantly show you which equipment requires attention at all times. You can easily create different PM schedules for different types of equipment and define your own custom maintenance tasks to track by date and/or meter.
In the Professional Edition, when maintenance needs to be performed, work orders can be generated with a click of a button. In addition, you can save time by having Maintenance Pro automatically populate work orders with the required maintenance and/or parts necessary to perform the job(s). You can also itemize preventive maintenance, repairs, part details, and labor details on each work order.
Track many details about each of your assets for reference. If needed, numerous user defined fields are also provided for tracking other types of information that are important to you.
Maintenance Pro also includes over 100 reports. With any report, you can specify detailed report-filtering criteria to analyze only the data you need.
Advanced features such as parts inventory tracking, purchase orders, and invoicing are also included in the Professional Edition.
Several editions of Maintenance Pro are available based on your needs and budget. The feature comparison chart which is accessible from the main menu screen, will help you decide which one is a best fit for your company. The evaluation download has the capability of representing any of them. Network versions of Maintenance Pro are also available.