Computerized Maintenance Management Software

With computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) you can easily do the reporting and the analysis. There are software manufacturers who provide you with simple and easy to use modules for your individual requirements. Modules for maintaining assets work order, history of transactions, managing maintenance policies, different offices and locations from within the single module, invoicing, readings of different equipment, and permits for doing the maintenance work are available separately. These modules are integrated in full-fledged maintenance management software. The most vital module for maintenance management software is the reporting module. The reporting module is important to monitor the progress of the maintenance work and also to help you improve your work.


What ever be the number of equipments you have in your factory or office, it is better to have maintenance management software to track the maintenance work of those equipments. Since this software makes the maintenance management easy you are free to use the time saved, on other tasks in hand. Software companies also can have such maintenance software to keep track of their software, associated licenses, and the number of installs. Web based computerized maintenance management software is also available with different types of services from many companies. You can avail these services if your factory or offices are located in different locations within your country or in different countries.

With web based CMMS all you need is a browser and an internet connection to use this software. The details of transactions and records, in a web based Cmms Software, are maintained in a centralized server and the users will be using this data through the browser. There is no need for custom built client software for most of web based maintenance management software. Organizations that have multiple offices and factory locations can benefit from a web based maintenance management software. For different types of maintenance management software that is available in the market



The numbers add up, so strategies for managing holidays call for planning. A few tips:
Westerners often need to engage in expectation and sanity management around the Chinese holiday time. Pressure concepts like pay a higher price to get some overtime work, or "they just have to work or we'll lose the contract," simply do not apply.

Plan the entire year with the holidays in mind.
Think not only about the China holidays, but also about what holidays you need to be aware of in your home country or in foreign markets.
Be clear on terms of operation. Many contracts will include a definition of "work days" a factory should follow.

Plan to have what ever you need done, quoted, shipped, packed, inspected, produced and/or delivered to be done the week before the holiday knowing that every day you go closer to the holiday you are living on borrowed time. Take the attitude that what you get done in the week before the holiday is really not early.

Communicate clearly to your customers that there is an upcoming holiday. Do not just assume they will remember the holiday time frame here in China. You might also stress the importance of holidays and traveling to be with family here (particularly the Chinese New Year).

Make sure your factory is taking care of you before the holiday. If your business uses workers who are paid or receive a bonus for piecework production, those workers may leave for home earlier than salaried workers. So administrative staff may be available, but work may slow or stop in the days before the holiday. If progress is slow and there is pressure, be sure your order isn't the one that gets bumped for completion after the holiday. A good relationship and pre-holiday visits to your supplier can help avoid this problem.

If your shipment date is just before or during a holiday, be sure to allow extra days for it to clear and be processed through customs. Customs officials do work right up to and through a portion of a holiday, but the pace slows significantly.
Getting shipping papers, buying quotas (for textiles) and VAT rebates all slow normal processes of business before a holiday.

If you are trying to clear a letter of credit or a wire transfer you will need extra days just before and after a holiday. Domestic transactions can be cleared over the holidays, but international transactions are more difficult to complete.
If you are traveling in China during a holiday, remember that it can be more crowded, expensive and slower than norma

our business solves. Next we have to find out if the prospect truly believes that a problem exists (and it’s important to let the prospect be the judge.)

If the prospect believes that there is a problem, and that the problem is likely to cause monetary or emotional sacrifices, he or she will be more open to having someone who can be trusted help solve the problem. In other words, the prospect begins to close the deal.

Your prospect will begin to convince and influence you that there is a need for your help. He or she will become the source of the sales presentation and the close. As backwards sounding as this may seem… it’s really the way it works.

Because the responsibility of convincing and influencing is assumed willingly by the prospect nearly all of the stress and negativity we associate with selling literally disappears.

Use this approach to selling and you’ll see a big difference. Instead of a day filled with trying to sell things to people, you will get to solve people’s problems. This is a much more enjoyable way to approach the selling part of your business.

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