Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast Three CMMS Strategies To Eliminate Redundant Maintenance Work (Plant Services)
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Mar 19, 2026 Brian Hronchuk, principal trainer and consultant at Eruditio who helps manufacturers optimize maintenance and CMMS use. He discusses why CMMS often becomes paperwork and how plants are shifting to full system use. He outlines three practical strategies: reusable PM activities, storing corrective job plans as activities, and modeling resources for outage planning. Short training for planners amplifies results.
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SAP Used As Paperwork Printer
- Brian described early CMMS misuse where SAP was only used to print paperwork that technicians handwrote and stored in a shed.
- That practice created a million-dollar doorstop effect and motivated him to search for better CMMS use across roles and sites.
Create Shared PM Activities
- Do build PM activities once and reuse them by linking the activity to many assets instead of copying PMs per asset.
- Example: create one bearing-lubrication activity, tie it to 500 assets, and change it once for all.
PMs Are Modular Behind The Scenes
- Insight: a PM work order is assembled from distinct modules: activity, asset, and schedule rather than a single monolithic item.
- This modular design lets one activity serve many assets and schedules, enabling massive efficiency.