What is equipment maintenance software?

Equipment maintenance software or equipment management software is an application that is designed to help organizations manage service and maintenance operations for their assets and machinery. A good equipment maintenance system helps service teams manage work orders, dispatch and schedule technicians, and collect asset and maintenance information.

Equipment maintenance software are available as both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. However, the ease of use and deployment make web-based equipment maintenance solutions a popular choice.

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Why use equipment maintenance management software?

All information in one place

Equipment maintenance systems bring all the data relating to your assets, technicians, and maintenance activities, including details such as warranty, supplier information, location, safety arrangement, etc, into one place. This goes a long way in helping managers plan and make decisions effectively.

Eliminate manual work

Replacing pen and paper or spreadsheets for a digital solution improves your business processes. Instead of struggling to find the latest copy of the repairs log or asking the technician who last worked on a piece of equipment for an update, storing this valuable data in a centralized hub makes it accessible to anyone from anywhere.

Reduce equipment downtime

With equipment management software, your service team can constantly monitor the state of your assets and respond quickly to maintenance requests, prioritize maintenance tasks, and assign the right technicians, to achieve better work completion rates, leading to faster resolution and less downtime for equipment.

Increases first-time fix rates

First-time fix rates tend to have a significant impact on overall customer satisfaction and the speed of resolution. Equipment maintenance software gives field technicians contextual information about work orders and purchase orders so they can avoid repeat repairs and breeze through necessary troubleshooting steps quickly and accurately.

Track asset maintenance in real-time

Equipment maintenance software allows you to get insights on asset lifecycle and updates on the progress of repair requests from the field in real-time so you can take appropriate action when required without delay. Improved resolution times lead to lower costs and better equipment management.

Essential features of an equipment management software

Work order management

Equipment management software offers work order management capabilities that can help service organizations create, manage, and assign work orders all in one place. With streamlined work order management, dispatchers can easily create and assign service requests with simple controls and have all work order information accessible and up-to-date. Service managers can plan work ahead of time to increase operational efficiency and reduce downtime.  

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Maintenance history 

With service task history, field technicians have complete context about previous issues and will be able to identify resolution patterns to help improve asset performance. Your equipment maintenance software needs to automatically record all your current and historical repair information for an asset with service task history. This way, agents can easily share information about pending work, location, previous issues, or safety risks related to your assets with internal stakeholders such as procurement teams and service technicians. 

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Scheduling dashboard

Making changes to one of your machines’ maintenance schedules should be as simple as dragging and dropping a work order on the calendar. A scheduling dashboard can help you assign and schedule jobs from an integrated calendar through simple drag and drop controls. This allows managers to optimize technician workloads and prioritize jobs better. Having all technician calendars in one place also helps managers easily assign the right person for the right job.

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Reporting

To make important decisions based on actual equipment performance and maintenance costs, facility managers need to collect maintenance data and generate reports. Reports also allow you to compare metrics across sites, so you have a full overview of your service operations. Look for an equipment management software that helps you get quick insights into your maintenance KPIs through customized dashboards and intuitive reporting. 

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Mobile app for technicians

Your technicians will be working wherever your machinery is, and that can vary quite a lot, even hourly. So it’s important to empower technicians with a field service mobile app that can provide the latest information about a piece of equipment and add all the necessary data about the work order, such as images or location, to help technicians get started faster. Freshdesk’s technician app enables easy navigation and offers real-time notifications and updates even in offline mode.

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Best equipment maintenance software

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Pricing

Recommended for

Freshdesk

- Work order management
- Customer communication management
- Maintenance history
- Service scheduling dashboard
- Workforce management
- Workflow automations
- Reporting
- Integrations
- Technician app for Andrioid and IOS mobile devices

- Growth: $15 per agent, per month + $15 per field employee, per month
- Enterprise: $49 per agent, per month + $15 per field employee, per month
- Pro: $79 per agent, per month + $15 per field employee, per month

Businesses of all sizes across the following industries: 
- Healthcare
- Logistics
- MSP
- Retail & ecommerce
- Software & IT
- Education
- NGOs 
- Education
- Real estate

Hippo

- Work order management
- CMMS software
- Equipment preventive maintenance
- Equipment tracking software
- Equipment planning
- Enterprise asset management (EAM)
- Vendor management
- Equipment inventory management
- Reporting
- Mobile app

- Hippo Starter: $35 per user, per month
- Hippo Plus: $55 per user, per month
- Hippo Pro: $75 per user, per month

Enterprise businesses across the following industries:   
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare 
- Hospitality 
- Education
- Municipalities

eMaint

- Asset management software
- Word order management
- Condition monitoring
- Maintenance tracking
- PM tasks and schedules

- Team: $69 per user, per month
- Professional: $85 per user, per month
- Enterprise: $120 per user, per month

Large businesses across the following industries:   
- Manufacturing
- Facilities
- Oil & gas
- Food & beverage
- Healthcare and government

FMX

- Asset tracking
- Work order management
- Preventive maintenance tasks
- Floorplan visualization
- Capital planning and forecasting
- Fleet maintenance

Customized pricing

Enterprise businesses across the following industries:
- Higher education
- Manufacturing
- Property management
- Restaurants
- Healthcare

The Freshdesk advantage

Access your account anywhere

Your information is always handy, whether you’re out on the field or at the office. Freshdesk lets you access equipment-related details wherever you are. 

Service and field teams on one platform

Bring your service and maintenance teams connected under one single platform for a complete overview of work orders and maximum efficiency.

Integrate other apps with Freshdesk

Freshdesk fits right into your existing business environment with 650+ integrations available for common business apps.

Frequently asked questions about equipment management software

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