Gavin Kromhout

Gavin Kromhout holds dual trade qualifications as an industrial electrician and instrumentation technician with 18 years of industrial maintenance experience. Across tyre manufacturing, pulp and paper, news print, water, sewerage, electronics and software development. He also covers the role of computerized maintenance management system and database administrator. Gavin is a preventative maintenance practitioner striving for continuous improvement and application of best practice in maintenance management.

Aug 262011
 

Free CMMS Software was once very unlikely since CMMS Systems of the past cost millions of dollars to develop, implement and own. However with the advent of cloud computing and improved software tools this reality has changed. All costs have been significantly reduced and great free CMMS programs are now available. Here we present a list of free computerized maintenance management systems.

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Aug 152011
 

Seriously get your CMMS articles published on Cloud CMMS show casing you as an expert in the field.

If you have experience in facilities management then we would all love to hear your story. If you are a maintenance management expert then you should definitely be published on CloudCmms.com. If you have something to say about CMMS systems or the cloud and database administration as it pertains to computerized maintenance management software, that’s right we want to hear from you!

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Jul 282011
 

What is CMMS and how does it fit into cloud computing? What is Cloud CMMS and how does it help you with Maintenance Mangement?

CMMS is an acronym for Computerized Maintenance Management System. This is a term used to describe the software tools used by maintenance management departments. CMMS software is a type of software application or genre if you like. An alternate spelling is Computerised Maintenance Management System and an alternate term is EAM which is an acronym for Enterprise Asset Management. It follows then that Cloud CMMS is a computerized maintenance management system that is available from the cloud as an internet hosted, web based CMMS or online CMMS software.

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Jul 282011
 

The advantages of using a well implemented computerized maintenance management system are well known. But what are the benefits of a cloud, web based or online CMMS system? Why would I want to use Cloud Based CMMS Software over traditional CMMS Applications?

On top of the usual advantages of using a computerised maintenance system we believe that a Cloud CMMS system can give a few extra benefits to both the smaller and larger enterprise asset manager. Making the implementation of such systems even easier to justify.

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