ENSURING ACCURACY

Because a CMMS is seen primarily as a reporting tool, the accuracy of data entry is critical to successful CMMS implementation.

One tactic used by data entry companies is to have two different data entry personnel keying in the same data. By comparing the two different entries, the chances of mistype are reduced. This is similar to how some applications and websites requires passwords to be typed twice to ensure that the first entry is correct.

However, to have extra personnel for entry may not be advantages to most maintenance department who have already huge cost issues. But the concept of double entry may still be relevant for selected pieces of information.

Let’s say for example "problem descriptions" are important to an organization. This field should then be keyed in twice to ensure accuracy.

This can easily be achieved in CWorks because CWorks comes with source codes thus copying the field and table columns to add an extra one is easily done.

Another strategy for accurate data entry is to lock a field to only receive entry from a pick list.