Equips vs. MicroMain

Equips is great to handle multiple units at different locations and maintain stats. As for managing 3rd party vendors, Equips still puts some of the responsibility on me to respond to 3rd party invoices. This was well Managed when I first stared with Equips over 3 years ago. As of lately, this seems to be slacking on a bigger scale. Almost every time I make a service call for our color copiers, I later receive an invoice from the vendor, and an invoice-reminder from the vendor. This is currently an ongoing issue which concerns me about adding any more units in the future.

Overall, MicroMain has lots of features and flexible to use as an integration solution in the company. There are some area need improvement. MicroMain support has fast response time and is always helpful when we have issues. The workaround will be suggested for any problems we have. Their development team always find improvement and listen to their client voices to make their CMMS a better solution.

Incentivized

• Handles communication well.
• Easy to use portal.
• Quick response time.

• The design is flexible to set up assets hierarchy.
• PMWO is easy to set up.
• Can manage multiple sites and locations.
• Can manage projects within MicroMain

Incentivized

• I still get invoices from the 3rd party vendor. Equips has inconsistent directions on how to handle this.

• The spec sheet is difficult to set and attach to PMWO.
• Inspection cannot be grouped and is difficult to categorize and assign to each PMWO based on the asset type.
• Part inventory is subtracted only when WO is closed. It should be subtracted as soon as it's reserved by WO or PMWO. This cause the inaccuracy of the number of parts available in stock.

Incentivized

Equips is more affordable in comparison and we still get to use Ricoh through them.

MicroMain has more features and more flexible to use. Multiple locations are allowed. Parts inventory can be set up easily. Asset hierarchy can be easy to manage. Software can be centralized and standardized across departments within the company. We currently use it for multiple product lines across departments and facility maintenance. Overall, it's easy to implement and streamline throughout the company.

Incentivized

• We've saved money by switching to Equips.

• MicroMain helps move from paper-based to paperless system.
• MicroMain helps reduce 1000+ hours per year for technician on administration work and the technician can focus on their real work in production.
• Their paperless system saves 2000+ paper sheets per year used to print PMWO, WO and Spec sheet.
• Parts inventory is closed to real-time which helps PO processing to be more effective.

Incentivized