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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Maintenance Software And More

By Brenton Deridder


In all correctional institutions, it is crucial for preventative maintenance to be performed regularly. This ensures the well-being of inmates, penal workers, and the general public. If prisons and other correctional facilities did not perform preventative maintenance tasks regularly, they would not know a problem existed until a prisoner escaped or a another serious situation occurred. If preventative maintenance is done correctly, these types of situations can be avoided entirely.

There have, at certain points, been debates in state governments about the amount of money correctional facilities should be allotted to purchase computerized maintenance management software, also called CMMS. Though this software is often costly, it vastly improves the facilities' abilities to perform effective preventative maintenance. CMMS allows correctional institutions to repair any maintenance issues before they give rise to dangerous circumstances.

To help maintenance software function most effectively in correctional institutions, every facility in a given state should have access to the same system. Since all correctional facilities within a state are closely connected, it is crucial for each institution to use identical preventive maintenance plans. This way, if there is ever a serious emergency, the facilities can easily work together. Furthermore, if each facility follows the same preventative maintenance plan, none should be in noticeably worse condition than any of the others. In order to ensure that every correctional in a state is functioning correctly, a standardized maintenance plan is key.

Preventative maintenance serves a variety of purposes in a correctional institution setting. Two important goals are to eradicate the need for emergency repairs of machinery and to ensure that certain items within the maintenance program are updated automatically. If a piece of machinery can be repaired before its problem progresses too far, there is a greater chance that it will only need to be turned off for a short time. This lessens the chance that inmates will take advantage of the situation and do something rash. Additionally, by setting the inventory to automatically update, correctional facilities' maintenance departments can ensure that they never run out of necessary replacement parts.

One correctional facility's preventative maintenance requirements might be slightly different from those of another institution. Though every correctional facility in a state should have access to identical maintenance software, they should also be customizing certain tools to fit their individual necessities. For instance, a maximum-security prison will have different maintenance requirements than a minimum-security juvenile facility. For preventative maintenance tasks to be completed successfully, it is important for institutions to recognize these differences. Workers within the penal system must take preventative maintenance seriously and ensure that all necessary tasks are completed in a timely fashion.




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