The objectives of the company in terms of production processes: This question refers to the form, type and capacity of the company, the aim of this question is that you can recognize the productive processes and their relation to maintenance, this will help to synthesize specific need in terms of business processes. What is the technology platform that is geared toward the company: It is necessary that the system you want to choose is in line with other enterprise systems, so you should inquire with area managers on this point systems. In answering these three questions you will have a clearer picture of the scope of your project, for example the last time I made these questions in a company found that:

1. On the asset management company in the short term sought to control the automatic work orders and manuals of assets to minimize the stops on the ground in the medium term should be integrated into all areas of the company to intervene with assets,

long-term should be able to know the costs of maintenance and time indicators relating to assets (downtime, uptime, stop times, hours of repair).

2. As production processes in the short term the company wanted to decrease the amount of roles between production and maintenance in the medium term should be able to submit maintenance indicators related to long-term production and wanted to get to have a reliable plant.

3. The area of enterprise systems had identified that the systems should be purchased web, low cost of ownership and ease of integration with other enterprise systems. Start the acquisition of software is a very complex task, this exercise will serve to initiate the development of the RFP (Request for proposal) that is the file that lists the utilities must have the software to purchase. Expect a new document that illustrates the RFP process to purchase the software.