Define Up to 999 Plants or Other Top-Level Entities.
MaintSmart is completely flexible to any maintenance operation. In this case two manufacturing plants are defined. Each of these plants contain departments, production lines, equipment and personnel. MaintSmart is NOT limited to manufacturing environments though! For example suppose you manage a vehicle maintenance operation. Your company rents vehicles and your are charged with maintaining them. In this case plants might be defined as fleets. These fleets could perhaps be cars, trucks, trailers, etc. In any event their data could then be seperated and evaluated as seperate entities if you wish.
The point is defining plants allows you the opportunity to seperate data from other plants or top-level entities if you need to. If you don't need to seperate data in this way you don't have to. MaintSmart works just as well with one plant or top-level entity as it does with 999. The benefit of seperating data into multiple top-level entities is that users from one entity may be restricted from accessing or changing adat from another entity. This restriction may be waived or set in the Configuration section of MaintSmart.
MaintSmart groups all of its components in a logical hierachy. Top-level entities (plants) contain production lines, personnel and equipment. Production lines contain departments,etc. Most MaintSmart users only need one top-level entity.