Genrec passes SABS audit with the help of Q-CMMS

South African Steel Fabricator and heavy machining company, Genrec, passed the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) standards covering Operations, Safety, Health and Environment. The company's ISO9001 accreditation follows the installation of QBCon computerised maintenance management system- Q-CMMS.

Genrec, a Company part of the Murray & Roberts group, provides steel structures and heavy machining to projects like the Burj-Al-Arab hotel in Dubai and to local projects like the 2010 stadiums and power stations. As an internationally renowned company Genrec needs to provide uninterrupted products and services. To deliver on their promises, they rely on QBCon’s computerised maintenance management system, Q-CMMS.

Q-CMMS is a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS)developed by business solution provider QBCon. Q-CMMS is adapted to a company’s unique needs, ensuring a fully customised CMMS consisting only of features that are valuable to the company.

Q-CMMS keeps track of service requirements, generates schedules, manages spare parts stock holdings, issues job cards and shortens downtime. Q-CMMS also helps plants keep track of which machinery needs to be serviced and what parts are needed. With Q-CMMS preventative maintenance becomes a manageable and predictable part of the business process.

Good governance is finally easy with Q-CMMS. Stock control enables Genrec to buy parts right before it is needed in production. This process ensures that cash flow isn’t tied up by stock that won’t be used for some time.

The automation of time consuming processes and paperwork offered by Q-CMMS saves time and allows managers to monitor the progress of processes and projects.

At the time of the ISO audit, Q-CMMS had only been functional at Genrec for four months. The positive feedback Genrec received after Q-CMMS was scrutinized as a preventative maintenance system proved that the partnership between Genrec and QBCon would be a long one.