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MM system is an information system. Pillars of maintenance piloting and management, its main objective is to maintain the installations and equipment in the state that they may deliver the expected performance, and that for which they were designed. Despite the increasingly popular auto maintenance policy aimed at compensating for curative action, MM System is indispensable in order to develop the means and methods of anticipating and reducing deterioration and breakdowns.

The main objectives of MM Systems are:
  To maintain industrial means in an optimum functioning state by developing preventative and forecasted maintenance, and reducing planned and systematic curative maintenance.
  To reduce production costs by reducing repairs: by preparing and planning for them so as to reduce the time and impact linked to the stoppages incurred.
  To make optimum storage and purchases through a simplified management for better budget control.

MM systems have their own peculiarity and offer a functional covering in different domains. Nevertheless, strategic axes can be found systematically in the majority of market solutions, these axes are:
  Stock management
  Purchasing management
  Personnel management
  Equipment management
  Case history

Throughout the standards dedicated to this activity (eg, FD X 60 000, XP X 60 020, FD X 60 008), it is the maintenance activity as a whole which is analysed and broken down into the necessary skills and knowledge-base in relation to the different targeted fields of maintenance action.

The maintenance standards are sometimes subject to the request of a compulsory certification to be able to answer to certain industries.