Maintenance cost calculations and cost reports in comma CMMS (new on version 1.4.2 (April 2020))

Published 2020-03-31 by Rui J Alves (a 1.4 minute read) | Back to the main page

Some new changes were introduced in version 1.4.2 (April 2020) and it is worth to quickly go through them on this article.

The first thing of note is that, by default, consumable costs are always counted in and costs of non-consumables are only counted in by default if the move is from any other status to "installed". In all cases, however, users have the option to manually count costs in or out. To do that, check the checkbox on the equipment move table inside the work order (checked means cost will be taken into account).

Also new is the ability to add custom costs to each work order. That may be useful so that the system considers costs of work performed by others and for some additional consumable parts bought and used for the current job. The additional costs fields (a total of 2) can be found at the bottom of the costs tab on each work order along with a note field in case users would like to add some note about the cost shown.

The maintenance costs information is now available on a new report on the stats and reports module called "Overall maintenance costs". This report consolidates all costs (labor, spares and additional costs) for a given time period and hopefully can guide maintenance managers to better manage their overall budgets.