What do software do in preventive maintenance?

Dear Dana, Do you mean which software is used in preventive maintenance ?

Software in pm, aid upgrading the equipment in question in all aspects , eg safety, performance, operating etc.

Counting time to come,to start ppm.

LE GMAO , c'est La gestion de la Maintenance Assisté par Ordinateur est le soft utilisé pour la maintenance en général y compris la maintenance préventive ,pour le GMAO plusieurs logiciels sont utilisés tels que le COSWIN et le MAXIMO.....Etc.

As a core concept for the software used in preventive maintenance, it is originally considered as an aid tool to help us to approach main target for preventive maintenance "long life for equipment".
It helps us to make records for all maintenance and predict the future failures.
And, as preventive maintenance depend on another aspects, like inventory including stores and purchasing, software help us also to organize our inventory and link it easily to our equipment.
Finally, there is a lot of feature for using a software in preventive maintenance.