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PMC is no longer listed among DPSI's products: dpsi.com now offers iMaint CMMS, iMaint Web and integrations, and the latest PMC release on DPSI's blog is version 8.2 from July 1, 2021. DPSI has not published an end of life notice, so ask DPSI or the customer about their support status. Makini lists iMaint as a separate integration for customers who move.
PMC customers may run any of several releases: DPSI announced PMC 6.2 in January 2013, PMC 8.0 on January 17, 2019, PMC 8.1 in February 2020 and PMC 8.2 in July 2021. DPSI described PMC 8.0 as compatible with Microsoft Access 2016. Ask each customer for the exact version and where its data is stored before you plan the connection.
PMC has no public API documentation from DPSI, and Makini notes that many on-premise PMC deployments have no usable API at all. Your product calls Makini's REST API, and Makini handles the PMC side. Because PMC is on-premise software, the customer's IT allowlists Makini's fixed IP addresses in the firewall or sets up a VPN.
PMC has included Mean Time Between Failure and Mean Time to Repair reports since version 6.2. A reliability product can calculate the same figures from completed work orders per equipment record and compare them with the customer's PMC reports to validate its mapping. Gaps usually point to work closed without an equipment link or labor entries, which the maintenance team can correct.
Makini's PMC page lists work orders, assets, purchase orders, stock, vendors, locations and sites among its models. In PMC itself, maintenance needs start as Work Requests that can be filtered by status, labor comments can carry over to work order comments, and purchase orders default to the preferred vendor. Review a first sync, since fields vary by installation.
PMC writes should come after a read-only phase, and only where the connection supports them. PMC 6.2 added an option for administrators to require electronic approval of work orders and purchase orders, so created records may wait for sign-off. Ask for a dedicated PMC user, check whether it needs its own license (from $2,000 one-time for 8.0), and test against a copy first.
