Case Study: Utah Department of Corrections achieves maintenance excellence and optimized asset reliability with eMaint CMMS

How eMaint CMMS and RCM drive maintenance excellence at Utah’s prison facilities

The Utah Department of Corrections, which manages more than 18,200 assets and 2.1 million square feet of facilities (growing to nearly 30,000 assets with a new build), needed to replace a 25-year-old legacy work order system that couldn’t support modern maintenance, reporting or energy‑use requirements under Utah Senate Bill 215. The agency faced incomplete and unusable historical data, high corrective work order volumes, and a mandate to align maintenance with reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM) strategies.

The department selected eMaint CMMS for its flexibility and RCM compatibility, performed an asset criticality analysis with Fluke Reliability, and invested in staff training and configuration. The new cloud CMMS enabled classification of critical assets, prioritized preventive maintenance, improved asset performance tracking and condition-based analysis, and helped reduce maintenance costs while laying groundwork for automated PM scheduling, KPIs, and ongoing reliability certifications.

Utah Department of Corrections

Bob Kempe

Facilities Bureau Correctional Administrator