要成為一家以軟件為中心的公司還需要做更多的工作。由此產生的解決方案旨在支持維護人員，讓他們更聰明、、更有效地工作，而不是代替他們。目標過去是、現在仍然是使預防和預測維護變得更容易。
許多使用手持設備的用戶，在他們的設施中也有計算機化維護管理系統(CMMS)。從事電機、泵以及其它廣泛使用資產的維護的公司，通常都有計算機化維護管理系統或工作訂單管理系統。在過渡到支持IIoT時，由于維護經理或規(guī)劃人員已經適應現有的應用環(huán)境，可能會對不斷變化的模式提出異議，并希望繼續(xù)使用現有的工作訂單管理系統來存儲數據。

More needs to be done to become a software centric company. The resulting solution is designed to support maintenance personnel and make them work smarter, and more effectively, rather than replacing them. The goal was and still is to make preventive and predictive maintenance easier.
Many users who use handheld devices also have computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) in their facilities. Companies engaged in the maintenance of motors, pumps and other widely used assets usually have computerized maintenance management systems or work order management systems. When transitioning to support iiot, the maintenance manager or planner may raise objections to the changing mode because they have adapted to the existing application environment, and hope to continue to use the existing work order management system to store data.