Whatever the age of your buildings, it’s always a good idea to have an accurate picture of the condition they’re in and how well they’re functioning. Otherwise, you can have major repairs and headaches hiding right in front of you. That’s where a facilities condition assessment can help  So, here’s everything you need to know about facility condition assessments, from why they’re important to how you can create your own reliable and accurate facility condition assessment report.   ..read more

Maintenance is a critical part of owning and operating a factory, and it’s almost always something you can improve on. In this guide, we cover the basics and then show you how to take the next step in factory maintenance management.  ..read more

The best way to learn about preventive maintenance is to look at as many specific preventive maintenance examples as possible. That way, you can easily learn what it is, how it works, and why it delivers so many benefits.  ..read more

Before you can have the best maintenance policies and practices, you need the right people. So, what is a maintenance worker, what do they do, and why are they the most important part of any maintenance department?  And what are the connections between collar color and roles and responsibilities inside the maintenance department ..read more

On smaller maintenance teams, everyone wears a lot of different hats, with the maintenance manager just as likely to be setting the schedule as rolling up their sleeves to work on equipment. But when your operations start to grow in both size and complexity, you need someone on the team focused on all the little details but never losing sight of the big picture. Someone who can not only work with the team but also across departments. You need a maintenance planner.  ..read more

Traditionally, it's been hard to know precisely when to stop maintaining an asset and replace it altogether. Hitting the right time involves a lot of different numbers, and so you're always trying to hit a moving target. But there are lots of ways to improve your aim ..read more

 Emergency maintenance is an all-hands-on-deck nightmare for any team. It has negative impacts on business, causes safety issues or even loss of life. You need to take these situations seriously, and a big part of that is preparing for them before they happen so the team can react quickly ..read more

In a perfect world, there would only be one kind of maintenance. It would all be "already done." But in the real world, there are many kinds, and facility and maintenance managers need to understand the often small differences to carefully set up workflows and balance workloads.  So, what is scheduled maintenance, how is it different from other types of maintenance, and how can you use it to maximize uptime ..read more

Total productive maintenance is a set of processes for maintaining and improving production, safety, and quality systems through the assets, people, and processes that add value to an organization. But what does that all actually mean ..read more

Even with modern, perfectly streamlined workflows, it feels like some tasks don’t justify the admin effort. Should you take five minutes to generate a work order for a recurring three-minute job? But if you don’t get them into the system, over time and once you have enough of them, you’re creating blind spots first in your data and then in your budget.  The solution might be standing work orders, where you can cut admin overhead on some small recurring inspections and tasks.  ..read more