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Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance Featured

Planned Maintenance: The Basics (+2022 Trends!)

What is planned maintenance? Planned maintenance applies to maintenance activities that are scheduled, planned in advance, or even designed. It is a proactive maintenance approach to building and equipment upkeep. It involves regular inspections, maintenance activities, and preventive maintenance tasks. The goal is to identify and fix potential problems before

What is condition based maintenance?

Asset Management

Condition-based maintenance: Definition, CBM strategy, and more

Asset maintenance, repairs, and overhaul (MRO) are critical aspects to ensuring facilities are efficient, safe, and cost effective. Facility management teams use different maintenance strategies and technologies for different asset classes and use cases to plan, execute, and optimize the MRO process. An increasingly popular maintenance method is condition-based maintenance

Reliability Centered Maintenance

Reliability Centered Maintenance Featured

Reliability Centered Maintenance: Components, Benefits, and How to Implement

Here's a question: how do you optimize an existing maintenance strategy once you implement it to increase productivity and save costs? Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a preventive maintenance approach that focuses on the reliability of equipment rather than looking at it as "parts-based." It falls under the proactive maintenance

Idle Time Featured

Reduce idle time and improve productivity: A how-to guide

Ever been in a cafe where baristas don’t use the latte machine much after sundown? That’s a classic example of idle time when machines sit and wait as there’s no work due to a lack of demand. This idle time applies to machines, employees, and equipment at

Deferred Maintenance

Deferred Maintenance

How Deferred Maintenance Impacts Your Organization in the Long Run

Maintenance issues don’t just pop up overnight. They keep bubbling under the surface of shrinking operating budgets and neglected infrastructures for a long time. Then, maintenance problems grow bigger, and you start experiencing tangible consequences. Whenever you drop important maintenance work due to limited staffing, funds, or time, the

Space Management in Office: Why It's Important, Tips, and more

Space Management

Space Management in Office: Why It's Important, Tips, and more

When it comes to the workplace, there are many things you have to consider. You might think that you can throw your desk in any old corner and call it a day, but there's more to it than that. As a space manager, you must consider your comfort level and

Maintenance for Building

Building Maintenance Featured

Maintenance for Building: Why It's Important In The Post-Pandemic Era

Building maintenance is the Cinderella of facility management – something that receives very little attention yet deserves more. Building maintenance starts the day the builder leaves a site. Failing to diagnose defects and take remedial action on time leads to disruption, breakdown, and productivity loss. You probably don’t like to

What is corrective maintenance?

Building Operations & Maintenance Featured

What is Corrective Maintenance and When Should You Use it?

Every business is more than familiar with corrective maintenance (reactive or run-to-failure maintenance) - the most straightforward, primary, and cost-effective maintenance process. To get started with a corrective maintenance program, all you need are experienced maintenance technicians qualified to perform repairs and the spare parts they need in case of

Best energy management software for businesses in 2022

Energy Management

Best Energy Management Software in 2022

Energy management software track, monitor, and optimize energy usage for your business. There are many reasons why you may need to use energy management software. Perhaps your business is trying to boost energy efficiency by reducing your carbon footprint and saving on utility bills. Or maybe you’re trying to