We’ve always stressed the importance of equipment maintenance and how preventive maintenance is a viable approach for most organizations. For ensuring maintenance management, organizations use different tools and resources, one of the crucial ones being a computerized maintenance management system. Most CMMS apps fall under two categories — on-premise and…

Modern organizations have several complexities to deal with every day — production disruptions, bottlenecks, inefficiencies, workplace safety incidents, rising costs, and unplanned downtime, just to name a few. While different problems have different solutions, many of these issues can be traced back to a common factor — offline or malfunctioning…

Irrespective of the industry an organization operates in, it shares one common trait with every other organization — all of them rely on several machines and systems to carry out their operations. Whereas organizations that focus on providing services utilize equipment like HVAC systems, alarm systems, etc., manufacturing firms rely…

Even though not all organizations are ensuring preventive maintenance at their different facilities, there’s no denying that it’s one of the most effective maintenance management approaches. These organizations are using the alternative, reactive maintenance, an approach that provides maintenance after the equipment has faced a problem. While reactive maintenance used…

One of the most common goals manufacturing plants have is improving the efficiency within the plants. That’s because in several ways, improving manufacturing efficiency leads to attaining other goals as well — it reduces costs, boosts production levels, reduces wastage, and increases profits, creating a win-win situation for everyone involved…

Contemporary organizations have to utilize several complex and expensive pieces of machinery to stay ahead of the competition, run operations, and make profits, irrespective of their size. However, using the equipment just to carry out the tasks isn’t enough — organizations must ensure that the equipment receives maintenance so that…

Those who work closely with equipment and machinery know some, if not all, of the benefits of maintenance management. For instance, most know that maintenance management helps ensure that the asset runs smoothly, reduces unexpected malfunctions, and reduces safety incidents. …

To be frank, maintenance management is easier now than it has ever been. While many maintenance personnel might disagree with the statement, let’s go back to the past, at least three decades ago. Most organizations opted for reactive maintenance and typically used a paper-based or barebones maintenance management system —…