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Time-based preventative maintenance management explained
Time-based maintenance management refers to a maintenance strategy that involves performing maintenance tasks based on predetermined time intervals or schedules. This approach assumes that assets will require maintenance at regular intervals to prevent failures, ensure reliability, and extend each asset's useful life.
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What is Fixed Asset Management?
Fixed asset management refers to the process of tracking, monitoring, and maintaining a company's physical assets throughout their lifecycle.
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Setting up an Asset Hierarchy - a Guide to Selecting Which Equipment to Include
The exact make-up and format of an asset hierarchy will depend on many factors, such as the type of assets being tracked, their complexity in terms of sub-assets (child assets), the industry, as well as your company's maintenance management and reporting goals.
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Free Maintenance Management Software: The Solution for SMBs?
From small businesses and startups to larger organizations with simplified needs, such as a small number of assets or users, free maintenance management software offers an opportunity to get professional maintenance processes established, with a pathway to taking advantage of more advanced features in the future.
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Maintenance Management Software for SMB's - Five Key Considerations
When considering a maintenance management system for smaller businesses, there are several important aspects to look for. We explore five important things for SMB's to look for when assessing maintenance management software.
Learn more →Embracing Modernity: The Advantages of Web-Based Maintenance Management Software over Legacy Options
While older legacy maintenance management systems served their purpose in the past, the rise of modern web-based software has revolutionised the way companies approach maintenance. Modern web-based maintenance management software surpasses its legacy counterparts in terms of functionality, total cost of ownership, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, without the hangups.
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Benefits of CMMS
CMMS will aid and inform technicians out in the field, as well as decision makers, on maintenance work that has been done, will be done soon, or is planned to be done in the future. Broadly speaking, the benefits of CMMS can be broken down into three categories: management; visibility; and cost control.
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What is CMMS?
A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a software solution that streamlines and automates maintenance management processes, including work orders, preventive maintenance, asset tracking, and inventory management, to optimize the efficiency and performance of organizational assets. But let's dig into the details...
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