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5/28/2025

Overcoming Government Facility Maintenance Challenges With CMMS

Government facilities face complex maintenance challenges affecting safety, budgets, and compliance. This article explores these roadblocks and shows how CMMS software helps government agencies overcome them.

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5/7/2025

Getting Familiar with Maintenance Standards and Their Impact on Operations

Maintenance standards provide a structured framework for performing maintenance tasks consistently and effectively. In this article, we provide an overview of maintenance standards, their benefits, key types of standards, and best practices for staying compliant.

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4/3/2025

Modernizing Agricultural Maintenance with CMMS Software

Well-maintained farm equipment and facilities are at the center of daily farm operations, but keeping up with maintenance is easier said than done. With complex machinery, tight schedules, and unpredictable challenges, traditional maintenance methods often fall short. Discover how CMMS software helps modernize agricultural maintenance.

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9/16/2024

Making Repair vs. Replace Decisions with a CMMS

Making the decision to repair or replace assets directly impacts your operational efficiency and financial performance and requires a thorough cost-benefit analysis. Learn how a CMMS can help you make informed, data-driven decisions about your assets.

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7/18/2024

Shaping Success: CMMS in Plastics Manufacturing Maintenance

Plastics are indispensable in our daily lives, but behind the scenes of plastics manufacturing lies complex maintenance management challenges. In this article, we discuss the maintenance challenges of the plastics industry and how a CMMS helps shape success in plastics manufacturing maintenance.

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5/20/2024

Addressing Healthcare Facility Maintenance Challenges with Hospital CMMS

From regulatory compliance to 24/7 operations, healthcare facilities face numerous maintenance management challenges. Learn about what makes hospital maintenance so complex and how a CMMS helps healthcare facilities maintenance teams overcome challenges and operate more efficiently.

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5/17/2024

Service Request Management KPIs for Measuring Maintenance Customer Service

Keeping customers happy through timely execution of service requests is a priority for many maintenance teams. Learn how to evaluate your service request management process and empower your team to exceed customer expectations every time.

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4/1/2024

A Closer Look at On-Time Work Order Performance

Organizations adopt many key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure their operational efficiency. On-Time Work Order Performance is a seemingly straightforward metric that becomes more nuanced when tailored towards specific business goals. In this article, we take a closer look at approaches to On-Time Work Order Performance.

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3/11/2024

3 Useful KPIs for Work Order Management

Managing work orders is arguably the most critical aspects of maintenance management, so it’s important to get it right. In this article, we discuss common key performance indicators (KPIs) that show the effectiveness of your work order management process and identify areas for improvement.

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1/16/2024

What is Asset Tagging?

Asset tagging increases the visibility of your organization’s assets, leading to improvements in asset tracking and asset maintenance management. Learn about the benefits of asset tagging and how you can improve maintenance operations with your own asset tagging system.

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12/6/2022

What is Root Cause Analysis?

Root cause analysis (RCA) enables organizations to address the true causes of asset failure, instead of simply treating symptoms. In this article, learn more about root cause analysis, the tools and techniques experts use for RCA, and how a CMMS can assist with failure tracking and investigation.

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9/6/2022

Preventive Maintenance Best Practices

While there are many benefits of preventive maintenance, long-term success can be difficult to achieve. Follow these preventive maintenance best practices to improve your PM practices and increase the reliability of your equipment and facilities.

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8/17/2022

Understanding the Difference Between Asset Availability and Reliability

Asset availability and reliability are two commonly used asset performance metrics in manufacturing environments, and are often confused. In this article, we explore the difference between asset availability and reliability and the role maintenance plays in improving plant performance.

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8/3/2022

What is a Purchase Order?

Purchase orders are key pieces of documentation in the purchasing process, but the added paperwork can bog down maintenance operations. In this article, we explore what purchase orders are and how they work in a maintenance environment.

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7/1/2022

Comparing Maintenance Management and Facility Management

Many organizations use facility management and maintenance management interchangeably, but the two are not the same. Confusing the two disciplines can lead to misinformed business decisions regarding the best type of software for facility maintenance. In this article, we explore the differences between facility and maintenance management.

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6/24/2022

How to Choose an MRO Inventory Vendor

Learning how to choose the right MRO inventory vendor is important for maintenance teams to ensure maintenance operations run smoothly. It involves an in depth screening process and open communication. There are also things to do that will maintain the organization and vendor relationship, which has multiple benefits.

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5/27/2022

5 Labor KPIs for Measuring Maintenance Team Performance

Maintenance departments have multiple KPIs they want to track, some of them related to labor. CMMS software helps gather the data needed to calculate, interpret, and improve all KPIs. This blog post discusses what some of the most commonly tracked KPIs, what the numbers might mean, and what features of CMMS software are used for this purpose.

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4/19/2022

What is Mean Time to Repair?

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) is one of several asset management metrics maintenance teams use to improve efficiency. Learn about what MTTR is and why it’s important, as well as how to calculate it, and how to interpret the results.

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4/7/2022

Equipment Management Best Practices

Effective equipment management is the key to reliable production, reduced downtime, and extended asset life, but many organizations struggle with it. Read about and follow these best practices to improve your equipment management process and support your organizations day-to-day and long-term operational goals.

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3/29/2022

How Maintenance Has Changed Due to COVID-19

Nearly every job has been impacted by COVID-19 and maintenance departments are no exception. From the initial shutdowns to adjusting to reopening with new procedures in place, there have been several challenges and changes that took place. Some maintenance changes have become permanent. CMMS software can help facilitate them.

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2/14/2022

What is Building Maintenance Management?

Building maintenance management is an important, yet often overlooked job function – that is, at least until something goes wrong. In this article, we provide an overview of building maintenance management, why it’s important, and how to better manage the maintenance needs of residential and commercial buildings.

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2/1/2022

What is MRO Inventory Control?

Organizations spend a large portion of their maintenance budget on MRO inventory, warranting the need for better control of inventory. This article examines what is involved in inventory control, its importance, and how CMMS enables you to better manage your MRO inventory.

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2/1/2022

Applications of Barcodes in Maintenance Management

There are many applications of barcoding in maintenance management that provide wide-ranging benefits. Learn how barcoding with a CMMS improves maintenance operations.

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12/23/2021

What is Asset Lifecycle Management? An Overview of the Key Stages

Asset lifecycle management (ALCM) helps you maximize the value of assets throughout their entire useful life. This article provides an overview of ACLM, while focusing on the longest stage of the cycle, operation and maintenance.

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