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Maintenance requests a simple, yet often overlooked form of documentation that helps prioritize maintenance work. This blog post examines the anatomy of a maintenance request and explores how to create and manage them digitally through a CMMS’ maintenance request system.

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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.

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.

Remedy codes track corrective maintenance actions, improving the speed at which technicians can troubleshoot and resolve failures. When used with failure codes and cause codes, remedy codes help close the loop on failures that occur, why they happened, and how they were fixed. Read this article to learn more about using remedy codes in your failure tracking practices.

Cause codes identify the reason for asset failure, providing context to breakdowns and failures. Organizations that aspire to better manage asset lifecycles must understand failures and their underlying causes. This article provides an overview of the role cause codes play in asset maintenance and failure analysis.

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.

Implementing a CMMS system can seem like a daunting task. Using the 6 steps of change management can make the process easier. There are several other steps in the implementation process, but this is an important one not to skip. Read on to learn what the change management steps are and how they apply to CMMS implementation.

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When comparing CMMS and ERP software, they do have some features that overlap, but CMMS software offers capabilities more specific to maintenance management. Maintenance teams often choose CMMS systems rather than ERP software. Read on to learn more about differences between the two.

After maintenance management software is implemented, there are best practices for long-term use that if followed, will help organizations get the most benefit from their CMMS. These include best practices for the software itself as well as understanding how a CMMS will impact maintenance process workflows, both of which are discussed here.

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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.

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.

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

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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Maintenance management in the education industry comes with its own unique challenges. From navigating large campuses to working around classes and special events schedules, janitors and maintenance technicians have to plan their work efficiently. CMMS software provides school maintenance solutions.

Implementing validated CMMS software is a top concern of organizations in FDA-regulated industries or those seeking other certification. In this blog article, we dive into the topic of software validation and describe a simple process for validating your CMMS.

Throughout most of 2020 and all of 2021, the work environment at FasTrak SoftWorks, Inc. has changed due to the pandemic. To reconnect as a staff, we hosted a company luncheon where we enjoyed tacos and the fall weather.

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Effective maintenance tasks break down maintenance jobs into more manageable pieces, and make it easy for technicians to understand exactly what “to do”. Follow these simple steps to greatly improve your task-writing abilities.