Janet Jaquis A delayed work order rarely stays a scheduling inconvenience. In a maintenance system, delay is a chain reaction — a missed PM that becomes a corrective repair, a corrective repair that becomes an equipment failure, and an equipment failure that becomes a production shutdown, a compliance violation, or a safety incident. Understanding exactly what happens … Read more
How does a franchise operator keep equipment running across 400+ restaurants and six different brands? The short answer: one centralized maintenance management system (CMMS) handling every work order, preventive maintenance schedule, vendor, and expense across the entire operation. That’s how one of our customers — a franchise operator running KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Tim … Read more
Top 10 CMMS Software for Facilities Managers in 2026 The role of the Facilities Manager has fundamentally shifted. You are no longer just fixing what breaks; you are expected to drive energy efficiency, manage complex vendor ecosystems, and predict asset lifecycles before failures occur. In 2026, achieving these goals without a robust Computerized Maintenance Management … Read more
For decades, industrial manufacturing relied on calendar-based preventive maintenance. While changing filters and greasing bearings every 90 days is better than waiting for a machine to break, it is incredibly inefficient. Operators often over-maintain healthy equipment while missing random, catastrophic failures that occur between scheduled intervals. The transition to Predictive Maintenance (PdM) changes the paradigm. … Read more
Customer Challenge: Our customer is managing over 42 McDonald’s franchises, which can be challenging. Their main objective was ensuring that the equipment is operating at peak performance and that the environments are kept safe. They came to us with the following requirements: • A User-friendly system to manage and organize service requests from all of their … Read more
7 Maintenance Problems You Didn’t Know Your CMMS Could Solve Automatically Most organizations purchase a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to solve one glaring issue: getting rid of paper work orders. While digitizing your daily task list is a massive step forward, using a CMMS strictly as a digital filing cabinet means you are leaving … Read more
The difference between an asset that lasts 12 years and one that lasts 18 is rarely the original quality of the equipment. It is almost always the quality of the maintenance tracking that followed it through service. Tracking — not just doing — maintenance is what converts a PM schedule from a compliance exercise into … Read more
7 Best CMMS Software Tools With Advanced Preventive Maintenance Features Moving away from purely reactive firefighting is the first major milestone for any maintenance department. However, merely setting calendar reminders in Outlook or Excel is not true preventive maintenance (PM). As your organization scales, basic calendar scheduling inevitably leads to over-maintenance, skipped inspections, and inventory … Read more
You cannot maintain what you cannot see. For many industrial operations, the asset ledger is a mix of outdated spreadsheets, siloed ERP data, and sheer guesswork. This lack of visibility leads to “ghost assets”—equipment that is lost, stolen, or retired, yet remains on the books, artificially inflating insurance premiums and tax burdens. Modernizing your Asset … Read more
Every maintenance operation starts with a spreadsheet. It makes complete sense. Excel is free, universally familiar, and perfectly capable of tracking a handful of assets and a short list of recurring tasks. For a small shop managing 20 pieces of equipment, a well-structured workbook is entirely adequate. But there is a tipping point. As your … Read more
