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
RS Romel Sanchez Maintenance Analytics & KPI Writer · Industrial Operations Research Last updated: April 2026 · Primary Sources: Deloitte, FMX Research, TechRxiv, eMaint 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 … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: Deloitte, McKinsey, ISO 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 … 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
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: NIST, Deloitte, OSHA 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 … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: MaintainX, Aberdeen Group, Deloitte, McKinsey Software demos are polished. Field reality is not. When a maintenance technician starts their shift, they are not thinking about software features — they are thinking about the six work orders already stacked in their … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: NIST, Deloitte, McKinsey 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 … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: Deloitte, McKinsey, ISO 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, … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: Siemens, IBM, Frontiers of Computer Science 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 … Read more
RS Romel Sanchez Industrial Maintenance Writer · Operations Research Last updated: May 2026 · Sources: McKinsey & Co, US Dept. of Energy (DOE), OSHA When facility managers first implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), the initial goal is almost always the same: eliminate paper work orders. While digitizing the daily to-do list is a … Read more
