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title: "CMMS Guides for Maintenance Teams — FixAhead"
description: "Guides to the decisions around a CMMS: choosing one, making the business case, rolling it out, and running the maintenance it supports."
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# CMMS guides

One guide for each decision a maintenance team makes around a CMMS, from choosing one to cutting costs.

[<h2>Building a preventive maintenance program</h2>How to build a preventive maintenance program: list the assets, rank them by criticality, choose each asset's strategy, set intervals from its record, and start with a project that can finish.](/guides/building-a-preventive-maintenance-program/) [<h2>Choosing a CMMS: A Buyer's Guide for Maintenance Teams</h2>The criteria for choosing a CMMS, the question to put to each vendor, how the options differ, and what the purchase costs beyond the license.](/guides/choosing-a-cmms/) [<h2>The CMMS business case and ROI</h2>The cost lines a CMMS business case counts, the baseline to measure before buying, the economic measures finance asks for, and what FixAhead's plans include.](/guides/cmms-business-case-and-roi/) [<h2>Cutting maintenance costs</h2>Where maintenance cost can be cut, the order to make the cuts in, how long a change takes to hold, and the parts stock that keeps repairs from waiting.](/guides/cutting-maintenance-costs/) [<h2>Implementing a CMMS: A Guide for Maintenance Teams</h2>The order to roll out a CMMS in: an owner, the structure and data, roles, training by group, paper, and the first weeks after go-live.](/guides/implementing-a-cmms/) [<h2>Maintenance metrics and KPIs</h2>The maintenance metrics worth tracking, how each is calculated and what the record must hold, which published benchmarks exist, and how to choose the few your team can act on.](/guides/maintenance-metrics-and-kpis/) [<h2>Moving from Paper or Spreadsheets to a CMMS: A Guide for Maintenance Teams</h2>How to move a maintenance team off paper and spreadsheets: when it is time, how to set up the asset structure, how to map the import, and how to build PMs.](/guides/moving-from-paper-or-spreadsheets-to-a-cmms/)

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