CMMS guides
One guide for each decision a maintenance team makes around a CMMS, from choosing one to cutting costs.
Building a preventive maintenance program
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.
Choosing a CMMS: A Buyer's Guide for Maintenance Teams
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.
The CMMS business case and ROI
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.
Cutting maintenance costs
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.
Implementing a CMMS: A Guide for Maintenance Teams
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.
Maintenance metrics and KPIs
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.
Moving from Paper or Spreadsheets to a CMMS: A Guide for Maintenance Teams
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.