CMMS Maintenance Care Blog

If there's one piece of equipment we can pretty much guarantee your facility hasn't used since last winter it's your snowblower. With November here, the snow could start falling at any time (if it hasn't already in some areas), which means your snowblower's time to shine could be coming soon.

Managing a maintenance department for a property is hard work. You have to worry not just about the function and safety of the building itself, but also about keeping the customers who use the facility happy. With so much going on at the property every day, it can seem like there are infinite maintenance tasks, which makes organizing and tracking them difficult – never mind scheduling any preventative maintenance tasks.

So you’ve taken the first step towards improving your maintenance management program by investing in a CMMS. Of course, you’re excited to have team members get started using it, but there’s one question you have to answer first: which team members should be able to use it?

The Maintenance Care Team is happy to announce that we have added eight brand new features to our CMMS. With these new additions, we’re hoping to make work order management even more effective and efficient for users and maintenance teams. The biggest additions, a new Email Client and Smart Work Order Duplication Checker are completely free additions to our Work Order Edition and Enterprise Edition users.

Maintenance technicians keep facilities working. They keep track of work orders, preventative maintenance, asset tracking, and the general upkeep of the facility. Facilities could range from large manufacturing plants to small buildings.  Maintenance technicians are always in high demand.

So you’ve decided your maintenance department needs to start using a CMMS. As a maintenance manager, you’ve done the research, and you know the best way to eliminate inefficiencies and make your team’s work day a lot easier is to invest in maintenance management software. So you head to your boss’s office and tell them you want to buy a CMMS. They say no. It’s an unnecessary expense. If it’s working to just use pen and paper or email right now, then why spend money to change that? That did not go as planned.

As a Facility Maintenance Manager, you always have a lot going on. From organizing all of your technicians, to capital planning, to managing parts and inventory, to analyzing reports, and more you have a lot on your plate at all times. It’s critical that you stay organized and on track if you want to keep your facility running safely and efficiently, not to mention if you want to maintain a high maintenance ROI.

Everyone has been there – you’re on a trip to a theme park and a certain ride you’ve been looking forward to is down for maintenance. Or you’re staying at a hotel and your kids head excitedly down to the swimming pool only to find it closed for repairs or cleaning. For customers, this can be very frustrating.