What is Pencil Whipping and How to Avoid It?
Pencil whipping is a manufacturing term that refers to hastily signing off on work orders or other tasks that have not been properly completed. [...]
What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)?
What is Total Productive Maintenance? Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a holistic asset maintenance strategy that actively involves everyone in the facility – not [...]
5 Benefits of Work Order Management Software
Work order management refers to the process of prioritizing, completing, and documenting maintenance work orders in a timely manner. While this might sound simple, [...]
Advantages of Preventive Maintenance
Preventive maintenance (PM) is a reliable approach for managing equipment on a consistent schedule to lower the frequency of failures. There are many advantages [...]
Building Maintenance: Everything You Need to Know
What is Building Maintenance? Building maintenance includes everything surrounding the general upkeep, landscaping, cleaning, and building repairs for commercial or residential buildings. It refers [...]
9 Ways the Fluke Mobile Work Order App Simplifies Maintenance
Meet the work order app for eMaint: Fluke Mobile, available on the Apple Store and the Google Play Store Fluke Mobile is a smartphone [...]
Predictive Maintenance Software: Best Way to See Failures Coming with a CMMS
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is the practice of discovering when machines will fail before hand and performing maintenance at a cadence that is optimized for [...]
What is the Best CMMS Software? The 4 Key CMMS Features
A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software provides comprehensive oversight of what matters most for maintenance teams. The best CMMS software includes features like [...]
FRACAS: Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System
What is a FRACAS, or Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System? FRACAS is the process of reporting and analyzing failures in a designated [...]
3 Key Disadvantages of Preventive Maintenance
Preventive maintenance is a proactive strategy that relies on scheduled maintenance activities with the goal of keeping assets in good working order and extending [...]