Energy Centered Maintenance (ECM) is a continuous improvement maintenance approach that integrates preventive and predictive maintenance tasks with energy-focused maintenance goals. The ECM definition can be summarized by this question: "Always maintaining the designed or desired operational efficiency of a system, what are the time interv...
Industrial equipment maintenance as a service (MaaS) is a business model that transfers the responsibility of managing and maintaining industrial machines from the users to the equipment manufacturer or equipment vendors. Instead of buying the equipment outright, the final users pay a recurring fee or subscription to access the equip...
Mobile everything, especially your CMMS.
This is an imaginary but rather common sequence of daily events for a maintenance department. Our goal is to highlight the m...
This article is an updated re-write of our original article published in 2015. This link if left here as a reference only as we are slowly discontinuing the old article site.
Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software is a tool that helps organizations manage their assets, equipment, and maintenance operations. We have addressed what a CMMS is many times a...