Resources
On maintenance management
28 articles on how maintenance gets organized, how a system gets chosen, and how it gets rolled out. No savings percentages nobody can back up.
What you'll find here
Content written for whoever manages maintenance, not to rank for keywords. That means two things: the concept articles explain maintenance, not our product, and where there's a limit, we say so. If you're looking for a guaranteed return figure, it isn't here, and it probably isn't anywhere it would be true either.
Understanding what this is about
The concepts, in the vocabulary the industry actually uses.
- What is a CMMS
What a CMMS is and what a system like this actually does.
- What is a CMMS
CMMS, EAM, APM, CAFM: the acronym map, sorted out.
- Types of maintenance
Preventive, corrective, predictive, compliance and condition-based.
- What is regulatory maintenance
What compliance maintenance is and who is responsible for it.
- Work order templates
What a work order should contain.
Deciding and comparing
For whoever is evaluating and needs better questions than a feature table.
- What is maintenance software
What a CMMS includes, its advantages, and how to pick one.
- Comparing alternatives
The five questions that actually tell vendors apart.
- Which features you need
The features you actually need, which aren’t all of them.
- Evaluating the mobile app
How to evaluate the field app before buying it.
- Benefits by role
What each role gains, including the one who’ll use it daily.
- Building the case
How to justify the investment to management.
Getting it up and running
What separates a rollout that sticks from one that gets abandoned.
- Rollout mistakes
The five common mistakes, and what to do instead.
- Going digital
What gets digitized, in what order, and what doesn’t improve.
- Users and permissions
Roles, permissions and scope: who sees what.
- GMAO for technicians
How to get the field team to actually adopt it.
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Organizing maintenance
Fundamental decisions that don’t depend on which tool you use.
- Preventive and corrective
How to balance preventive and corrective maintenance with data.
- Planned maintenance
Why planned maintenance ends up cheaper, and where that stops.
- Periodic maintenance
How a maintenance frequency is decided and adjusted.
- Planning by criticality
Planning by criticality instead of treating everything the same.
- Work order efficiency
Where time gets lost in a work order’s life cycle.
- Readable calendar
Why a readable calendar saves coordination effort.
- Managing subcontractors
Working with subcontractors without depending on them.
- Customer access
What changes when the customer can see their own maintenance.
By industry
How maintenance gets organized depending on where it happens.
- Building maintenance
Buildings: facilities, obligations, and several maintainers at once.
- Industrial maintenance
Industrial plants: criticality, downtime, and metrics.
- Preventive in hospitality
Hospitality: preventive work lives in the low season.
- Fuel stations
Fuel stations: a scattered network and regulated installations.
- Fleet maintenance
Fleets: maintaining vehicles isn’t the same as managing a fleet.
Frequently asked questions
Is there downloadable material?
Not yet. We’d rather not publish an empty downloads section just to have one: once there are guides or calculators that add something, they’ll be here.
Do these articles talk about your product?
The concept and organization ones don’t: they explain maintenance, not GMAO CLOUD. The decision-focused ones do mention it, because comparing requires saying what a product does and doesn’t do.
Where do I start if I don’t know anything about this?
With what a CMMS is, and then how to choose one. If you already know you need it and what’s holding you back is the rollout, start with the common mistakes.
Would you rather see it than read it?
A short demo of your operation answers more questions than any of these articles.