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Preventive maintenance best practices: how much should you be doing?

When companies come to ManagerPlus looking for our maintenance management software and expertise, it\’s not because they aren\’t familiar with preventive maintenance. The vast majority are already performing routine oil changes, replacing HVAC filters, lubricating heavy machinery, performing safety inspections, etc. In most cases, what they need is for us to assist them in performing […]

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Preventive maintenance best practices: how much should you be doing?

When companies come to ManagerPlus looking for our maintenance management software and expertise, it’s not because they aren’t familiar with preventive maintenance. The vast majority are already performing routine oil changes, replacing HVAC filters, lubricating heavy machinery, performing safety inspections, etc. In most cases, what they need is for us to assist them in performing

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How to minimize maintenance management labor cost?

ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Schedule Compliance Ratio In our last installment, we looked at the first key metric you should calculate when evaluating your maintenance operations: Maintenance management Cost as a Percent of RAV (Replacement Asset Value). In broad terms, this metric indicates whether you\’re spending too much on maintenance. So let\’s suppose you\’ve used

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How to minimize maintenance management labor cost?

ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Schedule Compliance Ratio In our last installment, we looked at the first key metric you should calculate when evaluating your maintenance operations: Maintenance management Cost as a Percent of RAV (Replacement Asset Value). In broad terms, this metric indicates whether you’re spending too much on maintenance. So let’s suppose you’ve used

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Osha announces updates on recordkeeping rule

The following guest post was written by Fositi Marie Athey of OSHAcampus.com The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a final rule on reporting illnesses and injuries, as well as an updated list on recordkeeping requirements in the workplace. The final rule will take effect on January 1, 2015. Under

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Osha announces updates on recordkeeping rule

The following guest post was written by Fositi Marie Athey of OSHAcampus.com The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a final rule on reporting illnesses and injuries, as well as an updated list on recordkeeping requirements in the workplace. The final rule will take effect on January 1, 2015. Under

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Negotiation-Table

Using cmms to renegotiate supplier contracts: information is leverage

The “Great Recession” had an unexpected impact on the relationship between companies and their suppliers. At the depths of economic despair, companies reported concern for the welfare of their suppliers at roughly the same rate that they expressed worry over their own fortunes. Economic catastrophe, rather than straining these relationships, seems to have strengthened them

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Using cmms to renegotiate supplier contracts: information is leverage

The “Great Recession” had an unexpected impact on the relationship between companies and their suppliers. At the depths of economic despair, companies reported concern for the welfare of their suppliers at roughly the same rate that they expressed worry over their own fortunes. Economic catastrophe, rather than straining these relationships, seems to have strengthened them

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Putting workplace management in the spotlight

Maintenance management report: understand its basics

The first phase in any successful rollout of ManagerPlus is to run all work orders, maintenance logs, PM schedules, maintenance inspections, and other primary maintenance tasks through the maintenance management system. Once the transition is complete and everyone is using the system to track, schedule and document their work, it’s usually not long before our

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Maintenance management report: understand its basics

The first phase in any successful rollout of ManagerPlus is to run all work orders, maintenance logs, PM schedules, maintenance inspections, and other primary maintenance tasks through the maintenance management system. Once the transition is complete and everyone is using the system to track, schedule and document their work, it’s usually not long before our

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