Maintenance
Explore the latest articles, analysis, and execution strategies regarding Maintenance in modern facilities management.
NYC Local Law 97. California AB 802. Washington CBPS. Building Performance Standards Now Require Data Your Current System Probably Can’t Produce
Could your operation report, today, its actual energy performance per building — measured, continuous, and in the format a regulator…
Read Article →The PM Was Signed Off. The Work Was Never Done. — Why Verification Can’t Live in the Same System That Created the Work Order
The compressor seized on a Thursday in July, eleven months into a fifteen-year design life’s final stretch — early, but…
Read Article →A Single Non-Compliant Item: $16,550 Per Occurrence. The System That Prevents It Costs Less Than One Violation
Here is what OSHA’s penalty structure means in operational terms, stripped of the legal language: a serious violation costs $16,550.…
Read Article →38-45% of Every Maintenance Budget Goes to Emergency Repairs — Not Because the Team Failed, But Because the Scheduling Model Did
Pull a dollar out of your maintenance budget and follow it. If your operation looks like most, somewhere between 38…
Read Article →The Deferred Maintenance Backlog Builds $200 at a Time: How Automated PM Scheduling Is the Only Thing That Interrupts the Pattern
Nobody has ever deferred a million dollars of maintenance. It’s not a decision that exists. What exists is a $200…
Read Article →64% of Facility Teams Still Use a Spreadsheet for PM Tracking — and Why That’s a Data Infrastructure Problem Before It’s a Technology Problem
Roughly two out of three facility teams still run preventive maintenance out of a spreadsheet. Sit with the number before…
Read Article →The Difference Between a Maintenance Budget and a Record of Emergencies — and How Automated PM Scheduling Changes That Ratio
Take any commercial operation’s maintenance ledger and sort it into two piles: work that was planned, and work that was…
Read Article →Your Total Maintenance Spend Last Year: One Number. What That Number Doesn’t Tell You — and What a Real Dashboard Does
Here’s a question that sounds simple: was your maintenance spend last year well spent? Not how much — you have…
Read Article →The Vendor List in Someone’s Phone: Why Institutional Knowledge Needs to Live in a System, Not a Person
Somewhere in your operation there’s an asset worth six figures that has never been valued, insured, or backed up. It’s…
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