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The following is a ‘guest’ post written by TeamWORKS CEO, Craig Drouillard. Happy reading! For the past 15 years I have been part of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software and service companies. The last 9 years have been with TeamWORKS, a company I started to fill the vacuum of inexpensive, world class CMMS. During […]
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We have traveled all over the country working with maintenance departments of different sizes, complexities and responsibilities. We’ve seen great maintenance shops and “not so great” maintenance shops. I’ve noticed a striking relationship between the use of technology and the overall well-being and professionalism of an organization. In short, great maintenance shops take advantage of technology. […]
Read More...Someone forgot to tell your equipment, the equivalent of a large investment waiting to break down, that the budget’s been cut. It keeps running like it always did. No cutbacks, no planned furloughs. It doesn’t seem fair. You have to continue catering to its every need with less money and less manpower but the equipment […]
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Your next step is preventive maintenance (PM). We’ve put our work order process in place and have collected our asset information. Most CMMS systems handle this task in different ways but the basic principle is the same. You will want to create two types of PMs, routine maintenance and preventive maintenance. Why Have Two Preventive Maintenance Types? Routine […]
Read More...Assets is the next step most facilities maintenance managers take with their new CMMS. You have your work orders in place and everyone is comfortable with the new system, so what better time to start the next step in the facility master plan process. Generally, you enter your assets into the system so you can […]
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Implementing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) can be an overwhelming task. We will cover implementation in upcoming blogs (stay tuned!). For now, let’s tackle the topic most people start with – work orders. The first step is to settle on a process for managing work orders. When consulting with new clients, we like to […]
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As I look through records in databases, usually a TeamWORKS CMMS database, I can’t help but notice missing/deleted records. When cycling through work orders or other data, missing data jumps out at you. For example, while “thumbing” through a set of work orders I see work order number 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137. Hey, where’s number […]
Read More...Let’s start with the basics. In a relational database, data is spanned across several tables. A table is setup with rows and columns very similar to a standard spreadsheet. When handling the tables, developers have to account for the time to access the data as well as ensure the data is available to multiple programs and […]
Read More...TeamWORKS hosted training in Lexington, KY recently. The training went very well but there were implementation questions that were difficult to answer. How do you accomplish data collection/data entry for an implementation system to be put in place? Let’s use preventive maintenance (PM) as an example and create a scenario. The benefits are obvious. If you […]
Read More...Web apps are all the rage. It seems users are willing to exchange functionality for convenience. Don’t get us wrong, we see the benefits of web apps. One central server to maintain, they can be hosted or on-premises, and users can access the applications from almost any computer. So why do so many choose a […]
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