Maintenance strategies
Everything you need to know about popular maintenance strategies and how to use them to elevate your operation
20 templates to nail your maintenance strategy
A guide to comparing maintenance strategies
Compare maintenance strategies and get a framework for deciding when to use them on your equipment with this in-depth guide.
A toolkit for creating a maintenance program
Everything you need to know about building world-class maintenance plans and schedules.
How to build an asset management policy
Find out why your business needs an asset management policy and get a template for designing the perfect one for your company.
How to build a preventive maintenance program
See eight steps for creating a preventive maintenance program, from setting up metrics to scheduling your work, and measuring your progress.
A primer on preventive maintenance checklists
Learn how to create world-class preventive maintenance checklists so your team can get work done faster and safer.
Preventive maintenance checklist template
This template helps you create a preventive maintenance checklist technicians can use in the field.
Top tips for optimizing your PM schedule
Get a step-by-step guide to auditing your preventive maintenance schedule and finding ways to spend less time and money while keeping failure rates low.
Maintenance schedule template
Build, track, and improve a world-class preventive maintenance program with this maintenance schedule template.
All about planned maintenance percentage
Learn how to measure planned maintenance and improve your maintenance schedule with this key metric.
A toolkit for creating planned maintenance
Everything you need to know about building world-class maintenance plans and schedules.
The ultimate guide to work orders
Read all about best practices for creating, prioritizing, completing, and analyzing maintenance work orders.
A beginner's guide to predictive maintenance
Find out the six ingredients you need to create a successful predictive maintenance program and how to implement them at your facility.
Preventive today, predictive tomorrow
How to achieve predictive maintenance by getting really good at the fundamentals of preventive maintenance.
The no-nonsense guide to Industry 4.0
Everything you need to know about the newest strategies and technology maintenance teams are using to predict and prevent failure.
The secret to avoiding bad maintenance data
Get all the tools for spotting inaccurate maintenance data, eliminating it, and putting processes in place to stop it from happening again.
Complete guide to condition-based maintenance
Learn about the types of condition-based maintenance and how to implement a condition-based maintenance program at your company.
An essential guide to using asset data
You spend a lot of time tracking the health of your assets. This article gives you tips for using that data to improve uptime, safety, and efficiency.
The P-F curve and condition-based maintenance
Read all about the P-F curve and why it's an essential tool for establishing a condition-based maintenance program.
A starter's guide to TPM
Everything you need to know about total productive maintenance and where to start when building a TPM program at your business.
A guide to TPM tools, techniques and software
Read about the processes, frameworks, and technology that can help you establish total productive maintenance (and make it last).
A step-by-step guide to establishing TPM
The pitfalls that often destroy a total productive maintenance plan and how you can avoid them one at a time.
How to use run to failure maintenance
What you need to know about a run to failure maintenance strategy and how you can use it effectively in a complete maintenance program.
What is breakdown maintenance?
Learn about breakdown maintenance, how to reduce it, and how to prevent the impact of unexpected breakdowns.
Preventing future failure with a FRACAS
Find out how to use a failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS) to move from run to failure maintenance to preventive maintenance.
Comparing proactive and reactive maintenance
A primer on proactive and reactive maintenance strategies and how to move your team from fighting fires all day to preventing failure.
Should you be using reactive maintenance?
A deep dive into reactive maintenance and if it deserves a place in your maintenance program or if it should be completely eliminated.
Preventing asset failure with a FRACAS
Find out how to use a failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS) to eliminate reactive and unplanned maintenance.
How to prevent the top five causes of failure
Read all about the biggest threats to uptime at your facility and what your maintenance team can do to prevent them.
Tips for better maintenance troubleshooting
Tips, tools, and techniques your maintenance team can use to be more effective at troubleshooting.
Post-maintenance breakdowns explained
Post-maintenance breakdowns are frustrating, costly and dangerous. This article explains why they happen and how to stop them from happening in the future.
The cure for unplanned maintenance
Learn what causes unplanned maintenance and get some strategies you can use to plan your work for effectively.
Is unplanned maintenance avoidable?
Find out if unplanned maintenance can be totally eliminated or if it's something that all maintenance teams have to live with from time to time.
How to manage the unexpected in maintenance
Former maintenance manager Jason Afara answers five questions about dealing with the unexpected, random, and uncomfortable side of maintenance.
How to build a maintenance strategy
Choosing the best strategy for your assets
Use this in-depth guide to compare maintenance strategies and get a framework for deciding when to use them on your equipment.
Maintenance goal-setting template
Download this template to build a maintenance strategy that aligns its goals, metrics, and processes with company targets.
The Short Guide to Preventive Maintenance
This complete guide explores everything there is to know about preventive maintenance and how to implement it at your business.
How to implement condition-based maintenance
Learn about the types of condition-based maintenance and how to implement a condition-based maintenance program at your company.
A beginner's guide to predictive maintenance
Find out the six ingredients you need to create a successful predictive maintenance program and how to implement them at your facility.
The no-nonsense guide to Industry 4.0
Everything you need to know about the future of maintenance and how to build your maintenance program for success in Industry 4.0.
How to design work orders for a TPM program
Learn how to create work orders and work processes to support your total productive maintenance program.
What is reliability?
Everything you need to know about creating a more reliable business and how maintenance can help improve asset performance.
Exploring reliability culture
Learn what it means to implement a reliability strategy for your maintenance team and what steps to take for it to be successful.
Down with maintenance, up with reliability
What's the difference between reliability and maintenance, and why businesses of the future should focus on both to be gain a competitive advantage.
Improving reliability with the P-F curve
Read all about the P-F curve and why it's an essential tool for establishing reliability-centered maintenance.
Improving reliability with a knowledge hub
A step-by-step guide to creating a digital knowledge hub for your maintenance team so it can boost uptime and reduce asset failure.