Logbook
Notes on building the product, and on industrial maintenance, written by the team building Maint Vision.
CMMS Pricing: How Much Does It Cost and How to Budget
How much does CMMS software cost? Pricing models, what drives the price, the hidden costs to watch, and how to think in total cost of ownership.
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How much does CMMS software cost? Pricing models, what drives the price, the hidden costs to watch, and how to think in total cost of ownership.
CMMS vs EAM: What’s the Difference, and What Do You Need?
CMMS or EAM? A clear difference between maintenance management and enterprise asset management: scope, target, cost, and how to choose without over-buying.
Comparing CMMS Software: The Right Method (and Pitfalls to Avoid)
Comparing CMMS software without getting it wrong: the method, the feature-list trap and the main players (MaintainX, DimoMaint, IBM Maximo, Fiix).
Switching CMMS Software: A Migration Without Losing Your History
Switching CMMS feels scary, wrongly so. The method to migrate without losing your history: prepare the inventory, bring over the data, roll out in stages.
CMMS for food and beverage: hygiene, cold chain, traceability
Cold chain, HACCP, cleaning, costly downtime: how a CMMS structures food and beverage maintenance and documents compliance, from the shop floor to your reports.
Equipment asset management: take back control of your assets
Inventory, hierarchy, history, criticality: how to structure your asset base with a CMMS so you decide on facts rather than gut feeling.
CMMS or ERP maintenance module: which should you choose?
Your ERP has a maintenance module, should you use it or get a dedicated CMMS? An honest comparison on field adoption, mobility, cost, and integration.
QR code fault reporting: opening the channel to people without an account
The first witness of a breakdown almost never holds a CMMS license. A QR code on the machine turns any phone into a reporting station, with no account or app.
Digitizing industrial maintenance in Morocco
Automotive, aerospace, food processing, chemicals: how a CMMS structures maintenance in Moroccan industry, with GDPR and a French interface.
Maintenance challenges in Africa (and how a CMMS helps)
Power cuts, parts supply, remote sites, upskilling: the real challenges of industrial maintenance in Africa and what a CMMS genuinely changes.
Work order management: the complete guide
Life cycle, creation, assignment, mobile execution and tracking: how to manage maintenance work orders with a CMMS, from the first report to closeout.
Facility management CMMS: maintaining buildings and sites
Offices, retail, multi-site portfolios: how a CMMS structures building maintenance, centralizes occupant requests, and schedules upkeep of technical equipment.
CMMS implementation: a practical rollout guide
Scope, data, roles, field adoption: the concrete steps to roll out a CMMS without drowning, and the mistakes that make projects fail.
Managing maintenance requests
From report to work order: how a request portal structures field reports, filters priorities, and keeps you from losing a single job.
CMMS for vehicle and equipment fleet maintenance
Manage a vehicle and equipment fleet with a CMMS: mileage or hour-based preventive, per-vehicle records, parts, and cost per asset.
CMMS in hospitals: biomedical and technical maintenance
Biomedical and technical maintenance in hospitals: critical equipment, inspections, and traceability. What a general-purpose CMMS honestly brings.
Digitizing your maintenance department: where to start
A step-by-step plan to digitize maintenance: asset inventory, pilot scope, capturing what you have, floor adoption, measuring, expanding. Mistakes to avoid.
FMEA and equipment criticality analysis
Focus maintenance where it matters: criticality analysis, FMEA principles (severity × occurrence × detection), and the link to your maintenance strategy.
How to choose a CMMS in French-speaking Africa
A practical guide to choosing a CMMS that fits French-speaking Africa: language, mobile, spare parts, preventive maintenance, multi-site and data hosting.
Maintenance cost and budget: taking control
Make the maintenance budget clear: cost components, direct vs indirect, cost per asset, deciding preventive vs corrective on facts, justifying an investment.
Maintenance safety: lockout/tagout (LOTO)
Hazardous energies, the lockout/tagout (LOTO) principle, procedures and checklists, permits to work and traceability: the fundamentals of maintenance safety.
Preventive, condition-based and predictive maintenance
Corrective, preventive, condition-based, predictive: clear definitions, benefits, limits and cost of each maintenance type, and how to choose by criticality.
Reducing industrial downtime
The real causes of downtime, the cost of unavailability and concrete levers to improve equipment availability: preventive, parts, history, mobile, MTBF/MTTR.
Managing your spare parts inventory
A concrete method to manage a spare parts inventory: criticality, min/max thresholds, available vs reserved stock, part-to-asset links, lead times.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), explained
The origin, principles and pillars of TPM: autonomous maintenance, planned maintenance, continuous improvement, OEE. How to get started, without dogma.
AI in maintenance: beyond the buzz (2026)
What AI really does in maintenance today (generating procedures) vs the oversold “predictive.” An honest read on AI in a CMMS.
From Excel to a CMMS: why and how to migrate
The limits of spreadsheets for maintenance and how to migrate smoothly to a CMMS: asset import, gradual rollout. A migration guide.
Maintenance KPIs: MTBF, MTTR and availability
MTBF, MTTR, availability rate, preventive ratio, cost per asset: the maintenance KPIs that matter, explained and calculated simply.
Preventive vs corrective maintenance: which to choose?
Preventive or corrective? The benefits, limits and cost of each approach, and how to strike the right balance for your maintenance. A practical guide.
QR codes and mobile maintenance: the field without re-entry
How QR codes and the mobile app remove re-entry: scan the asset, do the job, capture photos and parts on the spot. A field guide.
Free or paid CMMS: what are the free options really worth?
Free CMMS: capped freemium, open source, trials… what the free options are really worth, and how to test a CMMS for 30 days with no credit card.
How to choose CMMS software: 10 criteria in 2026
The 10 criteria for choosing a CMMS in 2026: simplicity, mobile, preventive, AI, EU hosting, free trial, data export. An honest checklist to decide.
How to set up a preventive maintenance plan
A preventive maintenance plan in 6 steps: list your assets, define procedures, schedule, execute and measure. A practical, actionable guide.
What is a CMMS? Definition, modules and benefits
CMMS: definition, what it’s for, its modules and concrete benefits. The complete guide to understanding computerized maintenance management systems.
Why we are building Maint Vision
The CMMS market seems to force a choice between very complete legacy tools and US platforms. We decided to build the third option.