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.
Read the article →Notes on building the product, and on industrial maintenance — written by the team building Maint Vision.
Lifecycle, creation, assignment, mobile execution and tracking: how to manage maintenance work orders with a CMMS, from the first report to closeout.
July 14, 2026 · 3 min readOffices, retail, multi-site portfolios: how a CMMS structures building maintenance, centralizes occupant requests, and schedules upkeep of technical equipment.
Read the article →Scope, data, roles, field adoption: the concrete steps to roll out a CMMS without drowning, and the mistakes that make projects fail.
Read the article →From report to work order: how a request portal structures field reports, filters priorities, and keeps you from losing a single job.
Read the article →A practical guide to choosing a CMMS that fits French-speaking Africa: language, mobile, spare parts, preventive maintenance, multi-site and data hosting.
Read the article →A step-by-step plan to digitize maintenance: asset inventory, pilot scope, capturing what you have, floor adoption, measuring, expanding. Mistakes to avoid.
Read the article →Make the maintenance budget readable: cost components, direct vs indirect, cost per asset, deciding preventive vs corrective on facts, justifying an investment.
Read the article →Corrective, preventive, condition-based, predictive: clear definitions, benefits, limits and cost of each maintenance type, and how to choose by criticality.
Read the article →The real causes of downtime, the cost of unavailability and concrete levers to improve equipment availability: preventive, parts, history, mobile, MTBF/MTTR.
Read the article →A concrete method to manage a spare parts inventory: criticality, min/max thresholds, available vs reserved stock, part-to-asset links, lead times.
Read the article →Maintaining a fleet of vehicles and equipment with a CMMS: mileage/hour-based preventive, per-vehicle records, parts, cost per asset. Complements a telematics tool.
Read the article →The challenges of biomedical and technical maintenance in hospitals: critical equipment, inspections, traceability. What a general-purpose CMMS brings, honestly.
Read the article →Focus maintenance where it matters: criticality analysis, FMEA principles (severity × occurrence × detection), and the link to your maintenance strategy.
Read the article →Hazardous energies, the lockout/tagout (LOTO) principle, procedures and checklists, permits to work and traceability: the fundamentals of maintenance safety.
Read the article →The origin, principles and pillars of TPM: autonomous maintenance, planned maintenance, continuous improvement, OEE. How to start concretely, without dogma.
Read the article →What AI really does in maintenance today (generating procedures) vs the oversold 'predictive'. An honest read on AI in a CMMS.
Read the article →The limits of spreadsheets for maintenance and how to migrate smoothly to a CMMS: asset import, gradual rollout. A migration guide.
Read the article →MTBF, MTTR, availability rate, preventive ratio, cost per asset: the maintenance KPIs that matter, explained and calculated simply.
Read the article →Preventive or corrective? The benefits, limits and cost of each approach, and how to strike the right balance for your maintenance. A practical guide.
Read the article →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.
Read the article →Free CMMS: capped freemium, open source, trials… what the free options are really worth, and how to test a full CMMS with no credit card.
Read the article →The 10 criteria for choosing a CMMS in 2026: simplicity, mobile, preventive, AI, EU hosting, free trial, data export. An honest checklist to decide.
Read the article →A preventive maintenance plan in 6 steps: list your assets, define procedures, schedule, execute and measure. A practical, actionable guide.
Read the article →CMMS: definition, what it’s for, its modules and concrete benefits. The complete guide to understanding computerized maintenance management software.
Read the article →The CMMS market forces a choice between heavyweight legacy tools and US platforms built for someone else. We decided to build the third option.
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