Preventive Maintenance Batching - PM Scheduling the Efficient Way
Does your normal preventive maintenance routine have your team doing laps around the facility? Going from area to area inspecting one thing then going around again to inspect another. Seems like a waste of time doesn't it? You might need to take a look at how you're scheduling PM's. PM batching is a more efficient way of scheduling your work because it groups together like inspections by...
How CMMS Software Can Help Train New Generations of Maintenance Professionals
Historically, maintenance and facility professionals started their careers without formal education on how to do their jobs. Most likely they started as apprentices or hired hands. As time has passed and the roles of today's maintainers has expanded, it's more difficult and costly for organizations to train the next generation if they rely solely on on-the-job training. According to a re...
CMMS Work Order Software Is Not Just For Maintenance Departments!
Perhaps the reason you are searching for work order software is to help your particular department, facilities or maintenance. What a lot of facility and maintenance managers are finding out is that it is difficult to express the value of CMMS software to everyone else when it only directly benefits their department. I’m here to tell you that there are highly customizable and flexible wo...
Why Work Order Software is Critical to Optimizing Your Preventive Maintenance to Corrective Maintenance Ratio
Are you a facility manager that is constantly trying to put out maintenance fires or inversely, doing so many unneeded preventive maintenance procedures that you can’t find time to do corrective actions? You might have found yourself stuck in an inefficient preventive maintenance (PM) to corrective maintenance (CM) ratio. While both are natural functions of any activity, most facilities ...
Que Centre Version 2.0.78 Release Notes
The newest version of the Que Centre platform is finished and slated for release Saturday, January 18th. If you experience any issues with your software instance after the release, please email our support team at support@quecentre.com. Preventive Maintenance Module Added a Work History tab to the edit page for Equipment. This shows all work orders ever performed against the piece of Equ...
How Preventive Maintenance Of Airport Escalators, Elevators And Moving Walkways Can Mitigate Risk
You wouldn’t think injuries due to escalators, elevators or moving walkways would be all too common, but if your airport has at least five or more mechanical transports you are likely to experience at least one passenger injury per year according to a paper written by Cameron Nicolson for the Calgary Airport Authority. The majority of these injuries are due to human error while only a sm...