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Justine RaeFiix Community Team

Supercharge your maintenance strategy

Happy Holidays…and thank you for another amazing year in The Fiixers🎁

As a show of gratitude for all of our members who showed up for one another in 2022 to share their CMMS knowledge and help other Fiix users we’ve put together a little holiday surprise. So, hopefully you have some downtime to check out the 12 Days of Maintenance. Here are your first 6 stocking stuffers: Day 1: Four steps for designing work orders to get the data you want Day 2: The ultimate maintenance gift guide Day 3: How to get your maintenance project approved Day 4: Recommended maintenance podcasts Day 5: How maintenance teams can budgeting effectively during a recession Day 6: Treat yourself with these maintenance themed holiday recipes Click here to access. We hope you find these stocking stuffers informative and helpful during this holiday season. p.s. - the final 6 stocking stuffers are coming on December 12th

2 days ago

Eric WallaceFiix Community Team

Growing as a leader & people manager

Fighting knowledge loss (part 2): the four solutions

Following up on our last post on the value of tacit knowledge and the three common culprits behind knowledge loss, let’s look at four key strategies for fighting back and preserving your team’s hard-won knowledge. Knowledge sharingSince knowledge retention is first and foremost knowledge sharing, we need to figure out how to ease fears around job security and foster a culture of openness. Kathir Haran, a Solutions Engineer at Fiix, offers this piece of advice: “When you’re building a maintenance program out, make sure you have every single stakeholder, including the person turning the wrench, in on that decision.” Knowledge retention is first and foremost knowledge sharing. When maintenance professionals of every seniority level are looped into the process of building out a maintenance program, they see information sharing as a gain instead of a loss. Their contribution is more visible to senior personnel, which turns their knowledge into an asset.The same concept also applies to expe

3 days ago

Eric WallaceFiix Community Team

Growing as a leader & people manager

Fighting knowledge loss (part 1): the three causes

You spend a lot of time maintaining your plant. What about your knowledge? A key team member leaves. A log is filled out incorrectly.A helpful tip is never recorded. In any of these scenarios, the end result is the same—valuable knowledge is lost. Tacit knowledge is particularly vulnerable to being lost. It’s the often unspoken and undocumented know-how gained from doing the same work in the same place for a long time. It can’t be bought and it can’t be faked. Tacit knowledge is the mechanic who can tell when the oil in a lube pump needs changing just from the smell, or the feel of it between their fingers. It’s the technician who can tell you what’s happening inside a machine just by listening to the vibrations. Or that one team member who knows where every odd part is stored. Maybe you recognize yourself in one of these examples.Tacit knowledge takes years, even decades, to build up–but it can be lost in an instant. With record-breaking rates of employee turnover, cybersecurity thre

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9 days ago

Eric WallaceFiix Community Team

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Harnessing the benefits of data and AI powered maintenance

Following up on our post on how data fuels greatness in maintenance, let’s dive into how you can begin combining your data with the power of AI to accelerate your maintenance maturity journey from preventive to predictive maintenance. Understanding the maintenance maturity journeyWhile every journey will differ in timeline and complexity, here’s how a typical maintenance maturity journey progresses: Reactive: You’re starting to record data (typically break-fix operations) Preventive: Now you’re planning maintenance based on time and usage Condition-based: With sensors connected to your assets, you can collect and use equipment condition to plan maintenance activities Predictive: Now modern AI algorithms can identify trends and anomalies without specifying conditions or thresholds (using the data you started recording in the reactive and preventive stages) Prescriptive: At this point, you’ve got an almost fully automated maintenance process. Clear action plans are auto

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21 days ago

Emma MuldoonFiix Community Team

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The five most common types of maintenance triggers

Maintenance triggers aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Matching the right triggers to the right assets takes time and effort, but the end result is a more efficient and reliable facility.In this post, we’ll explore the five most common types of maintenance triggers and share when and how to use each of them to improve your maintenance program. #1 Breakdown triggerThis occurs when a piece of equipment breaks down and can’t be used anymore. When this happens, an alert is triggered and maintenance is scheduled to fix the problem and return the equipment to operation.Breakdown maintenance triggers are a clear sign that a run-to-failure maintenance strategy is being used for an asset. They are also often put in place on non-critical assets that can be replaced or fixed quickly with little cost or effect on production with planned stock availability.For example, a light bulb is allowed to operate until it goes out, which triggers a maintenance order that can be fulfilled quickly because

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23 days ago

Eric WallaceFiix Community Team

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How data fuels greatness in maintenance

If you look at the top businesses in almost any industry they all have one thing in common: data is a key part of what fuels their greatness. It makes good teams great and great teams the best. One of the best examples of this is in sportsThe conversation around data in sports was almost non-existent 20 years ago, as illustrated in these examples:but we can look at a few key examples to see how this has evolved over time: The MLB’s Oakland Athletics used data to pinpoint the right metric to maximize their offensive outputs (and win more games) F1 teams used data to run over 2 billion simulations of every race to figure out everything from the best tires to use to when to pit stop College football teams like the University of Virginia used data to recruit players they think are most likely to make it to the NFL So how does this apply to the maintenance world? In this article we’ll explore the three ways data fuels greatness and how you can apply these learnings to your maintenan

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Emma MuldoonFiix Community Team

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Fiixer Friday: Meet Andrés de Rojas, Manager - Enterprise Customer Success

This week we're shining the spotlight on Andrés 🔦. A fun fact about him is that he loves to bake bread 🍞. “A few years ago I felt all my work and hobbies involved a computer, and that I needed to be able to be good at something more tangible,” he said. “Baking bread is a great way to take a break, and something in your back pocket to contribute something great to any potluck without too much work.”Gluten aside, read on to get to know Andrés ⬇️.❓What motivates you?✨Having a challenge to solve. I tend to go down a rabbit hole whenever there is a question to answer, especially if it's something that people think can't be done but there’s still an optimistic "what if..." to explore.❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time.✨ I like fixing things. We recently bought a house and it feels like there is a never-ending list of small things to do, but if I can choose I prefer to work on fixing a bicycle .❓What do you love about your role/the work that you do?✨ Helping others get th

1 month ago

Emma MuldoonFiix Community Team

Supercharge your maintenance strategy

Increase your production efficiency in five simple steps 📋

While many projects can take months or years to complete, getting quick wins is crucial for building momentum and proving value for your maintenance team.In this article, you’ll learn five processes that your maintenance team can put in place quickly to help increase production efficiency.1. Optimize the frequency of your PMsGoing overboard on preventive maintenance can affect production efficiency in a few ways. It can either waste valuable time preventing non-existent failure or increase your risk of failure by meddling with a perfectly fine component.There are a few guidelines to consider when trying to find the right balance between too many and too few PMs:Use equipment maintenance logs to track the found failure rate on preventive maintenance tasks (Tip: start with PMs that take the longest to do or cost the most) If a PM leads to regular corrective maintenance, keep it at the same frequency If a PM rarely identifies failure, try increasing the time between inspections If the fo

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1 month ago

Melissa MeyerRetired Team Fiix

Growing as a leader & people manager

5 ways to empower your operators and optimize routine maintenance

You want your maintenance team to feel supported in all the work they do. Providing resources and best practices helps them work more effectively, so you can achieve goals quicker, with less downtime. In this article, we’ll explore a few ways you can help support your team's routine maintenance program: 1. Provide other visual reference materials 📚Having things like diagrams, photos and manuals will help guide operators during routine work. 2. Film a video of technicians doing the work 📹Documenting it as a video in addition to any written guides/notes ensures that work is done well without extra training or job shadowing. 3. Create a maintenance type for operator work ⚙️This can help you quickly spot work that operators might be struggling with and from there you can decide whether to transfer the work to technicians or invest in more training (or both). 4. Make sure all measurements are specific 📏Remember: what you think is obvious may not be obvious to your operators. Don’t mak

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Emma MuldoonFiix Community Team

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Fiixer Friday: Meet Liam Pringle, Account Executive & World Traveler 🛫

This week we're shining the spotlight on our Account Executive, Liam. A fun fact about him is that he’s a huge movie fan: his personal favorite is The Talented Mr. Ripley (we’re curious to hear yours – share it in the comments below). Read on to get to know Liam. ➡️❓What motivates you?✨Working with an amazing and talented team leads me to constantly learn new things and grow as a Fiixer!❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time.✨ I’m an avid traveler and have been to 11 countries so far in 2022! ❓What do you love about your role/the work that you do?✨ As an Account Executive, I get to work with a wide range of customers and help them achieve maintenance success. This means always facing new and exciting challenges. ❓What has been your proudest moment at Fiix?✨ When I joined the AE team at Fiix, I had the chance to reflect on how much I’ve learned since starting as a SDR. I’m very proud of the skills and knowledge I’ve gained so far in my Fiix journey!

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Happy Holidays…and thank you for another amazing year in The Fiixers🎁

Fighting knowledge loss (part 2): the four solutions

Fighting knowledge loss (part 1): the three causes

Harnessing the benefits of data and AI powered maintenance

The five most common types of maintenance triggers

How data fuels greatness in maintenance

Fiixer Friday: Meet Andrés de Rojas, Manager - Enterprise Customer Success

Increase your production efficiency in five simple steps 📋

5 ways to empower your operators and optimize routine maintenance

Fiixer Friday: Meet Liam Pringle, Account Executive & World Traveler 🛫

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