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This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Leo Tang, DevOps Engineer. He is a give-me-a-coffee-in-the-morning-so-I-can-get-stuff-done person ☕️, that loves summer ☀ and longs to get a furry friend 🐶🦴, but will settle for the Fiix-dogs Slack channel for now (where Fiix employees share pictures of their best friends).❓ What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment? ✨ I met the Fiix product team at an offsite event shortly before I started. I asked the question "Is a hotdog a sandwich?" 🌭 and a few of us got into a very lengthy well thought out debate on the topic. That was when I knew Fiix would be a great place to work.  ❓ What do you love most about the work that you do?✨ Even though I have a very technical role, I like that there's a human aspect to it. How do I provide a solution that solves a problem but also has lower barrier to entry and ease of use.❓ What is something interesting that no one knows about you? ✨ I really enjoy hate-watching movies 🎥. My argument has always been

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Nelson Mark. Nelson is a Senior Scrum Master.❓ What's your favourite memory or experience you've had since joining Fiix?✨ One of the more memorable experiences was someone adding me as a custom emoji on Slack.  Haha! (I suppose there are some Nelsonisms that can be reflected with an emoji.❓ What is one thing you miss now that you are not working in the office?👨‍💻✨ The 3rd dimension when interacting with people, which allows one to delve into the conversation, be it a strategic planning session, to a heated discussion over lunch, to what’s happening in the world.❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time or something interesting no one knows about you?✨ I create home videos as a hobby, and have a few different cameras such as sports cameras, stabilizers, etc. 🎥 .❓If Fiix organized a talent show, what do you think you would do?✨ I’d probably geek out on cars more than show off a talent TBH.❓What is your dream car to own? Does this

This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Grace Yu, Lead Developer for our Applied AI team. She is an early bird that enjoys sipping a warm cup of tea ☕️, watching hockey 🏒& indulging in anything delicious 🍝🥙🍕! ❓ What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment? ✨ I decided to work at Fiix the moment I got a heart-felt warm welcome message and video from the team before I joined. Definitely it's the company culture and the friendly working environment where everyone is respected. 😊❓ What do you love most about your role?✨ What I love most about the work is endless opportunities to get the product better and better.❓ What is your favourite thing to do on the weekend? ✨ I enjoy cooking with my husband and trying different recipes. 👩‍🍳❓ What is something fun that you do in your spare time or any hobbies that you have. What do you love about doing these things? ✨ I like baking and share it with family and friends. It's fun to try different recipes.🧁🍪 

 This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Meraj Imani, Manager of Product Management. He is a night owl that loves getting outdoors for a good cycle session 🚴‍♂️ fuelled by a good cup of coffee ☕️ (jet fuel’s cooler cousin), watching soccer ⚽️ and enjoying a plate of jerk chicken with rice and beans! ❓ What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment? ✨ When I learned about how Fiix approaches Product Management. We do it the way it should be done! ❓ What motivates or drives you? ✨ It is especially motivating when a user tells me a solution we built for them has made their life easier! We get a lot of it here at Fiix 🛠.  ❓ What is something interesting that no one knows about you? ✨  During my teens I was a nationally ranked show jumper 🏇.❓ What is something fun that you do in your spare time or any hobbies that you have. What do you love about doing these things? ✨ My partner and I have taken to winter hiking. It's a great way to get some exercise outdoors during this season. And we

Calling all music fans… We’re building a playlist for all the maintainers of the world and we need your help!  The Fiixers Playlist on Spotify  What are YOUR song suggestions where the title or lyrics are a play on maintenance, repair, fixing, or tools? Do you whistle while you work? What helps you get ‘er done? Sing when nobody can hear you on your commute? What pumps you up for work?  Pop your suggestions in the comments and we’ll add them to our playlist

This week we’re shining a spotlight on member @ryanr who recently shared his big plans with us for improving maintenance efficiency and asset performance at his company, an Oregon-based wholesale tree grower. If you think the idea of pulling data from decades-old equipment seems like a long-shot, Ryan agrees that “it seemed like a very far-fetched idea at the beginning...but then I realized it was a lot easier than I thought”. Thank you @ryanr for sharing this lesson with us! Listen to our full interview with Ryan to learn how his maintenance team is merging new technology with an old-school farming industry 🚜 🎧 The Maintenance Management Podcast with Fiix: Conquering binders, breakdowns, and big change with Ryan Robinson Or read the case study to learn how Ryan and his team went from hundreds of binders to 50% more scheduled maintenance, less idle time, and faster reporting. 📖 Fiix Case Study: How one maintenance team saved hundreds of labor hours with Fiix “Setting up MachineMax a

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Jason Afara, Solutions Engineer from a whole family of engineers 🛠.❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ Fiix gave me an opportunity to leverage my experience from manufacturing to support customers across the world. In this position, I believe I am able to support people and their maintenance teams make a significant impact on their businesses.❓ What has been the highlight or your most proud moment since starting at Fiix?✨ A highlight of mine at Fiix was travelling to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom in 2019 🌍.❓ What motivates or drives you?✨ Continuing to get better each day, finding the small changes that can eventually lead to a major impact.❓ What made you interested in becoming an engineer?✨ My dad, and 2 older brothers have chemical engineering degrees as well. I was fortunate in my position (as the youngest) to see the success and opportunities they were given with that degree. Luckily I enjoyed and was good with math and scienc

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Frank Emery, Senior Product Manager for the AI team. Many of you already know Frank as the face of Fiix Foresight so here’s a little more about him that you may not know.❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ The Applied AI project Fiix was working on was extremely unique, I hadn't seen the same approach taken at any other companies in Toronto and I wanted to get in on the ground floor 🛠.❓ What has been the highlight or your most proud moment since starting at Fiix?✨ When we got our first POC out into production, proving out that our AI tools would work.❓ What motivates or drives you?✨ Doing what people say can't be done, solving problems that people say are too complex or too hard to solve 🤔.
❓ How do you think introducing AI into our product will help transform the maintenance industry?✨ As I always tell people, the goal of AI in maintenance should be to make things "easy"; when we’re successful AI should be acting as an aid to the alread

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Niv Bamal. He is the Lead Developer on Team Sirius and has been at Fiix since 2016!❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a startup that built software for the maintenance domain. Fiix was a young company at the time and did not have much presence on LinkedIn but the idea of building a sustainable world by taking care of crippling infrastructure drew me to it. The tipping point for me to join Fiix was the final interview with co-founder, Daryl, where he shared the ambitious goal of building a cloud platform that will set the stage for modern day artificial intelligent maintenance software. We did not have an AI team then. Boy am I glad I made that decision!❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time?✨ In my spare time I like to read, cook, hike, bike, play ball with Arya and I am also learning to play the ukulele 🚴‍♂️🎶.❓ What is are you doing for your mental health at this time?✨ En

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Michael Onabolu, Business Development Rep & musician extraordinaire! What motivates or drives you?  My drive comes from my desire to make a change in the world, in myself, and inspire others to do the same while pursuing their passions. My passion is to impact the world through my actions and my music .Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have! I love making music. I spend a lot of time writing and recording songs. I also get involved in self-improvement groups like Circle Up and Our Better Selves to always strive to be the best version of myself, and help others be the same 🧠.What is something interesting no one knows about you?  I love anime. Don't watch as much of it lately, but I love the anime/manga culture.Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why? Night owl . I usually can't sleep and will end up hearing lyrics in my head that I've got to write down or record somehow.What made you decide to work

Your Fiix Community Team will be slowing down for the next two weeks with the intention of performing some preventative maintenance on ourselves to recharge and refocus for 2021 🧠 💪 . We understand that not everyone (especially those in maintenance) will get to completely step away. Thankfully, the light in our online community is always on 💡 to keep helping each other.We’ll be back with vigor (and full of cookies and eggnog) to bring exciting new programs in the new year!Until then, on behalf of the entire Fiix Community Team, we wish you a safe and happy holiday season.

This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Roopali Bagaria, Implementation Specialist! She is a night owl that loves tea, watching basketball and has a sweet spot for Tiny Tim’s donuts 🍩❓ What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment? ✨ Before interviewing with Fiix, I looked up the company website and was FLOORED by it's dedication and desire to focus on the environment 🌏 and its people. I knew from that moment on, Fiix was something I needed to be part of! It always had and continues to have a big picture focus 🌠.  ❓ What do you love most about your role/ the work that you do?✨ Being part of Professional Services has been really exciting! Not only have I been fortunate enough to build amazing client relationships but also the ability to travel across the world including Germany and Scotland✈️ .❓ What motivates or drives you?✨My family and amazing husband 💕❓ What is something interesting that no one knows about you? ✨ I'm a major MICRO organizer, even before Home Edit was cool 😉  

MILWAUKEE November 17, 2020  Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fiix, a privately-held, AI-enabled computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) company. Fiix, founded in 2008, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.As the number of industrial connected assets multiplies, the ability to gain insights from maintenance operations is becoming increasingly important to a manufacturer’s ability to gain competitive advantage. This insight enables another level of productivity in addition to the core automation.Fiix’s cloud-native CMMS creates workflows for the scheduling, organizing, and tracking of equipment maintenance. It connects seamlessly to business systems and drives data-driven decisions. The company’s revenue grew 70% in 2019 with more than 85% recurring revenue. Fiix has more than 2 million assets under management

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Princie Reza, Customer Success Manager & song writing-watercolour painting - pro knitting - plant parent🌟❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have.✨During my spare time, I like to make watercolour paintings 🎨. I also enjoy learning and recording acoustic covers of my favourite tunes 🎵. Recently, I started a plant family of 9 (...and counting) 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱. Once in a while, I’ll dabble a bit in photography as well. I like to take photos of my friend’s dog on hikes (she's in one of the pictures) 📸. I knit too 🧶. The great thing about having so many hobbies is that I’m never bored!❓Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨I’d say that I’m an early bird. I like to wake up with the sun. I find that this is when I am the most productive 🐦.  Once in a while, I enjoy being a night owl too. That's when I am the most creative 🦉.❓What motivates or drives you?✨Curiosity and my obsession with self-im

TORONTO, CANADA November 10, 2020 Fiix Inc. and Optimum Fleet Health have announced a new partnership that will help companies track the performance and condition of fleet vehicles in real-time, build a predictive maintenance program that can spot and prevent failure on those vehicles before it happens, and maximize resources across maintenance and operations teams. “Every business is different and shouldn’t be confined to tracking, sharing, and analyzing asset and maintenance data in a certain way. That’s why Fiix is giving control back to companies with its expansive list of vetted partner solutions. Organizations can choose the systems that work best for their workflows, workforce, and business goals, and connect them to a powerful maintenance management platform that extends their capabilities without spending lots of time or money,” says James Novak, CEO of Fiix. Integrating Fiix’s AI-driven maintenance management platform with Optimum Fleet Health’s Optimum VRx predictive mainten

 This week, we're shining the spotlight on Eugene Belik, Senior Technical Support Specialist & BMX biker extraordinaire 🌟  ❓What motivates or drives you?✨Getting things resolved and running. I truly enjoy seeking for solutions that help our end-users operate efficiently 🛠❓Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨Early bird 🐦 Primarily, because I prefer having my things done early morning and I am most productive before lunchtime.❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have.✨At home, I casually play guitar and competitive video games. As for the outside - I have been a huge fan of extreme sports since I was a kid. I've tried a lot of things throughout my life but mainly I ride BMX 🚲 in summer (yes, the small bicycle) and go snowboarding in winter (favourite place in Ontario: Blue Mountains!) 🏂❓What's your favourite thing to do on the weekends?✨I really enjoy going camping whenever I get a chance. If I stay in the city I typically ride my bi

TORONTO, CANADA October 22, 2020  A new partnership between Fiix and Life Cycle Engineering was announced today that will help thousands of maintenance and asset management professionals develop best-in-class maintenance and reliability programs, strategies, and processes through access to hundreds of digital training resources. “Digital transformation in maintenance is about so much more than just installing new technology or software. It’s about evolving the way whole teams and organizations work, from the systems they use to the culture they establish. That’s why Fiix has built an ecosystem of partner solutions that connect businesses to the tools and resources that allow them to train teams, navigate change, become more data-driven, and implement best practices, regardless of where they are in their digital transformation journey,” says James Novak, CEO of Fiix. The partnership between Fiix and Life Cycle Engineering’s Atlas training and best practices platform connects maintenance

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Jessica Martinez-Sondhi, Customer Success Manager & Muay Thai master 🌟 ❓What is something interesting no one knows about you?✨ I used to be a professional dancer years ago 💃 - I've had the opportunity to travel to many locations around the world to teach and perform as part of the dance team I was with. Fun fact: My favourite spot [that I performed in] was Times Square in New York 🗽! Performing in front of that crowd was insane!❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have.✨ I've been doing a lot of Muay Thai lately. I love staying active and working out, so I've made it a personal goal for myself to master some of the techniques with this style of training for me.❓Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨ Early Bird all the way! I feel more energized in the morning and I love having a warm cup of tea/coffee ☕️ with the sun. It's too bad the sun rises much later these days, but you'll still catch me u

TORONTO, CANADA October 20, 2020  It’s now easier than ever for organizations to monitor the health of equipment in real-time, detect anomalous behavior, automatically trigger maintenance activities, and generate in-depth reports on asset performance and condition with the new partnership announced today between Fiix Inc. and Nanoprecise. “Being able to constantly monitor assets and collect data from sensors is not new, but generating insights and actioning them using that data has always been a struggle for maintenance, operations, and whole businesses. We wanted to crack that code, which is why we’re teaming up with a world-class network of partners, like Nanoprecise, that offer industry-specific IoT solutions and connect maintenance teams to everything and everyone they need to turn data into decisions that exponentially increase what companies are capable of achieving,” says James Novak, CEO of Fiix. Integrating Fiix’s AI-driven maintenance management platform with Nanoprecise’s pr

As part of our initial launch of Fiix Foresight this summer -- when we were chatting a lot about the future of maintenance -- we asked some Fiixers to share their vision for what they think the future holds.I 💙 re-watching this video because it showcases some of the awesome people I get to work with everyday and reaffirms our collective passion for what we’re working towards together -- to make maintenance teams successful and be a force for positive change! I hope it brightens your day as much as it does mine ☀️ What would you want to add to this video? What’s your vision for the future? 

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Scott Deckers, our incredible Director of Customer Success 🌟 ❓What motivates or drives you?✨ I always answer this the same way: Leaving the world better than I found it, for my kids. Fiix's B-Corp certification is something that really resonates with me for that reason 🌎 ❓Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨ Both! Caffeine was invented so that parents could still have hobbies. I like to ride my bike early, and then stay up late making music 🎵 or playing video games 🎮 ❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have.✨ I love watching Baseball ⚾️, especially the Blue Jays. I'm getting into cycling as a great way to get fit 🚴‍♂️. One that's really interesting though - I really like to produce Dubstep (seriously!).❓What's your favourite thing to do on the weekends?✨ Spend time outside with my kids, in all 4 seasons. We hike, bike, rollerblade, and generally adventure all the time. There's a Swedish prover

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Chris Mouti, Marketing Design Manager extraordinaire 🌟❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have!✨I enjoy playing board games, hiking, camping, and photographing wildlife in my spare time. My partner and I essentially plan our travel based on where we can spot the coolest animals!❓What's your favourite thing to do on the weekends? ✨Watching movies so bad that they’re good. The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage is my go-to for a laugh 🐝 🐝 🐝 ❓What is something interesting no one knows about you?✨One of my favourite music genres is disco (I know). The ✋bass ✋just ✋SLAPS !!❓If Fiix organized a talent show, what do you think you would do?✨I know way more random animal facts than I should, so I’d probably do a rapid-fire of those 😂 ❓Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨Early bird! 🐦 There’s something about a cool, crisp morning and a hot cup of coffee that energizes me for the day ahead.❓What motivates

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Muskan Sharma, a Mobile Product Manager who is a chef at heart.❓What are some fun activities that you enjoy doing?✨Cooking 👩‍🍳 watching TV 📺 or going for a long walk 👟  Before COVID, I had joined a badminton league and I was involved in ping pong. One of my friend couples has a ping pong table, so we’ll play for 3-4 hours! 🏓 ❓If Fiix were to organize a talent show, what would you do?✨There are so many things I could do! First I would go for cooking, and second thing would be modelling. Back home, I won a lot of pageants - not like at a bigger level, but at my college level, so I would definitely want to try that! 📸👠 ❓When you’re cooking, what is your signature dish?✨Rajma with rice - my husband can eat this any time! 🍛 ❓What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨I was a new immigrant to Canada and I was looking for a job on Glassdoor. I was scrolling through and Fiix had really good reviews, and I immediately I applied for a QA position. Whe

TORONTO, CANADA October 6, 2020  A new partnership announced today between Fiix Inc. and Weever makes it easier than ever for companies to embrace the power of Industry 4.0 technology to connect maintenance and operations, streamline processes, and use real-time data to bolster the health and performance of both assets and staff. “Maintenance teams capture huge amounts of data with Industry 4.0 technologies, but often lack the tools to turn it into meaningful insight and action. We’re helping solve this problem by teaming up with world-class partners like Weever to create a completely open IIoT ecosystem that allows companies to take a leap forward without suffering through months or years of complex and expensive digital transformation projects. It gives businesses the ability to extend the power of their CMMS and use data to organize, optimize, and scale every site, team, system, and task from one platform,” says James Novak, CEO of Fiix. Connecting Fiix’s industry-leading maintenanc

TORONTO, CANADA September 22, 2020  Fiix Inc. and MachineMetrics have announced a new partnership between Fiix’s industry-leading maintenance platform and MachineMetrics’ cutting-edge manufacturing IoT platform that enables businesses to drive turnkey automated maintenance solutions with real-time data from their production equipment. “Maintenance and operations teams should have the power to not only get information from every piece of equipment, task, person, and part at their facilities, but the tools to connect this data, analyze it, and use it to make meaningful improvements at their organization. Fiix is making this a possibility by building a hyper-connected maintenance management platform with the most open ecosystem of IIoT solutions. Teaming up with world-class partners like MachineMetrics is crucial to achieving this vision.” says James Novak, CEO of Fiix. The combined offering between Fiix and MachineMetrics enables companies to deliver the right information to the right pe