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Every organization, regardless of size, has assets which are operated and maintained. The ability of leadership to extract value from these assets is a key factor in their success. Leadership is also responsible for providing a clear vision of what the goals of the organization are. Asset intensive organizations will use a CMMS to assign priorities, schedule work, and conduct failure analysis. The ideal organization will use the software to support decision making. It is the best-in-class organizations that use this system in this manner to make a difference and remain competitive. Clarification of termsAsset management is the process of maximizing asset value in a cost-effective manner. It is also about worker productivity, safety and process efficiency. Similarly, it is important to work on the right asset at the right time with the right strategy. Key indicators for success include reliability, availability and maintainability. The CMMS provides the technology for documenting work a

Having a reliability team is seen as a strategic role. The make-up of this group really depends upon the organization. Possible roles at the table include:HSE Manager: Safety training, accident investigations, LOTO, management of change Asset Manager: Analytical reports, recurring problems, KPIs/metrics Reliability Engineer: Engineering, issues with assets, RCAs Planner/Scheduler: Backlog trending weekly schedule, PM-job plans, outage planning CMMS Coordinator: Time in status, present reactive, work order feedbackBelow is a list of possible duties for this group:Review bad actor report and drill down on failure mode/cause. Review condition monitoring data trends and exception readings. Talk with craftsman about new CBM work order and suggested deadline. Track cost avoidance savings as linked to CBT discoveries. Evaluate negative asset condition trends. Initiate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when warranted, i.e., thresholds exceeded; assign lead; monitor status. Perform risk-based criticali

By popular demand, we’re bringing our Best-in-class work order series from the community to Fiix Forward 2021. Join @Alex.Topper and @jasonafara as they step through this 5-staged framework to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that you can unlock deeper data insights and improved performance. They’ll outline the goal for each stage, the value you can unlock by conquering it, and tips for how to get there. This is a great session to attend with your whole team, so you can asses what stage you’re currently in, and what you can all focus on next to continue to improve.  Get my virtual conference pass → + add this session to your conference scheduleTuesday, September 28, 3:30PM - 4:15PM ET

With over 30 years experience and having worked in various maintenance, operations, and process improvement roles around the globe, Jay Hampton (@JayHampton) joined Forterra as the Director of Maintenance just over a year ago to drive their maintenance programs forward.Jay will be sharing his crawl, walk, run approach at Fiix Forward 2021. Join us to get an inside look of how he is building a strong foundation for success moving a complex, multi-site environment from pen and paper to a preventative program.  PLUS, there are 20 more sessions offered at Fiix Forward 2021 to keep building your CMMS skills and unlock more Fiix value. So, no matter where you are on your maintenance journey, we hope you can save the date and join us in September. Get my virtual conference pass →  + add this session to your conference scheduleMonday, September 27, 10:20AM - 11:05AM ET

Is your mind brimming with creative ideas for improving your maintenance program, but some of those ideas seem a bit too far-fetched to your colleagues? Ryan Robinson (@ryanr), a Shop Manager working in the agriculture sector, was in the same position a little while ago when he came up with a big idea that would disrupt the old ways of doing maintenance.Watch to hear Ryan’s story on how he was able to get buy-in from management and his technicians to partner with Fiix and drive innovation never before seen at his company. They went from mountainous stacks of binders 📚 to pulling non-existent data from decades old farming equipment 🚜.  Ryan, along with Fiix solutions engineer James Binckly (@jbinckly), share their tips and tricks on: How to introduce new tech to your company, create a business plan, and get buy-in across the board, especially in more traditional sectors like farming How to collect and use data to add value for all key stakeholders across your company Determining w

Over the next five weeks we’re going to share our tips on how to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that they’re top-notch 👌. Starting with Stage 1 this week and we’ll add the next stages to this thread over the coming weeks. Subscribe ⭐️ below to get a notification when we post each new stage.  Stage 1 of 5 Goal: Minimize your work order backlog and start building the fundamental habits to capture useful and accurate data/metrics.Incentive: Establish a culture of defect identification and reduction (see something, say something) to inform preventative maintenance scheduling and create tighter connections between operations and maintenance teams. ✅ Preventative scheduled maintenance Setup your preventative scheduled maintenance with maintenance types and work order statuses that are updated correctly for your needs. You can update these in the lookup tables in CMMS settings.  ✅ Logging work requests through the Work Request Portal Creating w

We’re sharing our tips on how to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that they’re top-notch 👌 in 5 stages. If you missed the first three stages, you can check them out here ⤵    Stage 4 of 5 Goal: Get accurate insight on the material costs per asset to better understand which assets are costing the most to maintain and help make informed business decisions on whether to maintain or replace existing assets.Incentive: The ability to use the AI powered Fiix Foresight parts forecaster report to predict parts usage, leading to less capital sitting on shelves and fewer stock-outs. ✅ Parts usage  Parts labeled with proper naming/coding conventions and key fields such as price and minimum quantity are filled in. Parts are consumed against work orders to track material costs for specific assets or types of maintenance activities. Any misc costs could be added in addition to, or instead of parts.  ✅ Purchase requests Submitting purchase requests via

We’re sharing our tips on how to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that they’re top-notch 👌 in 5 stages. If you missed the first two stages, you can check them out here ⤵    Stage 3 of 5 Goal: Get accurate insight into how your team is spending their time to better understand labor costs (workload) & assess which assets are most time consuming.Incentive: Hours logged is an important metric to make business decisions such as replacing consistently failing assets or justifying additional headcount. It also helps highlight good habits by technicians and identify where others might need some help. ✅ Labor hours  Logged on all work orders. Best practice is to use the Fiix mobile app.  ✅ Track external labor Create 'inactive' users to represent external contractors and service providers, and appoint someone on your team to track their labor hours on work orders as well.   KPIs to assess your progress:  Report id 738: Scheduled vs. Unplanned M

Veteran Fiix user, Tom Dufton (@Tdufton), has worn many hats over the span of his 20-year career. While he started out as a licenced red seal 309 electrician, he now works as a maintenance and project manager at Perth County Ingredients, where he is fully honed in on introducing Fiix to help modernize eight L.H. Gray facilities across Canada.In this webinar, we break our discussion down into two buckets: Quality data in - How to make it easier for technicians to access and capture information, as well as incorporating automation to increase the accuracy of the data in your CMMS. Actionable data out - The KPIs Tom and his team are focused on to drive improvement and share their progress with upper management.A simple concept that requires dedication to implement in practice.Watch the recording to learn some practical tips to get everyone on your team rowing in the same direction in order to make big moves.  Questions or comments? Post in the thread below to connect directly with the pan

We’re sharing our tips on how to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that they’re top-notch 👌 in 5 stages. If you missed Stage 1, you can check it out here ⤵    Stage 2 of 5 Goal: Include relevant steps, instructions and visual aids to make completing work orders easier. Once work is completed ensuring relevant completion notes and follow up images post-repair are available for future reference.Incentive: Work orders are easy to reference for new hires, are more likely to pass audits, and are able to be analyzed by Fiix Foresight to generate your work order insights report to track trends & look for outliers. ✅ Tasks and task groups  Added to all scheduled maintenance. Added to reactive work orders where relevant.  ✅ Relevant documents and visual aids Relevant pictures or other files i.e. drawings, schematics are added to all scheduled maintenance.  ✅ Completion notes Added to all work orders. Images are added to closed work orders wher

We’re sharing our tips on how to progressively improve the quality and level of detail in your work orders so that they’re top-notch 👌 in 5 stages.  If you missed the first four stages, you can check them out here ⤵    Stage 5 of 5 Goal: A connected system between operations and maintenance to achieve less downtime and more production output.Incentive: Gain real insights into how breakdowns are affecting your production, and thus your bottom line. The opportunity to explore the Fiix Integration Hub to create a highly connected business with production/operations in sync with maintenance. ✅ Logging asset downtime through work orders  Set assets offline within work orders to directly link maintenance activities to machine availability and uptime.  ✅ Failure codes Using failure codes to track common failures, causes and solutions (Enterprise tier only).  ✅ Integrate your CMMS with PLCs and other data monitoring systems Through open API, monitor status and trigger events based on real-tim

Evolving your scheduling strategy to automatic condition-based triggers is a powerful way to become more efficient and stop wasting time and money on extra maintenance you don’t have to do.Watch our conversation with member Jason Stokes (@JasonStokes) Maintenance Supervisor at Boyd Corporation, where he’ll give us an inside look at how they’re currently using their Fiix CMMS along with Fiix app exchange partner, MachineMetrics, and their future plans for integrating the two systems to achieve condition-based maintenance.  In this webinar, you’ll learn:The different types of condition-based monitoring and a rundown on some of the common techniques used to monitor assets How switching from an Access database to a CMMS helped Boyd Corp become more efficient How MachineMetrics enables manufacturers to connect, collect & visualize asset data for identifying bottlenecks and areas most prone to downtime How to connect other maintenance and business tools and software to your CMMS using th

I recently participated in a Fiix leadership training session on diversity and inclusion. It was incredibly enlightening to learn how leadership is evolving and how to apply these new practices in my day-to-day team management.The session was led by our very own @delpeachy , Fiix’s Director of Talent and Diversity. Dean is also a Professor of Diversity in the Workplace at George Brown College and has spent 10+ years focusing on talent management and creating equity frameworks for organizations. We’re incredibly fortunate to have him on our team to guide Fiix’s leaders in unlocking the potential for all our employees.A single question popped into my mind after this experience — how can I share Dean’s knowledge across The Fiixers community? As it’s an important topic for all leaders to be aware of and I want to create access to these tools to inspire the change we can all benefit from, professionally and personally.So, over the course of the next few weeks, @delpeachy will be posting a s

Becoming an inclusive leader is a lot like planting a garden. Just as plants need to be watered, your team needs daily reminders and examples of what it means to be inclusive and diverse, and why it matters. With consistent care and attention, you’ll eventually harvest awesome results. All of this effort and pay-off starts by planting a seed. When we talk about inclusive leadership, that seed is a commitment. Nothing else is possible without a commitment to building inclusive behaviours within your team. In this article, I’ll explore how to make a commitment to inclusive leadership, how to turn that commitment into action, and how to stick to your plan.  What does a commitment to inclusive leadership look like?There are six key characteristics that inclusive leaders possess. You can check out a list and description of the traits back in post one of this series. Making a commitment is an essential first step to strengthening these characteristics.But what does making a commitment mean?

What the greatest leaders in history got wrongWho pops into your head when you think of a good leader? Maybe it’s a manager you had or a politician you admire. Or even a character from your favorite movie.Whoever it is, they lead with a specific style. And there are a lot of styles to choose from—transformational leadership, servant leadership, situational leadership. The list goes on.No matter the style, this person excelled at taking a group of people and maximizing their potential as a whole. This is probably why you consider them to be great. But it’s also where they likely could have improved.Leaders have traditionally seen the people they lead as one, big group in need of motivation. Inclusive leadership is the exception. Inclusive leaders find the best working style for individuals. Then they create a working environment that allows each personality to shine within the team. As the benefits of inclusive leadership are better understood, people managers and whole organizations ar

Can we all agree that "You need to improve your culture," is really unhelpful advice? What does that mean? How do you do that?@StuartFergusson joined Bryan Sapot on the SensrTrx podcast to answer these questions. Stuart and Bryan discuss what a healthy maintenance culture looks like, the metrics you can use to build it, and how to measure its success (with some IIoT in there for good measure).Teaser 👇 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here → Did you know SensrTrx is a vetted Fiix App Exchange partner? Learn more here →

We often receive messages letting us know that you wish you could attend the live webinar but just can’t at the specified time. We get it - different time zones and demanding schedules mean that sometimes you’ve got to catch it on-demand. What’s great about our community is that you can still connect with the panelists anytime to comment or ask questions as if you were in the live event! Watch on your own time and still have the opportunity to join the conversation, that’s a win-win.SynopsisFor Ice River Sustainable Solutions, a Canadian family-run bottled water company committed to sustainable manufacturing, linking sustainability to maintenance outcomes comes naturally. In this webinar, members Crystal Howe (@Chowe) Sustainability Manager and Joy Marshall-Haw (@JOY) Continuous Improvement Coordinator join Fiix Sustainability & Social Impact Manager @katie.allen for a panel discussion on how making sustainability part of your maintenance and reliability strategy is easier than you

Hello everyone! My name is Dean Delpeache and I’m the Director of Talent and Diversity at Fiix. Over the next four weeks, I’ll be posting all about inclusive leadership and then hosting a workshop on the topic. (Check out this post from @Justine Rae if you want to learn more about me and the background to this series). Drop any questions or your own thoughts about inclusive leadership in the comments and stay tuned for more posts!  What is inclusive leadership?Think about what motivates you at work. Maybe it's mastering your craft or making a difference. Maybe it’s the paycheque. Some of the people you work with might be motivated by the same general things. But never in quite the same way. That’s because everyone at your company is unique with diverse upbringings, goals, and beliefs. Understanding this, and using it to guide your decisions, is the foundation of inclusive leadership. Inclusive leadership all about finding out who someone is, what has shaped them, and how that affects t

To celebrate International Women’s Day I’m encouraging you all to go check out (and join) WIRAM. Director Maura Abad and the whole team at WIRAM are doing amazing things in the industry and having important conversations about topics that impact everyone in maintenance.We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.Raise your hand high with a​​​ 🙌 in the comments below to show you're in and that you commit to choose to challenge and call out inequality. 

Have you checked out the Fiix app exchange yet?The Fiix app exchange is a vetted network of IoT partners and out-of-the-box connectors that make it easy to integrate your CMMS with sensors, production systems, fleet, and critical enterprise systems. At Fiix, we don’t believe in only offering developer tools for integrations, leaving you to figure it out on your own which can be costly and time-consuming.Instead, we’re focused on offering an open API and a wide range of no-coding required turnkey solutions — a one-stop-shop offering endless easy ways to sync applications, data, and workflows. Our app exchange includes industrial equipment and control solutions, heavy equipment fleet management software, highway fleet software, building control management systems, and pre-built connectors to hundreds of enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, WMS, and more. Explore our vetted partner network  Don't see what you're looking for?We’re not kidding about being the most open CMMS platform available.