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This week, we're shining the spotlight on Peter, our Customer Success Manager - Mid Market here at Fiix! To him, family will always be the most important thing in life, chicken wings will always be his go-to meal and he’d love to explore the culture and food in South America. ❤️Read on to get to know Peter.  ❓What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment?✨ There were 2 major draws to Fiix! The first was that Fiix is a mission-critical software bringing innovation to an industry that still has lots of space to grow! The second is Kurt Wissent (Fiix’s Regional Business Lead in the EMEA Region) and how passionately he spoke about Fiix. When Kurt found out that I was in the market, he reached out to introduce me to Fiix and before I stepped into the virtual "doors" of Fiix I reached out to a friend and colleague who joined Fiix a month later! One thing that Fiix does extremely well is grow the company  through its network of Fiixers.❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time or

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Elizabeth Voss, Content Marketing Manager extraordinaire. She’s a storyteller whose growing and evolving career is rooted in creativity. She could not go a day without her kitten Mu, would love to visit Puglia, Italy, and says potatoes in any form are her favorite food. Keep reading on to learn more about her! ❓ What is something you are passionate about?✨ I am passionate about people. I love getting to know how different people approach problems, how they come to a solution and just understanding their thought processes. ❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time ✨ I make jewelry. The thing about making jewelry is that it doesn’t need to be perfect there is no right way to make a necklace or earnings. It helps me unlock a creative part of my brain that is free from rules or instructions, and the best part is I get to wear my creations afterward. ❓ What was your “I need to work at Fiix” moment?✨ I knew I needed to work at Fiix when

We are picking back up our Fiixer Friday series, this week, we're shining the spotlight on Christopher Martin Choy, Implementation Consultant and avid traveler. ✈️❓ What is something about you that might surprise people?✨ I love to forage for wild edibles in the summers here in Ontario! Better than getting them at my local grocery store. 🫐❓ What has been the highlight of your time at Fiix?✨ Walking into the office and meeting some of my teammates was a huge win. We were able to connect in-person after a long stretch of only Zoom meetings. The abundance of awesome snacks and the coffee machine didn’t hurt either. 🏢❓ What do you love about your role/the work that you do?✨ Managing all phases of the project lifecycle is a challenge that keeps the role fun and exciting. The different industries and client personalities that we interface with can make things difficult at times, but that’s all part of the game. 🔧❓ What motivates you?✨ Truth and knowledge!❓ Aside from necessities, what one

We officially opened our community doors in January 2021 and to celebrate our 1-year anniversary we are sending a pair of Fiix pint glasses to the first 25 members who share their favorite moments of being part of The Fiixers!   During our first year, we’ve truly enjoyed connecting with many of you as we collectively built a space where we can collaborate, share and learn from each other. Here are a few of our favorite things:  👋 Seeing new members join each week and learning about each of you through your profiles and posts in our welcome thread. ⭐️ Watching you share your Fiix knowledge with each other! You’ve posted over 200 questions in our Q&A forum and are answering each other’s questions over 90% of the time…a stat that puts The Fiixers in world-class community status! 📸 Spotlighting 8 members in our webinar series. A heartfelt thank you to @jmorgan1 @Chowe @JOY @JasonStokes @Tdufton @ryanr @JayHampton @daaroe for sharing your Fiix experiences (…and we are pumped to le

Keeping things running is a non-stop job. And it’s easy to see all the breakdowns instead of all your progress. That’s why as the year comes to a close a few of our Fiixers have some words of encouragement. We hope our pep talk reminds you to take a step back and reflect on all you’ve accomplished with your maintenance program this year before leaning in to keep planning your big ideas for 2022.  To help you with those big ideas, 🎁 unwrap our package of handy templates 🎁 and make 2022 a great year for your maintenance teamThe package includes:A template for establishing goals, KPIs, and metrics for your maintenance team. A checklist of activities to help you purchase, organize, and track parts and supplies so you can cut costs and boost efficiency. A template to design a maintenance budget from scratch and track all your costs. A presentation template to build a case for your next big maintenance project so you can secure budget and buy-in. A framework to prioritize deferred maintena

And see @Justine Rae and I wear some silly hats to get into the festive spirit    Read our holiday message instead @Justine Rae: Hello everyone. As 2021 winds down, Christa and myself wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for helping make our first year in The Fiixers community such a success. We've accomplished a lot together in the past 12 months and really appreciate each and every one of you who logged on and got involved.@Christa Brown: Already our community is over 1000 strong with new members joining each week. It's been so  inspiring to see how you're showing up for one another, sharing your experiences and how you do things and Fiix. Over 90% of the time, member questions are being answered directly by other members! Which means we're learning too. Because we all know that there's more than one way to do things in Fiix. So sharing our collective knowledge and learnings with each other is really valuable. It's one of the main reasons that we launched The Fiixers. We also

The checkered flag has waved and all the champagne has dried up from this year’s conference. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the live sessions to ensure Fiix Forward 2021 was a podium finish! Please take a few minutes to share your conference feedback (good, bad, and indifferent) to help us improve our performance for future events. You can now access all 16 hours of virtual learning, across 20 educational sessions with 25 expert speakers, by simply visiting this page →  

Interested in learning more about the exciting possibilities related to Fiix joining the Rockwell Automation family this year? Come meet Fiix CEO, James Novak @jamesnovak, and Tessa Myers, VP & GM Production & Operations Management Solutions at Rockwell Automation, to hear their vision for the connected enterprise production system, and how asset management is a strategic piece of the industrial digital transformation puzzle. This keynote session kicks off day two at Fiix Forward 2021, our annual user conference. Fiix & Rockwell Automation: At the intersection of IT and OTTuesday, September 28, 10:00AM - 10:40AM ETREGISTER for this session and more at Fiix Forward 2021 →  Then, stick around as @Divya Venkataraman and @StuartFergusson dive deeper into our approach to product integration as we build our plans to unlock Rockwell Automation and Fiix value. Learn how Fiix can become an end-point to action data across your connected systems. The path to Fiix & Rockwell Automa

We understand that your world is fast-paced and you can easily get called away from your computer at a moment's notice. So, if you’re unable to attend any of our live webinars, you can always catch up on what you missed with our on-demand versions.  Quarterly Fiix Roadmap Fiix continuously updates and enhances features and functionality based on customer feedback to help you get the most out of your CMMS. Our Quarterly Fiix Roadmap webinars will let you know what’s coming next so you can plan ahead for implementing these new capabilities. Tools of the Trade Our Tools of the Trade webinars will uncover some handy tips & tricks that you can apply right away to get ‘er done with less effort. These webinars provide practical guidance on expanding your Fiix expertise so you can keep navigating your CMMS like a pro. In Conversation Our In Conversation webinars will spotlight a member from The Fiixers community and chat with them about how they are making an impact to celebrate, educate,

We know your calendars fill up quickly so we’re excited to announce that Fiix Forward 2021, our annual user conference, will be taking place Monday September 27 & Tuesday September 28, 2021. We’re going virtual once again, featuring 20 educational sessions and 25 expert speakers over two action-packed days of learning, sharing ideas, and networking with hundreds of other maintenance professionals. All the sessions are available at no cost to ensure you keep building your skills and unlocking more CMMS value. This year it’s all about how maintenance drives performance...Watch the video below for more details ⤵  On your mark, get set, go!REGISTER NOWP.S. Please share with your teammates so they can register too 😉

 This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Joe McVay, Implementation Consultant here at Fiix 🛠 He is an early bird that loves coffee, and has a sweet spot for smoked brisket, dogs, fall and football!❓What was your "I need to work at Fiix" moment? ✨During the interview process it was overwhelmingly clear that Fiix was very employee and community focused.  If a company is willing to invest that much in their employees then I knew I'd have all the motivation needed to go the extra mile for our customers 👏.  ❓What do you love most about your role/ the work that you do?✨There are times during a training where you have some pushback initially from a technician and then you'll see them start to realize how much easier we could make their job with our software.  I have seen complete 180s on starting to use a CMMS in the span of a two hour training and that is pretty gratifying 🛠.❓What motivates or drives you?✨My family 💕.❓Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time or any hobbies

In The Fiixers we’re always striving to find new ways to unlock more value for everyone who uses Fiix. So, building off the collaborative success of our CMMS Q&A forum, today we’re launching a new group, Fiix It.  This is a dedicated group for technicians, electricians, millwrights...essentially anyone on your team who fixes equipment. The forum will focus on asking questions, posting photos, seeking advice, and sharing expertise specific to maintaining and repairing assets, machinery, and equipment.  We have an incredible depth of expertise across our global user base and want to test if this new group enables you or your team to share all the “fixing” knowledge you’ve built up during your careers.For quick context, we reco posting pictures to get help with problem-solving issues that surface daily, or something cool that others could benefit from. If you’re repairing and maintaining equipment, assets, and machinery we invite you to click here to join AND also ask that you please

Happy Earth Day Fiixers! 🌍While Earth Day is everyday, we take this opportunity to acknowledge all the great work we’ve done and reflect on what is still left to do.For the past five years we have operated as a net zero company by offsetting our scope 1, 2, 3 emissions and constantly strive to mitigate our impact. ☁️We are also on a mission to measure the impact good maintenance can have on sustainable outcomes — read more about that in the Sustainability Group.Maintenance is the best way to keep materials in use. Did you know a preventive maintenance program can result in 20% savings in raw material usage?  Take today as an opportunity to assess how your work might be contributing to a more sustainable world… 😊

Allie Schwertner, industry sales engineer and leader for sustainability and energy at Rockwell Automation, discusses how the company fits into the microgrid industry as it shoots for carbon neutrality across its manufacturing facilities by 2030.  Are you one of the many businesses in the industrial space that are seeing the growing costs associated with power outages and are putting a bigger focus on energy resiliency? Tell us about it in the comments below 👇 Read the full article by Microgrid Knowledge here → About Microgrid Knowledge“Microgrid Knowledge leads the way providing news on microgrids and distributed energy resources. Our audience includes energy businesses, organizations and policymakers, along with customers who use microgrids and distributed energy — or are considering doing so. Visit our site to read original content about markets, policies, trends and technologies in this fast-growing energy arena.” After you watch Allie’s interview, why not jump over here and join o

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Neeraja Vinoba, Senior Software Developer who is a yogi at heart.❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have!✨ I live my life on yoga and a day without my practice is a day wasted for me 🧘‍♀️. I also enjoy reading 📚, cooking 🥘 and making itineraries to the places that I wish to travel to some day ✈️.❓ What motivates or drives you?✨ Practice. The knowledge that no matter how bad I am at something today, if I put my mind to it and keep at it I will definitely be good at it some day.❓ Are you an early bird or a night owl? Why?✨ Definitely an early bird 🐦 mainly because I like to finish my yoga practice before I start my day.❓ What is something interesting no one knows about you? ✨ I solo backpacked across the islands of Oahu and The Big Island of Hawaii a couple of years ago 🎒. Had some pretty good adventures on that trip 🌎.❓ What's your favourite thing to do on the weekends?✨ My husband and I try to sta

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Patricia Calderon, Technical Support Specialist.❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ The work culture, Corporate Social responsibility policy, transparency, and the opportunity to use my customer skills, maintenance, and instrumentation background, all in one place 🌱 🛠.❓ What has been the highlight or your most proud moment since starting at Fiix?✨ How efficient and easy was the transition to working remotely in response to the pandemic was. It is easy when the people around you are so professional, prepared, empathetic and organized. I am so proud to be part of this team. I love being a Fiixer!❓ What motivates or drives you?✨ My family and the opportunity to grow personally and professionally 🌱.❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time/ any hobbies that you have!✨ I love going to the movies, experimenting in the kitchen and going to the gym 📽💪.❓ What is something interesting no one knows about you?✨ I have lived in 4 diff

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Mohammad Esmalifalak, Machine Learning Engineer that helped to bring Fiix Foresight to life!❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ I was an electrical engineer for a long time but always had a passion for software engineering. After I realized that Fiix is a place that I can use my mathematical skills for creating cool software, I decided to join Fiix. I am proud of our first AI product, Fiix Foresight, that was recently released - it helps our customers manage their inventories much better.❓What motivates or drives you?✨ I'm motivated by looking at data. Give me a spreadsheet and questions, and I would be busy for hours to understand the driving forces behind those numbers 📈
.❓How do you think introducing AI into our product will help transform the maintenance industry?✨ Currently our software is leaning towards humans for creating work orders. This for example leads to over or under maintaining assets because of human error. AI will minimi

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Mary Sunitha Joseph, Lead Developer and owner of over 40 succulents 🌵.❓ What development team are you a part of?✨ Team Luna. I’ve been with Fiix for 2 years now and I’ve loved every moment of it!❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ When I applied to Fiix I researched the company and found their blogs and a video made by the then 30 or so Fiixers. It was a warm and honest video that gave me a glimpse of what life at Fiix would be like! I felt at home instantly.❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time or something interesting no one knows about you.✨ I bake banana muffins like a crazy person 👩‍🍳.❓ What is one thing you miss now that you are not working in the office? ✨ The people, the warmth of the office environment! A work day at Fiix is a thing to look forward to! 👩‍💻❓ What are you doing for your mental health since the pandemic started?✨ It has been tough, but hobbies, having a schedule, working out and being in touch w

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Morteza Nejad, Machine Learning Engineer that helped bring Fiix Foresight to life!❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix?✨ Fiix’s atmosphere and culture. Motivational and inspiring managers.❓ What motivates or drives you? ✨ The type and nature of projects that I’m working on.❓ What fascinates you most about AI?✨ In some cases, our team might be the first in the world that applies today’s science into a product 🧬.❓ Tell us something fun that you do in your spare time! ✨ I build RC planes and drones!❓ If Fiix organized a talent show, what do you think you would do?✨ I would show my handmade AI-enabled drone (which I plan to build) 🛠.❓ What's your favourite thing to do on the weekends?✨ Hiking in the woods, one-night car camping, & reading 📚🌳.❓ What is one thing you miss now that you are not working in the office?✨ Re-gaining energy in afternoons by a chat with colleagues on our coffee breaks ☕️.

This week, we're shining the spotlight on Isabel, Account Executive, who grew up in the US but has now acquired the Canadian “I’m sorry”.❓ What made you decide to work at Fiix? What has been the highlight or your most proud moment since starting at Fiix? ✨ I decided to work at Fiix because it aligned with my values personally and professionally. I love how much opportunity there is in the market for Fiix and the value this brings to our customers. The company being a B-corp was also amazing for me.❓ What motivates or drives you?✨ 
I am driven by the new world for women in the workplace. It wasn't too long ago when women were defined by their role at home or for the family. It limited the career options and pay we could get. We have a new generation of people now coming into the workplace and I believe the actions of everyone help create a world where gender/race doesn't matter. No one can do it alone so I gear my actions and career to help create that equality.❓ Tell us something fun t