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Planned Maintenance & PPM
Building PPM schedules that actually get done, not just logged.
Seasonal maintenance planning for facilities teams
Heating failures in January and cooling failures in July aren't bad luck — they're the predictable result of maintenance that should have happened weeks earlier.
6 April 2026 · 4 min readWhy asset service history matters more than the PPM calendar
A due date tells you when something should happen next. Service history tells you whether it's actually worth doing again — or whether the asset is telling you something else.
23 March 2026 · 4 min readHow often should planned maintenance actually happen?
There's no single correct interval for a given asset type — condition, usage and consequence all pull the answer in different directions. Here's how to actually work it out.
9 March 2026 · 5 min readPlanning maintenance across a multi-building estate
A schedule that works for one building doesn't automatically scale to ten. Estate-wide planning has its own failure modes that a single-site plan never has to face.
23 February 2026 · 4 min readRating asset criticality: why it changes your maintenance schedule
Two assets of the same type can warrant completely different maintenance attention depending on what happens if each one fails. Criticality is the variable most schedules ignore.
9 February 2026 · 5 min readWhat should be in a facilities asset register
An asset register that's just a list of equipment names is missing most of what actually makes it useful. Here's what a working register needs to hold.
26 January 2026 · 5 min readPlanned vs reactive maintenance: getting the balance right
Reactive work will always eat into planned time — the question is whether it eats into it predictably or unpredictably. That distinction matters more than any target ratio.
12 January 2026 · 5 min readHow to build a PPM schedule that actually gets done
A calendar full of planned tasks nobody completes is worse than no schedule at all — it creates a false sense of coverage. Here's how to build one that survives a busy week.