Your Rounds Routine Should Have Training Built In
How nice would it be to hire an employee who could take over your rounds routine within days of coming aboard? With the right logbook it’s not only possible, but it’s easy and it could reduce the burden of training for both you and your new employee. Log sheets are…
Predictive Maintenance Is Nothing New
You and your team may be doing predictive maintenance – you just don’t know it yet. You may have heard the term “Predictive Maintenance” or “PdM” popping up in conversations about facility maintenance lately. It’s often mentioned discussions about the possibilities of internet of things (IoT) devices being used to…
Paperwork, How Good FM Jobs Go Bad
You have to love those days when doing your job feels great! Maybe you got a commitment from that vendor that’s been dodging you. Or you solved the mystery of the overloaded circuit in the pump room. Those are the days when you are on top of your responsibilities and…
Thank You, Operations and Maintenance Pros
This holiday season let’s all take a second to recognize the dedicated facilities operations and maintenance professionals who make the amazing built environment we live in a reality. They work tirelessly to keep the buildings and facilities we depend on for so many things safe and functional. Their behind-the-scenes work is what…
Facilities Maintenance Tips For Falling Temps
A few weeks ago, I heard someone on a radio program tell the audience that “cold late-October days are nature telling us winter is coming.” Instead of trying to wrap your head around the absurdity of that statement, let’s just say that winter will be here soon. With that in mind, here are…
FM Teams That Have “Always Done It That Way” Should Think Again
Near the top floor of a downtown NYC building, there is a remarkable facilities engineering department. In a hallway near the team office space, you’ll find a sign with this quote: “The most dangerous phrase in the engineering language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way’” The sign is a…
How To Reduce Stress For The Facilities Pro
As a facilities manager, the boundary between your work and private life can get pretty thin. Issues happen on their own schedule, not yours, and when they come up, a lot of people look to you. We were recently at a retirement party for a resident manager when he got…
Paper isn’t just a mess… it’s a liability
It’s no secret that technology is making building operations more efficient than ever. But checking boxes, filling in blank fields, and circling your selection on paper log sheets is still standard practice when performing building inspections and rounds. And it works great…right? Paper log sheets are tangible and low tech….
The FM product making happier tenants and owners: Reliability
Reliability is the most important deliverable for your facilities maintenance team. It’s your product: the resulting state of your building after everyone has done their jobs right. Once you start thinking about reliability as your service or product, you’ll unlock ways to improve it, making you more valuable to your…
Implementation Stress Is No Issue With New FM Tech
FM professionals tell us all the time that they “don’t want to deal with implementing software for some new system.” Having been through FM software implementation on the client side…I don’t blame them. It’s downright traumatic. I’ve been on facilities teams dealing with this kind of ordeal on more than…
