Ineffective Work Orders and Wasted Wrench Time

Work orders are an effective way of managing and measuring how time is spent in a plant. They play a role in prioritizing maintenance tasks, scheduling when they should happen, and estimating and documenting how long a task should take. If you work in the maintenance...

Some Common Causes of Inaccurate Work Order Data

Work orders keep different maintenance and reliability professionals on task in different ways. They hold maintenance workers accountable for tracking the progress of their work and documenting important details of the repairs carried out on important assets; they...

What’s Behind a Work Order?

For an asset-intensive business that deals with heavy equipment and machinery, routine maintenance checks and corrective repairs are a common part of an asset’s life cycle. However, these maintenance checks don’t simply happen on a whim. Requests for work can be...