CMMS Customer Testimonial

A Maxpanda Shares Their CMMS Experience

At Maxpanda, our mission is to disrupt the CMMS industry with a platform that’s faster, better and more affordable than your current process. We want Maxpanda to be an amazing value for your organization with helpful on-boarding.

We’ve shared customer feedback with you in the past and now we want to share why Kimberly, a Maxpanda client, recommends the Maxpanda CMMS to anyone who wants to streamline their maintenance management.

Her organization went from traditional pen and paper to fully digital and the results speak for themselves. But don’t listen to us, take it from Kimberly. Maxpanda will help you improve the way you create, manage and report on your incoming work orders and your preventative maintenance routines.

What is a maintenance technician? As employment in manufacturing has gradually eroded, skilled technical workers—varyingly called trade workers or specialized craft workers have received little attention among social scientists, but many of these occupations remain a viable pathway to the middle class for millions of Americans and play a critical role since maintenance techs maintain the nation’s economic productivity using skilled technicians processes. Thus, a more precise understanding of these occupations and their training requirements lead to better policy reforms that enhance individual well-being and national economic vitality. Using wages to gauge middle-skilled occupations can be misleading because workers in the middle of the wage distribution may be relatively unskilled but compensated well because of union contracts or other characteristics of the industries in which they commonly work. Likewise, some low-wage occupations may be relatively skilled but experiencing negative wage trends as a result of trade, immigration, or technological change. Using educational requirements also runs into difficulty because there is tremendous variation in the technical skills of people who have the same level of education.

Skilled technical workers are found in a diverse array of occupations. Indeed, of the 22 major occupational categories – only five have zero occupations that meet the criteria. Most skilled technical workers are in “blue collar” occupations: installation, maintenance, and repair; construction; production; protective services; and transportation and material moving. Yet, many are in traditionally professional occupational families. The second largest group—representing 3.3 million jobs—is health care practitioner and technical occupations, and the fifth largest group—representing 0.82 million workers—is computer and mathematical occupations. Architectural and engineering occupations comprise another 0.65 million.

Skilled technical occupations disproportionately employ workers with sub-bachelor’s level higher educational credentials. Almost one-quarter of skilled technical occupations report a postsecondary certificate as their highest level of education, compared with only 6% of all other workers. This makes a certificate the most common level of education besides a high school diploma for skilled technical workers. Another 15% of skilled technical workers have earned an associate’s degree, compared with 6% of all other workers. Relative to the rest of the US workforce, skilled technical workers are much more likely to have a postsecondary education beyond a high school diploma, but less likely to have earned a bachelor’s or higher degree.

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Total Productive Management

How a CMMS Supports TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)

TPM strategies were developed in Japan over 50 years ago with the purpose of continuous improvement of equipment effectiveness. Many operations have adopted this philosophy and now require a system to aid in managing it. That is where a CMMS can help. We’re going to go over the 8 pillars of TPM and how a CMMS can help.

Pillar 1: Autonomous Maintenance
Assigning the best resource to the task will allow your team to focus on areas that are best use of their skills.

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Top 10 Benefits of a CMMS

Top 10 Benefits of a CMMS like Maxpanda

We’ve written about what a CMMS is, including its functionality options such as helping to track and diagnose assets in your organization. Now it’s time to talk about how it benefits you, your team and your facility or organization. This is just a small slice of the pie full of advantages:

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CMMS Technology

Using CMMS Technology to Bridge Workforce Gaps

One of the most apparent outcomes of the pandemic is the change in the workforce. While some have become accustomed to taking advantage of income subsidy options and are now reluctant to return to work, many others have determined full-time onsite employment is not the best fit for their lifestyle. Either way, the result is a shortage of qualified workers.

Now layer in the fact that many of the most experienced workers are retiring with 50% of facilities personnel to retire in the next 10 years. The amount of historic knowledge in those who are exiting the workforce in conjunction with the drop in investing in trades has led to an increase in contract work coupled with a drop in option for specialty skills.

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Predictive Maintenance

Moving Towards Predictive Maintenance

Regardless of the industry, for all companies with intensive asset management needs, maintenance strategy is imperative to maintaining uptime and reliability. Measuring the maturity of your Asset Management strategy is most commonly addressed with the Asset Maintenance Maturity Model which has been around for some time. The levels are as follows:

Asset Maintenance Maturity Model

Stage 1 – Reactive Maintenance

This is the chaotic approach to maintenance where you wait for the worst to happen and jump to address it.

Stage 2 – Planned Maintenance

Maintenance schedules are established based on fixed timeframes.

Stage 3 – Preventative Maintenance

Using a formal process, maintenance schedules are defined and information is collected.

Stage 4 – Predictive Maintenance

Using Sensor Data to predict failures instead of waiting for them to occur or scheduling based on time intervals.

Stage 5 – Advanced Optimized Predictive Maintenance

Assets are monitored in real time using integrated sources of data.

Using Technology to Predict Maintenance

The reliance on technology has increased multiple times over with the impact of the pandemic. Costs of sensors is relatively low in comparison to an outage and can be utilized, reported on and analyzed. Particularly if you’re using software such as a CMMS. By using sensors, you can increase monitoring and decrease the overhead to do so while avoiding impact on current procedures. The asset health data will provide a proactive window for maintenance keeping everything running smoothly.

It’s hard to think about switching all at once so consider running traditional maintenance in parallel to Predictive Maintenance. This will allow you to decide how you want to use the Asset Health insight.

Next Steps

If you’re looking to move from a traditional maintenance system such as paper and pen or spreadsheets, the next steps should be implementing a CMMS system such as Maxpanda. Book a free demo to find out how it can work with your business.

What is a maintenance technician? As employment in manufacturing has gradually eroded, skilled technical workers—varyingly called trade workers or specialized craft workers have received little attention among social scientists, but many of these occupations remain a viable pathway to the middle class for millions of Americans and play a critical role since maintenance techs maintain the nation’s economic productivity using skilled technicians processes. Thus, a more precise understanding of these occupations and their training requirements lead to better policy reforms that enhance individual well-being and national economic vitality. Using wages to gauge middle-skilled occupations can be misleading because workers in the middle of the wage distribution may be relatively unskilled but compensated well because of union contracts or other characteristics of the industries in which they commonly work. Likewise, some low-wage occupations may be relatively skilled but experiencing negative wage trends as a result of trade, immigration, or technological change. Using educational requirements also runs into difficulty because there is tremendous variation in the technical skills of people who have the same level of education.

Skilled technical workers are found in a diverse array of occupations. Indeed, of the 22 major occupational categories – only five have zero occupations that meet the criteria. Most skilled technical workers are in “blue collar” occupations: installation, maintenance, and repair; construction; production; protective services; and transportation and material moving. Yet, many are in traditionally professional occupational families. The second largest group—representing 3.3 million jobs—is health care practitioner and technical occupations, and the fifth largest group—representing 0.82 million workers—is computer and mathematical occupations. Architectural and engineering occupations comprise another 0.65 million.

Skilled technical occupations disproportionately employ workers with sub-bachelor’s level higher educational credentials. Almost one-quarter of skilled technical occupations report a postsecondary certificate as their highest level of education, compared with only 6% of all other workers. This makes a certificate the most common level of education besides a high school diploma for skilled technical workers. Another 15% of skilled technical workers have earned an associate’s degree, compared with 6% of all other workers. Relative to the rest of the US workforce, skilled technical workers are much more likely to have a postsecondary education beyond a high school diploma, but less likely to have earned a bachelor’s or higher degree.

CMMS Implementation

Top 7 Steps to Implementing Your CMMS Right – The First Time

You’ve decided to take the plunge and streamline your operations with a CMMS – congratulations! Before you just install and instruct your team to start using it, now is the time to plan and plan diligently.

Implemented correctly, a CMMS can provide a single source of the asset management and health, reduce operational costs, increase customer satisfaction, meet regulations and become a center of the maintenance execution management.

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Maxpanda is touch-less, paper-less and pandemic proof

Is your maintenance team still working with paper request forms? Do they need to travel to a central office to get their daily assignments? It may be time for you to make the switch to Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software. It may be time for Maxpanda.

“Maxpanda CMMS maintenance management software is an affordable way to move your team away from paper forms and lists, and into touch-less, paper-less work order management system they can access from the convenience of their smartphone, tablet or computer,” said Steve Kyriakidis, Product and Support Manager, Maxpanda. 

Preventative maintenance needs have not stopped throughout the coronavirus pandemic, no matter which wave your city finds itself in. Making the switch from paper to a CMMS maintenance management software is one way you can help keep your team working safely, even when they can’t be working together. 

“Not only does CMMS maintenance management software make it easier to keep your team working, it means you can help reduce contact between team members and high-touch surfaces. The software lets you keep in constant communication with your team, contractors and vendors across multiple sites,” said Steve.

Other benefits of Maxpanda CMMS include:

  • No extra hardware to purchase – Maxpanda is web-based, which means it is ready to go when you are, and accessible anytime, anywhere.
  • Up-to-date access – What you see is what you get, and users always have the latest version of our program. There is never the need to install lengthy updates, new software or security patches. Our weekly code base updates handles it all for you. 
  • No unexpected fees – We will never surprise you with unexpected software support fees.
  • Security – Rest assured that your content is always protected, backed-up and supported thanks to our robust and comprehensive security infrastructure backed by AWS.
  • Cloud storage – Your data will be permanently stored on the Amazon Cloud where it will always be available when you need it.
  • 24/7 customer care – We are always available to help you with any issues…because problems do not always originate during office hours!

Your team may be working in high-traffic environments, so let Maxpanda help you keep them connected on the job while minimizing touch points throughout the entire process. 

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The 100% Benefits Of CMMS For Cost-Effective with the best building management software

Benefits Of building management software. Effective property management is a balancing act: you have to keep tenants happy and keep property owners happy, all while lowering the cost of maintenance as much as possible to maximize profits. At times, these can seem like dueling incentives – to keep people happy, you have to spend a lot of money, right?

Not necessarily – and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) can help. 

Efficiency means savings, and everything a CMMS can do works to make all of your processes more efficient. We’re going to go over the ways a CMMS can streamline and improve your property maintenance – and save you money.

Preventive Maintenance Comes First

Preventive maintenance using the proper building management software of high cost assets can save you a lot of money. We aren’t, of course, advocating for preventive maintenance on all things – you should probably wait until a light bulb fails in a common area, for example, before replacing it. 

That said, preventive maintenance on assets like HVAC units, roofs, plumbing systems, etc., can save you a lot of time and money. The costs for emergency repairs are inevitably higher, tenant and owner satisfaction drop when emergency repairs happen a lot, and repair or replacement almost invariably cost more than preventive maintenance.

Your CMMS / building management software should have preventive maintenance scheduling as one of its core functionalities. From there, work orders will be sent automatically (more on that in the next section). Better yet, you’ll be able to analyze when a particular item is due for scheduled maintenance (part replacements, etc.), and schedule preventive maintenance for the same time, saving on labor costs.

Spare Parts Management Saves Time

Here’s a scenario that may ring true to many of you: you send someone out to fix a light bulb in a common area. They arrive at the building only to find there are no light bulbs – and it’s the end of their shift, on a weekend. Now you might have to pay someone extra to go fix the bulb on the weekend, or you may have to deal with tenant/property owner dissatisfaction.

You’ll never experience a scenario like this again with a CMMS building management software. You’ll be able to track how many spare parts you have at a given location. This allows you to stock up when you’re running low – you can also transfer spare parts from one location to another in your CMMS building management software, so if you can ask someone who is working at two different locations in one day to transfer spare parts from one spot to another.

This functionality goes far beyond light bulbs, of course – you can track everything from screwdrivers to paint. Your entire maintenance team will have access to the CMMS building management software, so when a spare part is used, they’ll be able to remove it from the CMMS, keeping everything up to date.

Work Order Management Keeps Things Moving

The amount of time it can take to call one handyperson, learn they’re still busy on the job you’d given them prior, get back on the phone, call someone else, figure out how far they are along in their job…you get the idea. It’s inefficient.

A CMMS building management software will come with built-in work order management – you shoot off a work order, the person you’ve assigned it to receives a notice, and they can then notify you through the CMMS building management software when the work is done. No more phone tag!

These are just a few of the many ways in which property maintenance CMMS can make property management more time and cost efficient. Our CMMS building management software will also help you by running and saving a variety of reports on what work has been done, and it comes complete with a number of triggers you can implement which, when met, create a work order for preventive maintenance. 

Automating your property maintenance saves you time and money! Get the right building management software today.

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Property Management Maintenance Software: Reasons Why You Need It

Implementing a smooth and comprehensive property maintenance strategy is an important aspect as far as doing business is concerned. It has led to the birth of a platform that you should have to try to use for your maintenance and repair program to become better. A more efficient approach is vital when it comes to scheduling regular maintenance, receiving requests, and sorting out what needs to be done to address the problems. This is why you need property management maintenance software.

Keeping your property tenants happy and satisfied serves as the ultimate way for your business to prosper dramatically. Hence, you have to get a provider of property maintenance software. This is to provide real benefits to the clienteles who are depending on the way you serve them. There are a lot of property management maintenance software choices. One of the great options is created and provided by Maxpanda. This company aims to give satisfactory services to its clients. Their main purpose is to help businesses optimize their operations.

Why do you need property management maintenance software?

There are clear reasons why you need it. Below are some of the things you have to learn as to why this software is important for you.

It’s a powerful tool to help you have a more optimized maintenance operation.

Optimizing the process of fixing issues in relation to your business is quite necessary. That is why you have to get a trusted software tool serving this purpose. But make sure that the features provided by the provider are great enough to help you. Otherwise, the problems you really want to solve can remain as problems.

There are issues like the need to repair and/or renovate the apartment for rent. Attending to this need should be done right away. An immediate response should be effectuated to make the tenants happy. When they experience happiness, they would be able to appreciate your management system. And it can have a domino positive effect on the business you’re handling and managing. Hence, progress is easily achievable.

Tenants are always kept updated regarding maintenance and repair services.

It’s necessary to keep your tenants always on the loop. This is an essential aspect when doing a property-related business. But of course, it’s not always easy to keep them always updated. If you do it manually, the result would be unfavorable. Meaning, it’s not going to be very easy for you. Hence, you should find a way wherein the process would be more efficient, effective, and helpful. More particularly if your tenants have a long-term contract with you, assisting and settling their problems must be done as quickly as possible. This way, there can be an assurance that their satisfaction level would reach a definite dramatic height. It would be then more favorable to your business success.

The number of complaints regarding tenant service tend to reduce.

With property management maintenance software, you will be able to reduce the number of complaints associated with repairs and maintenance systems. The usual problems to arise are related to fixtures, lights, HVAC, pool sanitation and other related services, and so on. All of these must be fixed as immediately as possible. It is probable to solve all these problems when you have an optimized way. A software can serve as the most effective solution. Thereby, it is best advised to have a property maintenance software for your business to hit the desired success level.

Conclusion

Real estate rental businesses are dramatically increasing despite the presence of Covid these days. It is so because of the fact that people still need a house or an apartment to live. It is necessary to provide shelter to every family. Hence, the use of management and repair software is important for every owner of a house, or apartment, or condo for rent. The purpose of which is to expedite the action whenever necessary. Every time there is a problem, you have to make sure that you can settle it immediately. The rate of providing a resolution process must be high. Otherwise, your business growth will be compromised.