Resources
Maintenance guides, metrics and workflows
Plain answers to the questions maintenance teams ask: how to schedule services, how to measure reliability, and how to run the work from the first fault report to the closed job. Written for people who keep machines, buildings and plants running.
Guides
What is a work order?
A work order is a written instruction to do one maintenance job on one asset. What goes on it, the main types, the lifecycle, and how to write one a technician can follow.
9 min read GuidesWhat is preventive maintenance? The 2026 complete guide
Preventive maintenance explained with the research most guides skip: failure patterns, the P-F interval, maintenance-induced failures, PM compliance and real cost data.
20 min read GuidesWhat is a CMMS?
A CMMS keeps one record per asset and tracks every work order, service, fault and spare part against it. What it does, who needs one and how to choose.
5 min read GuidesHours, kilometres or calendar: setting preventive maintenance intervals
Set maintenance intervals on run hours, kilometres or the calendar, stop a late service moving the next one, and plan nested 250/500/1000 h services.
5 min readMetrics
Maintenance KPIs: 10 metrics worth tracking
The ten maintenance KPIs worth tracking, with the formula for each, the data it needs, what it tells you and the mistakes that make it lie.
9 min read MetricsHow to calculate MTBF, MTTR and availability
MTBF, MTTR and availability, with formulas and a worked example: what counts as a failure, which hours to use, and the mistakes that skew the numbers.
4 min readComparisons
Solmex vs MaintainX
Solmex and MaintainX compared on facts: what each lists, at what price, and what Solmex adds. Sources checked 13/10/2026.
9 min read ComparisonsSolmex vs UpKeep
Solmex and UpKeep compared on facts: what each lists, at what price, and what Solmex adds. Sources checked 13/10/2026.
9 min read ComparisonsSolmex vs Fiix
Solmex and Fiix compared on facts: what each lists, at what price, and what Solmex adds. Sources checked 13/10/2026.
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