Facilities CMMS setup for preventive maintenance

A CMMS can make preventive maintenance easier, but it can also become a place where tickets go to look organized while the building still gets missed. The first time I helped set one up for a small facilities crew, we loaded every asset we could find: rooftop units, exhaust fans, pumps, doors, lights, water heaters, fire extinguishers, even random equipment nobody had touched in years. The…