Blog of maintenance management and CMMS software

Taking Plant Safety to The Next Level With a Facility Maintenance Management

The best way to establish an effective health and safety program is to standardize all processes and procedures in your next-gen CMMS.

Industrial Maintenance of Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines

Predictive and prescriptive maintenance routines might be the right answer to the sector’s challenges

Is Predictive Maintenance Already Out-of-date?

Prescriptive maintenance is the expected final development of predictive maintenance routines and for now is considered for the last milestone in the evolution of maintenance.

The History of Maintenance in Industry

A proper maintenance management is a major performance factor and a source for quick gains within the company: it can only have positive consequences on your company and the product you manufacture.

Women in Industrial Maintenance

According to the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, only 30% of the industrial sector’s positions are held by women. Nonetheless, during the past few years, they progressively imposed themselves in certain specific areas, including industrial maintenance.

My maintenance career #3: Marc-Antoine Talva

Marc-Antoine Talva, CEO de Mobility Work, revient sur sa formation d’ingénieur méthodes maintenance à Centrale Nantes, et sur l’apprentissage et ses opportunités en termes d’insertion dans l’industrie.

UX SERIES 12: Mobility Work at Danone

Franck Maillot, engineering and maintenance manager at Danone Waters, explains to us why the application meets the requirements of the group and why large companies should trust startups.

Next-gen CMMS for A Proper Facility Management

Why is a Next-gen CMMS Important for A Proper Facility Management?

Facility management is a milestone in the successful functioning of any organization. Thus it is important to know its role and that its proper establishment has a great impact on business.

UX Series 11: Mobility Work at Carambar & Co

Jean-François Boudes, a maintenance manager at Carambar & Co., agreed to talk about key steps, challenges and benefits associated with the implementation of Mobility Work.

Industrial Maintenance Best Practices

The main goal of industrial maintenance is to keep all plant’s assets in good condition and this at the lowest possible cost. The production quality of an organization depends on the availability and reliability of the equipment.

UX Series 10: Mobility Work at Lipotec

Joaquín Guimerá is a maintenance and engineering manager at Lipotec. He agreed to share with us his experience of his remote deployment of Mobility Work.

Choosing The Right CMMS For A Successful Tool Management

A successful tool management is a major issue for every plant. Choosing a next-gen CMMS enhances the entire production line.

Testimony: How I connected my ERP to Mobility Work CMMS

More and more simple, affordable and user-friendly business applications in SaaS mode are emerging, which will allow you to easily connect your ERP to other more flexible, customer-oriented tools.

Fundamental Electrical Formulas for Safer Industrial Maintenance Routines

As a vital part of a successful industrial maintenance program, electrical equipment maintenance is of crucial importance for the plant’s safety.

Why Your Roofing Company Needs a CMMS?

Installation, maintenance, and repair of roof require a lot of planning and work. The roof is expected to perform more than its basic function to better serve customers, the environment, and the community.

Job Fact Sheet n°1 : My Job as a Maintenance Engineering Technician

To start our new series dedicated to maintenance careers, learn about the maintenance engineering technician, the technical asset of the maintenance service.

A Smart CMMS for Improved Agriculture and Farming Maintenance

A reliable CMMS plays a crucial role in the agricultural sector ensuring that all machines are working properly.

How To Better Manage Service Providers?

One thing is clear: many companies still are afraid to work with subcontractors for many reasons. Why are they often so reluctant?

Case Study: How To Improve Manufacturing Processes with Maintenance 4.0

With the help of industry 4.0 solutions, including Mobility Work, Spartacus3D created LETo, a metal additive manufactured robotic clamp presenting technical characteristics which were studied and optimized for the forging environment.

Help, I Bought The Wrong CMMS!

Marc-Antoine Talva, Mobility Work's CEO, tells us more about his experience in the industrial maintenance world and explains how the idea to create Mobility Work came out.

Best Management Tools to Master Industrial Maintenance

Today, new management tools are created almost everyday: we made a little selection in order to help you manage our equipment industrial maintenance.

UX SERIES 9: Mobility Work at Setforge L'Horme

Frédéric Carrot is a maintenance manager at the Setforge’s plant in L'Horme. As an early user of Mobility Work, the next-gen maintenance management platform, he agreed to look back over the product's evolution over the years.

An Overview of My Previous CMMS Software

Classical CMMS-software don't entirely meet companies' needs anymore. To achieve a successful equipment maintenance, they need to opt for brand new models!

The Oil and Gas Industry is Reaping the Benefits of Predictive Maintenance

The latest digital trends along with predictive maintenance in industrial equipment maintenance allow manufacturers to streamline maintenance in the oil and gas industry.

My Maintenance Career #2: Frédéric Lefresne

Frédéric Lefresne, engineer, tells us more about his educational background. He also explains why he thinks that it is crucial to give the perception of industrial maintenance a new lease of life.

How to Prevent Bottlenecks in Industrial Maintenance?

Knowing how critical every piece of equipment is at your plant will help you identify potential bottleneck machines. These are the highly critical assets on which the entire production depends.

Towards Industrial Maintenance’s Uberization?

Today, CMMS tools have become essential, yet the industrial maintenance world is hardly changing and needs to modernize. Do we have to think the whole field over?

CMMS: From Industrial Maintenance Management To Interconnected Departments

Mobility Work gives the possibility to its customers to innovate and to put information at the heart of their company.

Industrial Maintenance Contracts: Definition And Tips

An industrial maintenance contract is an agreement between several parties governing the professional relationships between a customer and a service provider.

GMAO pour réussir vos audits et certifications

How to Use Your CMMS to Succeed in Audits and Certification Acquisition

In the search of the best tools to gather, summarize, analyze and deliver important data, companies are starting to integrate more and more their CMMS in their audits.

My Maintenance Career #1: Anthony Blanchard

In this first episode, Anthony Blanchard, maintenance manager at FMGC shares his experience with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

UX SERIES 8 : Mobility Work at Saint Gobain Sekurit

Dominique Domas is an International Reliability Manager in Saint Gobain Sekurit International. He agreed to tell us about the first stages of the deployment of Mobility Work within the group, and to talk about his objectives in order to standardize good maintenance practices.

Community and discussion groups in the industrial maintenance field

Based on this observation, we decided to create Mobility Work, the first maintenance social network, and offer more than a simple CMMS software.

CMMS: Towards An Evolution Of The Pareto Analysis

The main goal of the Pareto distribution is to classify maintenance interventions according to their frequency, then to rank them according to their priority. However, industry 4.0 solutions brought us to question the relevancy of Pareto diagrams.

Implementing and setting up Mobility Work CMMS

Mobility Work is a cloud-based SaaS app. Its mplemention does not require any IT intervention, neither does it require any particular infrastructure.

UX SERIES 7: Mobility Work at Sarplast

Hervé Vourron is a production manager at Sarplast. He witnessed the early development of the app and is now a convinced client and agreed to share his experience regarding the evolution of the product.

CMMS: Payback, ROI and Benefits

This is the actual question asked by every decision-maker in every company before purchasing and implementing a CMMS software: what is the cost, and what will be the advantages for the company?

Mobility Work CMMS for Machine and Consumable Manufacturers

How Does the 1st Maintenance Social Network and CMMS Benefit Suppliers?

You can now easily join the platform as a machine and consumable manufacturer or as a service provider.

Is The Term “CMMS” Still Topical?

Are the profound transformations triggered by the emergence of industry 4.0 calling into question the use of the term “CMMS”?

Next-Gen CMMS Is Coming to Food and Beverage Manufacturing

A computerized maintenance management system, deployed at a food processing plant should adhere to strict standards.

5 critères pour choisir votre logiciel de GMAO

5 Keys to Choose Your CMMS Software

Mobility Work’s philosophy, which is very different from other CMMS editors, is to accompany you throughout your project and transition to maintenance 4.0.

UX SERIES 6: Mobility Work at Bericap

Hubert Marion is a maintenance manager at Bericap France. Convinced to join the next gen maintenance management platform by one of his colleagues, he kindly agreed to talk about his personal experience with Mobility Work.

5 Keys to Improve Your Equipment Management in Your CMMS

We are used to very simple tools in our daily lives, so why would the creation of a piece of equipment be more complicated than publishing an add on an e-commerce website?

4 main Benefits of Mobile CMMS

Mobility, which has become a topic of concern for an increasing number of companies, is part of a digitalization approach of the plant: industry 4.0.

Industry 4.0 CMMS: Future Maintenance Is Happening Now

The industry 4.0 CMMS can be easily integrated in the context of the IoT, cloud and cognitive computing to become an indispensable part of the smart factory.

How to improve the safety of your maintenance process using your CMMS?

The maintenance sector has undergone profound changes in the past few years, and is now considered as a cornerstone of the industrial activity and productivity.

Maintenance and Equipment Life Cycle

The CMMS aims at being at the heart of the information of your plant, and has to allow you to gather all the information linked to the equipment life cycle in a single software.

Predictive Maintenance Fundamentals

The core idea of predictive maintenance is to predict when equipment failure might occur based on condition-monitoring data.

6 Elements of a Successful Preventive Maintenance Program

The implementation of the process guarantees the plant’s reliable and efficient performance by ensuring that equipment do not break down when you need it most.

UX Series 5: Mobility Work at FMGC

Being an early adopter of the next gen maintenance management platform Mobility Work, Anthony Leparoux kindly agreed to talk about our solution.

How to Choose the Right CMMS for Your Organization?

If you are still executing your maintenance tasks using a paper or Excel-based system then we recommend you to take a look at Mobility Work tutorials and consider the following support materials:

Reliable Railway Maintenance

Mobility Work streamlines the maintenance of all relevant railway equipment. The Next Gen Maintenance Management Platform eases the communication between all involved facilities and improves the entire maintenance cycle.

Geolocation and CMMS: Manage Asset Tracking

Our Next Gen CMMS offers customers geolocation of their equipment and spare parts. It streamlines, centralizes and manages asset tracking to optimize maintenance performance.

Preventive Replacement: a Main Preventive Maintenance Strategy

Preventive maintenance objective is to repair or replace of a piece of equipment before its expected failure point defined by the manufacturer or by data analysis.

Mobile CMMS for Fast and Easy Document Management

The mobile app of Mobility Work streamlines document management and helps users to find all requested information immediately by scanning the RFID.

IoT and CMMS: The New Competitive Advantage

Mobility Work flexible CMMS enormously supports and eases the integration of IoT at a facility. Sensor-collected data can rapidly be integrated and analyzed.

UX Series 4 : Simplify your new construction team's job

Mobility Work allows New contruction teams to assign companies per project, control their maintenance planning and above all calculate the amount of needed intervention hours.

How to easily connect Mobility Work CMMS with your ERP

CMMS and ERP: Most professionals know that integrating them in one system results in enormous benefits. But how exactly to successfully connect your new CMMS to your running ERP?

CMMS user data entry made easy: Mobility Work requires only up to 7 days

Migrating the right data in the right way is of critical importance for the proper functioning of a CMMS. But what data should you migrate and how much will it cost?

Predictive maintenance & CMMS : Get the best out of it

Combining predictive maintenance and CMMS in one seamless system helps you anticipate when your equipment would start breaking down and boost the effectiveness of your maintenance.

Predictive Maintenance VS Preventive Maintenance: Which strategy for your company?

Choosing the right equipment maintenance approach depends a lot on your budget and the size of your business.

3 steps for improved spare parts management

Identifying the criticality of assets, implementing a reliable CMMS and applying some preventive maintenance techniques are the three basic steps that you can undertake to improve your spare parts management process.

Find your missing spare parts quickly and easily

Fast and easy access to millions of spare parts available online on official catalogues, Amazon, eBay through your CMMS Mobility Work. We will soon launch an online purchase option.

Equipment maintenance vocabulary : A search for clarity

Every experienced maintenance professional has an opinion regarding the meaning of terms and definitions. The maintenance world is very far from having a universal agreement.

UX Series 3 : A SPIE professional evaluates Mobility Work

Michel Huet, SPIE Site Manager: Mobility Work is the most timesaving CMMS I have ever used. SPIE is internationally recognized for its high standards and extensive knowledge.

Industrial maintenance : Mobility Work CMMS opens to SMBs

Startups have been booming for the past few years, which increasingly caught the attention of SMBs and international groups from different sectors. There are two goals at stake here.

Easy spare parts management with Mobility Work CMMS

Integrating your spare parts inventory into Mobility Work CMMS will help you easier carry out the Japanese-based “5S” methodology for lean manufacturing.

UX Series 2: Setforge Near Net Has Adopted Mobility Work

Aurélien Deutsch, Maintenance Manager at Setforge Near Net: “This is the easiest and most efficient CMMS I have ever used”. SNNis a subsidiary of Farinia Group.

UX Series 1 : Mobility Work at Setforge BDI

David Deschamps, Maintenance Manager at Setforge BDI: “Mobility Work Enables the Most Efficient Data Management”. Setforge BDI is a subsidiary of Farinia Group.

Maintenance prédictive : coûteuse mais efficace

Predictive Maintenance: Expensive, but Worth It

Compared to preventive maintenance which is planned, predictive maintenance predicts a potential failure before it occurs by monitoring the machine during normal operating condition.

Technical Maintenance: How to take the right decision?

It is not always an easy task for a maintenance service to make the right decision. Check Mobility Work most precious tips for optimized maintenance routine.

CNC : Eliminating Following Error by Identifying Backlash

Following error, also called axis-positioning error appears occasionally on CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) software as Num, Ge Fanuc, Heidenhain.

My maintenance service without CMMS

If your maintenance service has been running without CMMS for years and you do not know how to improve it, then why not analyzing the daily activities of many maintenance services which run without any CMMS.

CMMS: Which challenges for your maintenance service?

The analytics tool of the CMMS Mobility Work allows the manager to take the right decisions regarding the maintenance tasks to carry out on each equipment.

How to invest in the right equipment ?

You have to invest in a new piece of equipment, but how to take the right decision knowing that certain investments can reach up to several million euros?

Lubrication and greasing: working principle

Lubrication is a process which aims at reducing friction between two moving pieces by injecting a fluid or grease to separate them. Lubrication has many advantages.

Maintenance key factors to a better management

Maintenance aims at the following objectives: maximum equipment availability, costs and risks reduction. Its targets spans volume production increase, expenses reduction and profitability.

5 corrective and preventive maintenance levels you need to learn about

A better knowledge of the different maintenance levels will enable you to manage better your interventions on your industrial equipment.

Toyota forklift main issues

There are many TOYOTA forklifts within the Mobiliy Work community. The ones which require most maintenance are 45-027FD45, TYS 35, 45-427FD40, 528FDJF35 and 7FBEF18.

Predictive maintenance: 8 Keys to a Successful Implementation

Preventive maintenance is carried out according to extrapolated forecasts resulting from the evaluation of significant equipment degradation parameters.

Technical Maintenance: Time and Staff Optimization Analysis

Improve maintenance costs, optimize your schedules, and reduce non-value added activities. A maintenance model to improve operational efficiency is of critical importance.

ABB Robots main issues

ABB robots main issues. Thanks to the Mobility-Work community, 12000 hours of maintenance work has been performed on this type of equipment.

Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance is planned technical maintenance, performed regularly at predetermined intervals. The main goal of preventive maintenance is to minimize the likelihood of a machine’s failing.

Autonomous Maintenance: 5 Steps to Successful Implementation

Autonomous maintenance is a crucial component of the TPM.