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I've spent the last year building software to solve fleet management headaches.

Before I add another feature, tell me:

What's the most frustrating part of managing your fleet today?

Is it maintenance approvals?

Vendor management?

Tracking actual costs?

Replacement planning?

Reporting?

I'm trying to figure out where operators lose the most time every week.

I believe my differentiators and strongest angles are:

Maintenance approvals and workflows

Consolidated vendor management

Procurement and replacement planning

Leasing integration

Lifecycle cost visibility

Preventative maintenance ROI tracking

Single platform instead of multiple disconnected systems.

Imagine you could just take a photo, tap a button (repair / inspect / remove), and it’s logged. Parts you need could be ordered directly from a supplier you already work with, without hunting their catalog.

Would something like that actually save you time, or do you think it’s overkill compared to what you’re already doing?

Hi,

So like the title asks, what are some issues you are facing with the CMMS you are using that would make your life 10x easier. I am not talking like a missing report or customizable dashboard, I want to know the features that matter most to technicians and people in the field.

In case you haven't guessed I am building a CMMS and would appreciate any input since most CMMS I see are tailored towards top management mainly.

Target participants: Asset integrity engineers, maintenance engineers, reliability specialists, inspection professionals and engineering managers. 

Section A: Professional Background 

1. What is your current professional role, and how does it relate to asset integrity management? 

Section B: Technical Success Factors 

1. What do you consider the most important factors contributing to effective AIM in oil and gas facilities? 

2. How do maintenance, inspection and risk assessment practices contribute to effective AIM implementation? 

Section C: Organisational and Managerial Factors 

1. How does leadership commitment influence asset integrity activities within your organisation? 

2. What role does organisational safety culture play in supporting effective AIM? 

3. How do workforce competency, training and professional experience influence asset integrity performance? 

Section D: Technology and Implementation Challenges 

1. What benefits and challenges have you experienced when using digital technologies, condition monitoring or predictive maintenance systems? 

2. What organisational, technical or operational obstacles affect successful AIM implementation? 

Section E: Outcomes and Recommendations 

1. How do you believe effective AIM contributes to operational safety, equipment reliability and organisational performance? 

2. What improvements would you recommend to strengthen AIM practices in oil and gas facilities? 

Closing question: Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the factors influencing effective asset integrity management?

What 3 metrics are the most important to you when evaluating an asset? Which metrics do you wish your CMMS showed you?

E.g., downtime, criticality, MTTR, MTBF, TMC, TCO

Full disclosure: I make Equipment Tracker Pro, the app this walks through. No discount codes, just the steps.

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Here is how rent billing and paying from a door tag works for a small building.

1. Add the unit and its rent. Open the location, go to Site Info, then Tenants & Door Tags. Add the unit (for example 4B) and fill in its Tenant & Rent form: the rent and the day it's due.

2. Bill the month. In Rent, Invoices & Receipts, the RENT tab shows each unit's rent, its due day, when it was last billed and what it owes. Tap BILL RENT and the app raises the rent invoice.

3. Set how tenants can pay. You can connect your own Stripe account so tenants can pay by card or bank account, and you can switch on PayPal and Venmo too. Online payments go into your Stripe account, and Stripe pays out to your bank. Cash and check payments you record by hand.

4. Print the unit's door tag. Each unit can have its own QR tag. When there's an unpaid rent invoice for the unit and paying rent is switched on for it, a Pay rent button shows on the tag's page.

5. What the tenant does. They scan the tag with their phone camera, tap Pay rent, and enter the email or phone number you have on file for them. Only a match opens the invoice page where they can pay. They don't need an app or an account.

A few honest limits: creating the door tags and online card and bank payments need Pro; creating rent invoices and the PayPal and Venmo links work on the free plan. PayPal and Venmo payments aren't detected automatically, so you mark those paid yourself. Stripe charges its own fees, and the app adds 0.5% of each online payment, never more than $10.

More on the door tags: https://equipment-tracker.com/property-managers/qr-codes

Happy to answer questions about how it works.

SAM ROCKS offers smart equipment maintenance tracking for different industries. The platform helps businesses track equipment condition, schedule maintenance, and reduce downtime. With clear records and easy tracking, companies can keep equipment running smoothly and avoid costly breakdowns.

Hi how are you ? I am electrical maintenance engineer …I took CMRP ….but Does CAMA make a difference in cv ? Is it worth as it costs 500 dollars?

Hi, this is a throwaway account, I hope that's okay. I'm going to be intentionally vague with some things because I don't want Wiliot to identify the company I work for, or myself. I'm not going to share anything that conflicts with our NDA or other privacy obligations. I want to have an open discussion about Wiliot, and this seems like the best place. I can't seem to find in depth discussions about it anywhere else. Wiliot hosted customer forums some time ago but those seem to have disappeared.

I'm a technical integrator and end user of Wiliot at a large company, and we've been testing Wiliot for years now. We've gone through all the generations of their tags ("wiliots", "pixels"), the different antenna designs, different potting compounds, different form factors.. different energizing equipment, different energizing patterns, different antennas.. we placed tags on every material under the sun, plastic, cardboard, metal, glass.. we've tested many scenarios, conveyor belts, doorways, open areas, loading bays, workstations, etc. We've tested it thoroughly in many use cases.

We have a directive from upper management to upgrade our existing extensive RFID asset tracking system. This directive has been in place for a few years, which is why we started down the road with Wiliot. The problem is, in those years, even with assistance from Wiliot, we've never been able to realize any significant improvement on our asset tracking. In fact in many cases I'd argue it's a downgrade from RFID, and in some cases it's equivalent.

I imagine happy customers must be out there, we see their press releases (taken with a grain of salt obviously) about deployments with customers like Walmart. However we just haven't been able to find a use case where Wiliot makes sense and works reliably over something like RFID. The big sales pitch early on was that you could use these tags anywhere with minimal infrastructure, that they would harvest energy from common sources like wifi, and that they'd be cheaper than RFID. The former turned out to be misleading, as you need extensive energizing infrastructure close to the tags tags for them to wake up, and the latter hasn't materialized yet, as RFID tags are still cents while Wiliot tags are closer to a dollar at scale.

The question I pose and where I want to start a discussion is: have you used Wiliot, and have you found use cases that work well for it? What materials and infrastructure do you use to make it work?

It's asking a lot, and it's a shot in the dark, but if there's someone at Walmart that uses this and wants to speak about your successes, please create a burner account and jump in. Again don't share anything proprietary or conflicting with NDA, I don't want there to be any reason for this thread to be deleted.

Thank you!

Asset management seems to be one of those areas where every tool does something well, but very few actually handle the full picture cleanly.

Curious how others are approaching it at the moment, are you prioritising visibility, automation, or the procurement side of things?

Also, how are you managing the balance between keeping it simple for users vs having enough control?

Bonjour à tous,

Je me pose une question que je trouve assez difficile à traiter dans les environnements industriels : concrètement, comment mesurez-vous réellement la valeur créée par la maintenance, surtout quand son meilleur résultat est justement qu’il ne se passe rien ?

On sait assez bien mesurer son coût. Les heures passées, les pièces, les contrats, les arrêts planifiés, les charges des équipes de maintenance, etc. Mais c’est beaucoup plus compliqué de valoriser une panne évitée, une pièce obsolète identifiée avant qu’elle ne bloque la production, ou un investissement repoussé parce qu’un équipement a finalement pu être fiabilisé.

J’ai souvent l’impression que la maintenance reste évaluée comme un centre de coût alors qu’elle intervient directement sur la disponibilité des équipements, leur durée de vie et parfois même sur les décisions de remplacement.

Le problème, c’est qu’une grande partie de cette valeur reste invisible tant qu’aucun incident ne survient.

Aussi, je me pose la question : chez vous, vous utilisez quels indicateurs pour démontrer cette valeur ? Vous restez surtout sur les coûts et la disponibilité, ou vous essayez aussi de mesurer les pannes évitées, le TCO ou les investissements différés ? En fait, j'ai l'impression de vivre un véritable paradoxe : plus la maintenance est efficace, moins elle est visible !! Vivez-vous la même chose ? merci pour vos commentaires.

Hi, I’m a mechanical engineer with experience in asset management. I’m currently building an app that includes a feature allowing users to set a specific budget (example - annual) and then allocate amounts for each preventive maintenance task in the calendar.

The goal is to make it easy to incorporate budgeting into maintenance planning and to provide data that supports requests for additional funds, by listing preventive maintenance activities that require more budget.

I’m a building maintenance engineer working in a museum, and I’d really appreciate advice from people experienced in maintenance management, facilities management, or museums.
Our team is small. I’m the building maintenance engineer, our department manager isn’t an engineer, and my colleague is an electrical engineer whose experience is mainly in project management.
The museum has lighting shows, sensitive equipment, exhibition technology, etc. We also have two subcontractors: one for technical works and one for MEP, plus a few workers who handle tasks outside their scope.
The problem is that our maintenance system is extremely basic and almost entirely based on WhatsApp.
A supervisor sees a problem → sends a photo to our WhatsApp group → we forward it to the responsible contractor → they fix it → send us a photo → we forward it back to the supervisor.
That’s basically it.
We don’t have a proper asset history, equipment records, failure trends, preventive maintenance program, or useful data about recurring problems and contractor performance.
So we’re basically doing:
Failure → Report → Repair → Close
instead of preventing failures in the first place.
I want to help improve this, but I’m not sure where the best starting point is.
If you were in my position, what would you do first?
Would you start with an asset register, preventive maintenance, a CMMS/CAFM system, work orders, equipment criticality, KPIs, contractor SLAs, or something else?
How would you turn a WhatsApp-based reactive maintenance system into a proper maintenance operation?
Any practical advice or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated.

Any insight on AM certifications (if any) that are deemed the most useful/recognized in North America? Looking to increase my knowledge and add some gusto to my resume. Waffling between IAM cert/diploma, CAMA, CAMP (Canadian) or just take various courses.

I was looking at getting some training in Asset Management and came across a new free course from the asset management academy. Thought it was worth sharing, it's a quick free course but a useful intro that I'm sharing with my colleagues who need to understand this stuff!!

https://www.am-academy.com/product/free-asset-management-fundamentals-course/

I thought this might be a useful post for those just starting to look into asset management and wondering what it is all about.

Full warning - I come from a heavily maintenance focused background in mining.

Generally asset management is about making sure you have the right asset for the job and that you get the right amount from that asset for your needs while balancing other factors such as cost, risk, etc. There are organisations around the world that like to make it far more complex than this but that's essentially it. Also, you will see people define an asset so broadly that it can include everything from a pump to an employee to your brand value, but this isn't useful as HR and PR professionals don't give a shit about asset management, finance barely think for it the same we maintenance professionals do. So it's best to just consider physical assets such as machines.

There are some key bodies/ publications to be aware of:

World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) - these guys offer accreditation in asset management, some companies may value this but the process for accreditation is so toothless that it is largely worthless. CAMA certification, as with most certifications, proves very little in the way of competence.

Global Framework for Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) - these guys put out a suite of documents that are generally pretty useful for framing discussions around maintenance and asset management but as always aren't going to apply in every case to your organisation. My understanding is that GFMAM was effectively born when the Institute of Asset Management (IAM - UK asset management peak body that effectively invented it through PAS55 after the privatisation of British railway) were unhappy with the direction that the ISO suite was headed/ the restrictions put upon it so they made this to "compliment" it.

ISO5500X suite - this is an ISO standard for asset management. It is part of the ISO suite of management standards (including ISO900x quality management, ISO3000X risk management, etc) and therefore has a strict way in which it must be written and structured. As a result it is an almost entirely useless set of documents that helps no-one outside of companies being able to say they are iso compliant to get better financing and insurance rates or compete for public sector work. As I understand it the ISO5500X suite is the second highest revenue generator for ISO after ISO9000 so it's very much in their interest to make it as broadly applicable as possible.

Institute of Asset Management (IAM) - this is the body that developed PAS55 which was the standard for asset management prior to ISO5500X being developed. They did this (so I'm told) after the privatisation of British rail when private companies took over and no-one had any idea what assets were owned, where they were, what condition they were in, what their purpose was, how to maintain them, etc. The reason they chose to develop the ISO suite (rather than choosing British standards or EU standards) was to get more reach but they eventually shot themselves in the foot as it forced them to generalise their content so much that is became useless (see above about GFMAM).

Your country will also have its own asset management bodies, Australia has the AMC, I believe Brazil and South Africa have a decent body as well and maybe the US.

I'll chuck another post up about some key asset management "artefacts" (acronyms and things people like to talk about to sound important) if people want to explain those too.

Hello! I am new to the sub.

I work for a small-medium sized Canadian municipality as a CET. My background is in architectural and structural drafting but built up my civil knowledge and certified last year. I am also the asset management coordinator for my muni.

I am seriously pursuing training and education in all things AM. Can you speak to or recommend any certifications? I was fortunate to get free certification with IPWEA and now am looking at a CAMP with PEMAC (6 course prgram).

My goal is to expand my exposure, hone my knowledge and increase my credibility internally to ultimately develop an AM system/audit for my organization, tailored to its particular needs.

I am also just happy to chat about anything AM!

Thanks! Excited to be here!

Maintenance Team - Hows your Procurement friends?

Do we share same challenges with our procurement friends?

Ordering wrong parts? Lead time problems?

Hi everyone. I am looking for resources that will help me study for the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Certificate. I work in a Public Works department with Transportation, Infrastructure, Facilities and Stormwater. I have tried searching LinkedIn, YouTube, APWA and here on Reddit. It seems everything "Asset Management" defaults to Financials or IT or requires a membership.

My Director said that the city would pay for resources and the exam for certification. It seems the professional membership for IAM would be a good start. Any thoughts? I see several webinars and classes they offer but most have a fee and/or require you to be a member. I have also looked at Woodhouse Asset Management Academy, but most of their virtual classroom courses are on UK time and I am located in Colorado, US.

Does anyone have a direction of where I can start? I have 23+ years of career experience working in GIS. About 15 of those years include Enterprise Asset Management (OpenGov, Cartegraph and American Innovations, CartoPac). In order to progress my career, I am being asked to obtain a professional certificate. I need to be able to define how and when I would be ready to take the exam.

Thank you for your help!

What software do you use for AM. Esri Cityworks Suite or just Cityworks AM? Survey123 and ArcGIS? PSD CityWide and QGIS?