CIO Bulletin

UpKeep – Empowering Essential Maintenance Workers to be More Productive through the Adoption of Modern, Cloud-Based Technology

Maintenance management is an important component of a well-functioning production. It helps companies maintain their resources while controlling time and costs to ensure maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process, the utilities and related facilities. It is a tool that helps to secure a reliable and satisfactory quality of the production, safety for employees and protection for the environment. Maintenance management is also referred to as CMMS, which stands for Computerized Maintenance Management System. Maintenance is an important factor in quality assurance and in some cases determines the long-term success of a company.

UpKeep is a customer-first software company revolutionizing maintenance, facility, and asset management systems. Their cloud-based application and Industrial IoT devices are solving real problems for skilled technicians and managers at businesses everywhere. The company is passionate about innovation, community, and providing a best-in-class customer experience. The company is creating the best tool on the market for managers to communicate with technicians in the field and for technicians to respond to urgent issues without having to shuffle through paperwork or return to the office. They make completing work orders easy, intuitive, and mobile-first so everyone can contribute and stay on the same page.

The Asset Operations Management Platform

It is a mobile-first CMMS, EAM & IIoT suite of solutions proven to streamline the work order process and take you from reactive to preventive maintenance. Asset Operations Management unites maintenance, operations, and reliability data to help teams make important business decisions, with full visibility across the entire life cycle of maintenance, asset management, and operations. The cloud-based Asset Operations Management system is mobilizing teams, modernizing workflows, and maximizing operational efficiency for over 3,000 customers including Shell, Yamaha, Unilever, McDonalds, Subway, Pepsi, and Marriott. Asset Operations Management (AOM) closes the divide between maintenance, reliability, and operations teams by fusing capabilities found in CMMS, EAM, and APM solutions. This captures and leverages active and passive data from each functional area to provide a complete asset operations life cycle view.

Operations teams can use Asset Operations Management to get a holistic view of their company’s programs, while also linking team-specific metrics to the broader business goals. Asset, maintenance, and reliability data can now be linked to executive metrics like revenue, cash conservation, margin, and more. With Asset Operations Management, reliability teams can get the data they need to inform their programs and strategies. This new paradigm is supported by easy-to-use, affordable technology that offers the same advanced capabilities as enterprise-grade solutions without the sticker shock. By offering sophisticated functionality, including sensor-based asset monitoring, Asset Operations Management helps reliability teams adopt predictive maintenance practices in a cost-effective and scalable manner.

Offering Wide-Range of Maintenance Management Solutions and Services

Modern CMMS Solution: Take command of your asset maintenance and reliability with UpKeep’s CMMS capabilities. More than just a CMMS, the Asset Operations Management platform equips every Maintenance, Reliability, and Operations team with the tools and information needed to run effectively. With UpKeep’s CMMS capabilities, users can improve their maintenance management process, lower costs, ensure worker safety and compliance, and gain data-backed insights. This mobile-first technology is easy to use and helps technicians be more efficient. With a CMMS solution, technicians can eliminate the time-consuming, burdensome task of double data entry. They no longer need to record information related to work orders on paper, and then spend time entering that data into desktop software once the work order is complete. Instead, they can use their mobile-friendly app to log data onsite in real-time; which boosts their efficiency and productivity. Plus, a CMMS organizes work orders so technicians always have access to the right information in a single, up-to-date place.

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Software: Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the process of maintaining and controlling physical assets and equipment throughout their life cycles. With UpKeep, it’s easy to track warranties, maintenance, depreciation, decommission of your assets, and much more. Boost productivity with mobile work orders, and gain robust insights to manage the full asset life cycle. With UpKeep’s asset management solution, you can even automate preventive maintenance tasks on your mobile device, so you can keep business running smoothly all the time. UpKeep’s reliability dashboard provides insights into asset performance, total downtime, mean time between failures, and mean time to repair. Achieve the full useful life of your assets through uncovering breakdown trends and implementing preventive maintenance schedules.

Asset Performance Management (APM): Maximize your equipment availability and reliability with UpKeep’s powerful APM capabilities. Harness the power of your data and give your operations team the tools and information needed to increase asset availability, decrease downtime, and improve the performance and lifespan of your equipment. UpKeep’s APM capabilities aggregate and transmit data via a secure cloud gateway for everyone on your team to utilize. Whether you have one location or many, UpKeep offers a complete look at vital data and maintenance tasks across all locations. APM capabilities enable you to track important data points, including temperature and humidity, remotely as well as help to visualize data over time. Your reliability engineers can then review stored data to optimize maintenance strategies to increase asset health and performance.

Ryan Chan | CEO