Field Maintenance

If you work in the electrical sector, you will know all about the latest amendment to the 18th edition wiring regulations (BS7671).  While some of the amends are relatively minor there are also some quite significant changes, so how do you ensure that all of your team will be compliant? This blog suggests some practical ways that you can manage such crucial changes through using [...]

It’s not just the construction industry facing the challenge of energy price hikes, supply chain issues, material shortages and inflated prices. It’s hitting the services and maintenance industries too. Managing a field services business against a backdrop of price hikes, and materials and parts shortages, poses significant problems, especially since customer expectations have evolved [...]

Unplanned Maintenance vs Unscheduled Maintenance When is Unplanned Maintenance Required? How to Optimise Your Unplanned Maintenance Output Unplanned maintenance is simply any maintenance work that happens unexpectedly and has not been anticipated. This type of maintenance is often reactive work to fix equipment or assets and occurs when there is a lack of formal strategy in place for [...]

What is Smart Scheduling? How can Smart Scheduling Benefit Your Company? How Can Smart Scheduling Improve Customer Experience? Trust Joblogic to Deliver a Smart Scheduling Solution Are some of your employees feeling the strain of working too many hours? Perhaps your back office always finds itself in a crunch when trying to schedule employee shifts, not quite knowing who’s capable an [...]

Building services and Facilities Management (FM) firms are busier than ever as they deal with a backlog of non-urgent maintenance and repairs. But despite the easing of lockdown restrictions, it’s not quite business as usual just yet. Deep concern about coronavirus continues, and many people in both residential and commercial settings are still wary of tradespeople and engineers visit [...]

As people return to workplaces, pubs, restaurants and shops, there is a renewed focus on how we keep buildings safely ventilated during Covid and beyond. All eyes are on the Facilities Management and HVAC sectors for guidance on making this happen. This blog explores ventilation solutions in the context of Covid-19, how ventilation in buildings after Covid can finally get the attentio [...]

Covid-19 has changed the way we do things; for on-site workers, meticulous precautions have been introduced to keep everyone safe. Now the end of the lockdown is in sight, will things just slowly go back to normal or will some of the new safety protocols remain? BESA (the Building Engineering Services Association) is urging against safety complacency as lockdown restrictions ease. Wit [...]

Managing work orders effectively can be crucial to long-term business success. In doing so, you can empower your field service team to improve their job completion and first-time fix rates. So, what’s the secret? We’ve put together the ultimate guide to mastering work orders in 2021. Contents What is a work order? What is the best 8-step work order process? (Infographic) What shoul [...]