FacilityBot – Facilities Management Software https://blog.facilitybot.co/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:56:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://blog.facilitybot.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-facilitybot_favicon_32-32x32.png FacilityBot – Facilities Management Software https://blog.facilitybot.co/ 32 32 OEE for Facilities? Why Uptime Metrics Matter Beyond the Factory Floor https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/oee-for-facilities-why-uptime-metrics-matter-beyond-the-factory-floor/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:56:22 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10109 Ask a manufacturing engineer how a production line is doing and you will get a number: its OEE. Ask most facilities teams how the chillers, air handlers, and pumps are doing and you will get a story. “They’ve been okay.” “We had a rough August.” “The east wing is always a problem.” Stories are useful,

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]]> Toolbox Meeting Topics for Maintenance and Facilities Teams: A Practical Safety Agenda https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/toolbox-meeting-topics-maintenance-facilities-teams/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:09:30 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10107 Use this practical toolbox meeting agenda to brief maintenance crews, record attendance, manage hazards, and track safety actions.

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]]> Fire Alarm Panel Trouble Codes: What Facilities Teams Need to Know https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/fire-alarm-panel-trouble-codes-what-facilities-teams-need-to-know/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:26:05 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10101 It is 7 AM. A yellow light is glowing on the fire alarm panel and a small buzzer is chirping every few seconds. Nobody is evacuating, nothing is on fire, but everyone who walks past asks the same question: “Is that something we should worry about?” The answer is yes, though not in the way

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]]> Chiller Fault Codes: A Facilities Manager’s Troubleshooting Guide https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/chiller-fault-codes-a-facilities-managers-troubleshooting-guide/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:06:21 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10097 The call usually comes at the worst moment: a hot afternoon, a full building, and a chiller display showing a code nobody on shift recognises. Someone presses reset. It runs for ten minutes and trips again. By the time a contractor arrives, the original fault has been cleared and re-triggered so many times that the

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]]> Standard Operating Procedure Template for Facilities: Format, Examples and Digital Approval Workflow https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/standard-operating-procedure-template-facilities/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:18:27 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10094 Use this facilities SOP template to standardise inspections, maintenance and approvals, then turn procedures into auditable digital checklists.

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]]> School Building Maintenance Checklist: What to Include https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/school-building-maintenance-checklist-what-to-include/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:35:12 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10088 Most school facilities teams have a checklist somewhere. It might be a laminated sheet on a clipboard, a spreadsheet inherited from a former colleague, or a PDF downloaded years ago. The problem is rarely that no checklist exists. The problem is that nobody is sure it covers the right things, at the right frequency, with

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]]> Creating a Preventive Maintenance Plan for K-12 Schools https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/creating-a-preventive-maintenance-plan-for-k-12-schools/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:28:25 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10083 Ask a district facilities director what keeps them up at night and the answer is rarely one dramatic failure. It is the slow pile-up of small things: a filter change pushed back a month, a fire alarm test logged on paper and then lost, a roof drain nobody checked before the autumn rain. Each one

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]]> How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Schedule for Schools https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/how-to-build-a-preventive-maintenance-schedule-for-schools/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:19:42 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10078 A school building has to work on the first day of term, whatever happened over the summer. The cooling system that was “mostly fine” in June has to run through September heat. The fire alarm has to pass its inspection with paperwork to show for it. The hot water has to reach 120°F, and the

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]]> FMEA for Facility Assets: Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Improve Preventive Maintenance https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/fmea-facility-assets-preventive-maintenance/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:58:09 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10076 Learn how facility teams use FMEA to identify asset risks, create inspection tasks, and prioritise preventive maintenance work orders.

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]]> Workplace Safety and Health (WSH): Identifying Unsafe Acts and Unsafe Conditions in Facility Operations https://blog.facilitybot.co/blog/wsh-unsafe-acts-unsafe-conditions-facility-operations/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:51:56 +0000 https://blog.facilitybot.co/?p=10073 Learn the WSH meaning, how to identify unsafe acts and unsafe conditions, and how facility teams can report, correct, and track hazards.

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