MAPCON CMMS Blog

March 27, 2025

How Restaurant SOPs Improve Efficiency & Restaurant Operations

Do you have a favorite restaurant? Why do you like it? Good food? Excellent service? Ambiance? Cleanliness? A combination of one or more of the above?

Part of the reason(s), you frequent the eating establishment comes from business practices that every successful company follows. I refer to standard operating procedures. (SOPs).

Of course, these practices vary from industry to industry. However, maintaining them, as you'll read later, garners loyalty and enhances reputation.

In this article, we will focus on:

• What Are Restaurant SOPs & Why Do They Matter?
• Key Benefits of Implementing Restaurant SOPs.
• Specific Practices Followed By Restaurants.
• How a CMMS Can Enhance Restaurant Operations & SOP Compliance.

Running a restaurant involves a delicate dance. From perfectly cooked meals to impeccable service, every step needs to be precise and consistent. This is where Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) come in – the secret ingredient for a successful restaurant.

March 26, 2025

Planned Maintenance Optimization (PMO): Boost Efficiency & Reduce Costs

Companies look to succeed through increased efficiency, increased productivity, and reduced costs. Often, management looks at a maintenance department as a looming expense. Instead, they should view it as an investment and aid to further overall success.

However, maintenance supervisors and workers must review their own operations. Maintenance management success comes from scrutinizing the existing strategy and focusing on achieving the same goals as listed above. Part of this must concern planned maintenance optimization (PMO).

People often refer to planned maintenance as preventive maintenance. You look at routine tasks that focus on keeping assets at a baseline functionality. They include inspections, lubrication, cleaning, etc.

Who Benefits from Planned Maintenance Optimization?

All companies can use this. The primary benefits go to smaller to mid-size companies that have developed an outline of maintenance but haven't established systematic routines. They could be companies that adopted a reaction-based mindset. This means that you don't pay attention to assets until they develop issues, fail, or break down.

March 25, 2025

How OTD Improves Maintenance Management Success

Do you ever feel disappointed when a package arrives a day too late? Perhaps for a birthday or Christmas? While you experience frustration, you can get over the delay and move on.

How about if purchase orders don't arrive when expected at your workplace? Clients contract for your products or services. You strive to provide on-time delivery. Shouldn't you expect the same from the vendors who supply you?

What is the risk here? Well, let's put this in the perspective of asset management. Equipment, machines, and vehicles all contribute to your production. Assets need maintenance. Maintenance requires parts and supplies.

March 24, 2025

How to Prioritize Maintenance: 8 Essential Tips for Success

"People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done." – J. Maeda

"Holy cow, Bob, get your priorities straight!"

We've all heard a similar admonishment at least once in our lives. Often, it comes after a deadline was close or missed for something more important than what we were otherwise doing.

If one steps back for a second and looks at everyday life, we prioritize with almost every choice we confront. Sometimes it's a quick decision and we don't recognize that we did set one thing as being more important than another. What's the priority – sleeping in or going to work? Doughnuts for breakfast or something more healthful? Is it necessary to pass that slow car during rush hour traffic? Do you spend time with friends or with your significant other? Is it more important to have that eight hours of sleep or stay up a little longer?

The above are routine and for the most part, mundane. However, what priority do you place on annual physicals with your doctor? Schedule the oil change? Inspect the home's roof or foundation?

March 20, 2025

How MRO Enhances Maintenance Efficiency and Business Success

Maintenance department teams use a lot of terminology to define the various activities done in a company. This discussion focuses on Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO). Read on to learn the following:

• Understanding MRO and Its Role in Maintenance Efficiency.
• How Facilities Utilize MRO to Improve Operations.
• Why MRO is Crucial for Maintenance Efficiency and Business Growth.
• The Role of MRO Across Industries.
• How CMMS Optimizes MRO for Better Maintenance Efficiency.

March 19, 2025

How Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP) and CMMS Improve Maintenance Efficiency

When you look at the overall family tree of maintenance management, you have several members branching off. Assets, Inventory, Preventive Maintenance, and Work Orders. Within each of those, you'll find further breakdowns for you to consider.

You also should add one more branch to this tree: Reports. In fact, you could put this in each of your sub-categories of management. You need different reports for each area.

Today, we'll discuss one report called Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP). It belongs under the Assets section. It accompanies similar reports, such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and overall operations effectiveness (OOE).

March 18, 2025

Workplace Safety Success: Facility and Safety Management Tips

We all strive for safety in our lives. Safe at home. Safe while driving. Safe while traveling. Make safety in the workplace the top priority. Here, as in other areas of our lives, safety measures take many forms.

• Structural security with locks, alarms, etc.
• Computer security to avoid malware and data breaches.
• Internal measures for employees to work in a comfortable and safe environment. These may include proper lighting, clean stairwells, and protective guards on machines.

In this article, we'll discuss the following:

• Facility safety definition.
• Tips to have success in facility safety.
• How a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) benefits.

March 17, 2025

SaaS Benefits: Why CMMS Provider Hosting is the Future of Maintenance Management

Normally, when you purchase software, you install it onto your computer. While this may benefit you, what happens if your computer develops a glitch and you lose your information? What happens if your computer breaks down?

If you have discussed investing in a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), you know the importance of saved information. The solution: SaaS or web-based CMMS software. In this article we'll do the following:

• What is SaaS and How Does It Work?
• Why SaaS and CMMS Provider Hosting Are the Future of Maintenance

March 13, 2025

The Role of Facility Management in Sustainability: Best Practices

Companies strive to reduce expenses. A huge percentage of those expenses include energy consumption. Businesses need sustainable energy resources for water, electricity, or natural gas.

March 12, 2025

Understanding the P-F Curve: How Reliability-Centered Maintenance Optimizes Maintenance Strategies

As you strive for maintenance management success, you utilize many concepts and ideas to improve your strategy. For better asset management, many supervisors turn to the P-F Curve. In this article, we'll discuss the following:

• What is the P-F Curve in Maintenance?
• How Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Enhances the P-F Curve Approach.
• Minding Your Ps and Fs: Key Points on the P-F Curve.
• How a CMMS Supports the P-F Curve and RCM Strategies.