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How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Schedule for Equipment
How to decide what needs scheduled servicing, set sensible intervals, keep statutory inspections from lapsing, and avoid the schedule everyone ignores.
Employee Equipment Agreement: What It Should Contain and Why
What belongs in an equipment handover agreement, what makes one enforceable in practice, and why a signature at the moment of handover changes behaviour.
Straight-Line vs Written-Down Value Depreciation for Equipment
The two methods most asset registers offer, what each does to book value, and how to choose one for equipment you actually use rather than for the accounts.
AMC vs CMC vs Warranty: Which Equipment Cover You Actually Have
Three kinds of cover, routinely confused, with materially different consequences when something breaks. What each includes, how they overlap, and what to record.
Repair or Replace Equipment? A Four-Factor Decision Framework
Most organisations make this call on instinct, because the four facts that should decide it live in four different places — or nowhere at all.
What Lost Equipment Actually Costs (And How to Calculate It)
Replacement price is the smallest part of it. Four other costs that rarely make it into the figure, and a method for producing a number you can defend.
Asset Management for Small Businesses: A Practical Setup Guide
You don't need a system designed for a 5,000-asset estate. Here's a setup that takes an afternoon and covers what actually goes wrong at twenty to two hundred items.
Spreadsheet vs Asset Management Software: When to Switch
A spreadsheet is a perfectly good asset register right up until it isn't. Five signals that you've crossed the line, and what breaks first.
The ROI of Asset Tracking Software: How to Build the Business Case
Most business cases for asset tracking lead with recovered equipment, which is the hardest number to defend. Here are four that are easier to evidence and usually larger.