The problem
Running planned maintenance alongside reactive repairs is one of the hardest things to do in a field operation. Both matter. Both compete for the same technicians, the same time, and the same attention.
Most teams lose the battle with their own schedule without realising it.
An emergency comes in. A technician is redirected. The maintenance visit that was due this week gets pushed. Then pushed again. No one is tracking whether it ever happened.
Maintenance schedules exist somewhere — a spreadsheet, a calendar, someone's memory. But there is no live view of what is on track and what has been missed. You find out when a client asks why their equipment has not been serviced.
There is no system distinction between a job that was triggered by a breakdown and a job that was scheduled three months ago. Priority, urgency, and context are lost.
Maintenance logs are in one place. Repair records are in another. No one has a complete picture of what has been done to each piece of equipment across both types of work.


