Preventive Maintenance
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Webcasts
Webcasts
- Best Practices for Prioritizing Preventive Maintenance (PDF)
Join Frank Thrift, Work Order Manager at Old Dominion University, to hear how his Maintenance and Operations team overcame numerous obstacles to establish and administer an effective scheduled maintenance plan. - Best Practices for Prioritizing Preventive Maintenance
Join Frank Thrift, Work Order Manager at Old Dominion University, to hear how his Maintenance and Operations team overcame numerous obstacles to establish and administer an effective scheduled maintenance plan. - Webcast: Preventive Maintenance - A Vital Component of a Comprehensive Asset Management Program
This webcast features Mike Covert of Welty Facility Services Group. - Facility Masters: Benchmarking School Operations and Maintenance
Industry expert from Benchmark4Excellence and a peer from Keller ISD, TX review the essentials of benchmarking your maintenance and operations efforts. Learn best practices for accurately measuring and analyzing your work, as well as how to develop an improvement plan and assess your progress. - Webcast: Preventive Maintenance Program Implementation Made Simple
Discover how Paul Cooper, Director of Operations at Coopersville Area Public Schools, and his M&O team overcame numerous obstacles to establish and administer an effective scheduled maintenance plan. - Facility Masters: Auditorium and Theatre Safety for Schools
Industry experts from the State of New Mexico and Teqniqal review the essentials of properly maintaining auditoriums and theaters to ensure safety. Learn how performing and documenting regular inspections and maintenance can help you reduce the risk of litigation while protecting the health of students, employees and community members. - Facility Masters: Integrated Pest Management Essentials For Schools
Industry experts from the University of Arizona and EnviroSafe review the essentials of an effective Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. You'll learn how IPM can provide significantly better pest management with less pesticide use and no increase in cost. - Webcast: Internet Maintenance Management Systems
Join Erin Miller from Colorado School of Mines to hear how she was able to get her facility maintenance system running and producing results in 14 days. Learn to increase operational efficiencies, begin communicating with your requesters, improve response times and customer service, and easily track facility data and generate reports. - Facility Masters: Indoor Air Quality Essentials for Schools
Industry experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) review the essentials of proactively managing indoor air quality to positively impact teaching and learning in your schools. You’ll learn how increasing IAQ can help you improve the learning environment for students and teachers while also reducing costs and legal risks. - Facility Masters: Bleacher Safety and Maintenance
Industry expert from Hussey Seating Company reviews the essentials of properly maintaining bleachers to ensure safety. You’ll learn how regular bleacher inspection and maintenance can help you reduce costs and legal risks while ensuring the safety of students and community members. - Facility Masters: Energy Cost Cutting Strategies in K–12 Operations and Maintenance (PDF)
Margo Appel of the U.S. Department of Energy and Roger Young of Roger Young and Associates discuss strategies from the new Guide to Operating and Maintaining EnergySmart Schools. - Facility Masters: Air Conditioning System Maintenance
Industry experts from Hartford Steam Boiler discuss how a comprehensive, scheduled maintenance program for air conditioning systems can help your school improve energy efficiency and reduce capital losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Air Conditioning System Maintenance (PDF)
Industry experts from Hartford Steam Boiler discuss how a comprehensive, scheduled maintenance program for air conditioning systems can help your school improve energy efficiency and reduce capital losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Playground Safety
David Parker, a National Playground Safety Instructor for NRPA, reviews the essentials of building and maintaining safe playgrounds. Learn how regular playground inspection and maintenance can help you reduce legal risks while protecting the school’s most valuable assets – your students! - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Roofs
Tremco, a leading provider of roofing solutions, reviews the essentials of preventive maintenance for roofs, including the most common maintenance and repair issues. Learn how regular roof inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Roofs (PDF)
Tremco, a leading provider of roofing solutions, reviews the essentials of preventive maintenance for roofs, including the most common maintenance and repair issues. Learn how regular roof inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Boilers
Industry expert from Hartford Steam Boiler discusses how regular boiler inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Boilers (PDF)
Industry expert from Hartford Steam Boiler discusses how regular boiler inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget. - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance - Its Importance and Its Best Practices
Learn to extend the life of their facilities and protect your capital investments by implementing a preventive maintenance program. - Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance - Its Importance and Its Best Practices (PDF)
Learn to extend the life of your facilities and protect your capital investments by implementing a preventive maintenance program.
Podcasts
Podcasts
- Facility Masters: Smart Cleaning for Schools (mp3)
Hear school experts from Fraser Public Schools, MI and Blackhawk School District, PA review Smart Cleaning policies and processes for Schools. You will learn how to develop and implement a Smart Cleaning program that improves the educational environment while helping you save money and time. Click here for iPod mp4 version.
Case Studies
Case Studies
- Case Study: Snoqualmie Valley School District #410 Takes Their “one-man show” Online for Increased Productivity
Carl Larson, Plant Operations Supervisor at Snoqualmie Valley School District #410 in Washington State, is the quintessential “one-man show” – with an overflowing task list and not enough time in the day to get all the work done. It is a familiar role for many school operations professionals across the country, but Carl decided he needed a partner to maximize his time and effectiveness. Enter – SchoolDude. - Case Study: Perris Union High School District
Q&A with Hector Gonzales, Maintenance and Operations Supervisor for Perris Union High School District, in Riverside County, CA. - Case Study: Gresham–Barlow School District Streamlines Capital Planning Process
For Terry Taylor, Operations and Maintenance Supervisor at Gresham–Barlow School District, the answer was a “10 hour work day” until he began utilizing PlanningDirect from SchoolDude. Today, he can generate a current capital needs report for the entire school district – or a customized report showing needed roof replacements at all schools or needed HVAC replacements only at the elementary schools – in under 3 minutes. - Case Study: Shaker Heights
FSDirect allows Shaker Heights to have immediate access to what’s going on in buildings. Users feel more involved and at ease with more information at their fingertips. This makes streamlining events easier by avoiding conflicts. - Q&A: Lewis-Palmer School District
Q&A with Jim Carter,Maintenance and Operations Manager and Ann Taylor, Assistant to Maintenance and Operations Manager of Lewis-Palmer School District. Learn how MaintenanceDirect helped them automate their work order system and how UtilityDirect allowed them to track, and ultimately cut, utility costs. - Case Study: Lewis-Palmer School District
Colorado school district deemed the most energy efficient building in state, with help of SchoolDude utility software. - Case Study: Datatel and Olivet Nazarene University
Olivet Nazarene University improves customer service with Datatel and SchoolDude - Q&A: Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Q&A with Christine Barrow, Facilities Technical Assistant and Data Specialist at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College on how SchoolDude helped them generate maintenance reports to justify their headcount and funding and set up preventive maintenance schedules. - Q&A: University of Northern Iowa
Q&A with David Fuller, Facilities Manager of Department of Residence at University of Northern Iowa on how SchoolDude helped them automate the work order process and generate valuable maintenance reports. - Q&A: Elgin Community College
Q&A with Cal Byrd, Manager of Plant Operations & Custodial Services on how SchoolDude helped him streamline the work order process - Case Study: Datatel and Ocean County College
SchoolDude's on-demand solutions provided the ideal choice to help OCC properly plan, manage and maintain their facilities while maximizing existing resources. - Q&A: Westerville City Schools
Q&A with Jenna McDevitt, Director, Business Services/Purchasing at Westerville City Schools, OH on how SchoolDude helps them monitor operational costs by maintaining accountability for all spend categories related to operations. - Q&A: Central Bucks School District
Q&A with Scott Kennedy, Director of Operations at Central Bucks School District explaining how he streamlined processes for work orders, preventive maintenance and inventory control. - Q&A: Chandler Unified School District
Q&A with Chandler USD, AZ on how SchoolDude helps them save time, save money and help the IT and maintenance departments work closer together. - Case Study: Christian Academy
Christian Academy automated their work order process with MaintenanceDirect, enabling requesters to submit work requests over the Internet and automating the process of routing requests for approval and completion. - Case Study: Medford Township Public Schools
Medford Township Public Schools went from a 5-part-form paper system to a streamlined, online solution which saved time by allowing faculty and staff to submit requests online anywhere at any time. - Case Study: Surrey School District 36
Canadian public school district is left dry after a 3-year implementation of a maintenance solution when company went belly up; SchoolDude's MaintenanceDirect saved the day. - Case Study: Snoqualmie Valley School District
Snoqualmie Valley uses SchoolDude to manage 750,000 gross square feet and 10 buildings. - Case Study: Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University replaced a legacy system with MaintenanceDirect, saving time and money with a more efficient maintenance and preventive maintenance workflow.
White Papers
White Papers
- Software as a Service: A Powerful Tool for Today's School Facilities Management
For facility management administrators in higher education, SaaS empowers the provisioning of solutions that are powerful, effective, and quick to implement to meet their growing demands within budget constraints. - Software as a Service for Education: Do More for Less, Faster
This white paper by Karen Greenwood Henke of Nimble Press discusses how school districts, large and small, have discovered software-as-a-service (SaaS) as a way to save time and money without reducing services.
Data Sheets
Data Sheets
- Value: Understanding the Value of SchoolDude’s Maintenance Management Solutions
MaintenanceDirect is a powerful, on-demand application which allows an educational institution to streamline the entire work order process from request to completion, improving communication and accountability. MaintenanceDirect tracks all submitted work requests, records transactions for labor/purchases associated with work requests, and associates work orders to equipment, budget codes and projects for cost purposes. - Datasheet: All Products
SchoolDude software suite address the key operational areas for any type, shape and size educational institution, including colleges and universities, public and private schools. SchoolDude solutions include work order management, facility scheduling, inventory management, preventive maintenance, utility analysis, capital planning, IT help desk and asset management and more. - Datasheet: PMDirect
PMDirect™ is a powerful, on-demand preventive maintenance scheduling tool that helps you create, assign and manage recurring maintenance tasks efficiently.
Tools
Tools
- Sample: Monthly Playground Inspection Form
This sample monthly playground inspection form was originally presented in the Facility Masters Playground Safety webcast featuring David Parker, a National Playground Safety Instructor for NRPA. - Indoor Air Quality and Energy: A Conservation Fact Sheet
- Self Assessment Components
Inspection/work guides for preventive maintenance - Sample Heating Boiler Log
Heating Boiler Log Example from Hartford Steam Boiler - Sample SchoolDude PM Work Order
Sample SchoolDude Preventive Maintenance Work Order using ideas from the EPA's IAQ Tools for Schools inspection checklists - AED Monthly Check
AED Monthly Check from the Michigan PM Templates - Sample Exit Lights Monthly Check
Exit Lights Monthly Check from the Michigan PM Templates - Sample Commercial Roof Inspection Form
Sample Commercial Roof Inspection Form by the Midwest Roofing Contractors Association - Softball Field Diagram
- Soccer Field Diagram
- Baseball Field Diagram
- Research: Indoor Air Quality in Relation to Student Performance
A research study from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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