World Class Maintenance Library Collection

Introducing our brand new library of downloadable World Class Maintenance Fundamental learning guides from UpKeep's Expert In Residence and World Class Maintenance Vice President, Ricky Smith, CMRP, CMRT, CRL covering a wide range of topics related to maintenance and reliability, from maintenance best practices to advanced strategies for optimizing your operations. Simply click on any topic of interest below to download the article and share with your teams!

Library Collection:

3 Simple Rules to Improve Equipment Reliability

The 4 Reasons Why We Accept Lubrication Failure

7 Days to Better Equipment Reliability

7 Ways to Make Your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling More Effective

10 Things to Know about Maintenance Best Practices

14 Steps of a Preventative Maintenance Optimization Process (PMO)

Attributes of a Highly Effective CMMS

Bearing Failures, Deficiencies, and Their Causes

Best Maintenance Repair Practices

Best Maintenance Technician Practices

Calculating Maintenance/Reliability Initiative ROI

CMRP Exam 101

Common Sense in Maintenance Welding

Creating a Business Case for Change

How to Create a Culture Change in Your Maintenance Department

Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Technician

SMRP – Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

Developing PMs for Hydraulic Systems

Developing PMs for Hydraulic Systems 2 

Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Manager

Equipment Reliability Contribution to Product Quality

Equipment Criticality Analysis Fundamentals

Boiler Room: Everybody's got an excuse

Everything you maybe want to know about a proactive maintenance storeroom

Exterminate Lube Problems

Facts about Maintenance Wrench-Time

Failure Elimination Made Simple

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Get Out of The Dark

How to Decrease Equipment Failures by Following a Few Simple Tips

How to Develop and Implement a Successful Maintenance Skills Training Program

How to Develop and Implement Multiskilled Training

How to Embed a Root Cause Analysis Culture in Your Maintenance Group

How to Hire a Highly Effective Maintenance Manager or Maintenance Supervisor

How to Increase Effectiveness of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Toolbox Talk: How to Know if Your CMMS/EAM is Effective and Options if it Is Not Meeting Expectations

How to Know if Your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is Effective or Not and What to do about it

How to Move From Reactive Maintenance to Proactive Maintenance, Step by Step

How to Optimize Your Maintenance Organization

How to Reduce Total Maintenance Cost with a Few Simple Steps

Human Error in Maintenance is High Because of a Lack of Effective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Human Reliability Impacts Asset Reliability

Hydraulic PM Procedure Example

Is your Maintenance Organization Proactive?

Key Performance Indicators: "Leading or Lagging and When to Use Them”

Key Performance Indicators

KPI: Measuring and Managing the Maintenance Function

Lean Maintenance and How to Apply

What is Lean Maintenance?

Lean Materials Management

Lean Reliability

Losses from a Functional Failure

Lubrication Test

Maintenance / Reliability Assessment

Maintenance Assessment with Master Plan

Maintenance of Hydraulic Systems

Maintenance Best Practices of Hydraulic Systems

Maintenance Planner/Scheduler Position Description

Maintenance Planning/Scheduling Assessment

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Best Practices

Maintenance Planning is Too Hard in My Workplace

Maintenance Process Mapping

Maintenance Team and Their Roles and Responsibilities with CMMS

Maintenance Technician Test #2 - Bearings

Maintenance Technician Test #1 - Lubrication

Maintenance Technician Skills

Maintenance Utilization Survey Checklist

Masterclass – Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices plus SMRP BoK virtual via Zoom

Maintenance Basics

Motivating Maintenance Technicians 101 Webinar

Tool box talk: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Best Practices

Tool box talk: Preventive Maintenance 105

Preparing for Maintenance Certifications Tips + Tricks

Tool-Box Talk Preventive Maintenance 101

Tool-Box Talk Preventive Maintenance 102

Tool-Box Talk Preventive Maintenance 103

Tool-Box Talk Preventive Maintenance 104

Reach for Reliability

Reliability-Centered Maintenance

Reliability is Worth a Second Look

Root Cause Analysis for Maintenance Leadership and Technicians

Root Cause Analysis Techniques/Fundamentals

Scheduled Routine Motor Care Maintenance Program

Simple Tips to Improve Maintenance Scheduling and Planning in 30 Days

Accurate Work Order Close Out

Handling of Bearing: Single Point Lesson

Single Point Lesson-How to Implement Maintenance Planning and Scheduling “Best Practices” in your Organization

Single Point Lesson - Maintenance and Reliability KPI Dashboards

Single Point Lesson - Roller Chain Drives

Single Point Lesson -Preventive Maintenance Fundamentals

Single Point Lesson-V Belt Maintenance 101

Single Point Lesson – The Role of a Maintenance Planner

Single Point Lesson- CMRP Exam Recommendations

Six Tips for Optimizing a Preventive Maintenance Program

Skills of a Proactive Maintenance Technician

Preventive Maintenance Best Practices

Metric Hierarchy Discussion

Steps to Optimize Maintenance Planning and Scheduling in any organization

The Basics for Kitting Parts in Maintenance Planning/Scheduling

Top 5 Reasons Why Companies Don't Measure Reliability

The Top 10 Reasons Why Maintenance Planning is Not Effective

Top 5 Reasons Why Companies Don't Measure Reliability

Understanding the SMRP Body of Knowledge

Rebuilding A Maintenance Program: An Insider Look at Walter Reed Army Medical Center Building 18

What you need to know to prepare for the CMRP Exam

Why to attend a Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Workshop?

Why Maintenance Procedures Are Critical to Success

Why People Do Not Understand the P-F Curve

“Writing Repeatable / Effective Corrective Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance Procedures”

More Added Soon! 

4,000+ COMPANIES RELY ON ASSET OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Leading the Way to a Better Future for Maintenance and Reliability

Your asset and equipment data doesn't belong in a silo. UpKeep makes it simple to see where everything stands, all in one place. That means less guesswork and more time to focus on what matters.

Capterra Shortlist 2021
IDC CMMS Leader 2021
[Review Badge] GetApp CMMS 2022 (Dark)
[Review Badge] Gartner Peer Insights (Dark)
G2 Leader