Features of The Maintenance Club

The workflow of The Maintenance Club is simple yet effective.
The main elements of The Maintenance Club workflow are:

• Equipment - The element you want to work on. Your car, boat, lawnmower, computer, tractor or excercise equipment. Really this is anything you want to perform work on on a periodic basis. You can schedule work based on usage in average weekly hours or average weekly miles. The Maintenance Club will calculate the due date for your PM's based on your average usage and will update the current hours or miles to try to forecast when it's time to perform maintenance. Of course you'll always have the option to correct the actual usage and adjust your weekly estimates.
• Parts - The elements that will need to be replaced from time to time. Common parts used in auto maintenance can include oil, spark plugs, air filters etc.  Boat owners will regularly want to replace fuel filters, water maker membranes and the like. The Maintenance Club allows you to enter parts and inventory, as well as location, and will automatically debit your parts inventory when you perform a PM or corrective maintenance. If you enter a minimum number of parts to keep on hand, The Maintenance Club will notify you when your inventory falls below this minimum.
• Equipment/Parts - This is where we tie a part to a piece of equipment. This allows for stream-lining choosing parts that will be replaced during a given PM. You only have to enter a part once but can then assign it to any or all of your equipment. You may have two cars that both use 10W30 oil. With this feature you only have to track one inventory of oil but perform an oil change on either vehicle and The Maintenance Club will update your inventory accordingly.
• PM Service Item - This is your Preventive Maintenance item, your PM. You build your PM for a piece of equipment with parts and steps. It's pretty straight forward. You can include any part that's already tied to the equipment, or no parts if say the PM is a tire rotation or a water maker backflush for example. You then add the steps to perform during the PM. These can be as detailed as step by step instructions or as simple as "rotate tires".
• Corrective Maintenance - If we're performing our PM's reguarly hopefully we don't have to use this feature very often, but we are dealing with mechanical or electronic items and they simply don't last forever. Eventually we're going to have a breakdown. The corrective maintenance feature allows for recording the item that failed, and how it was fixed, plus record any parts used in the repair. If any parts are used your inventory will be debited accordingly.
• Email Notifications - The Maintenance Club allows you to opt in to Email notifications for PM's due, parts inventory that is below your minimum, and periodic news letters. We will send out a weekly Email listing PM's due in the coming week, if any. If no PM's are due, we don't send an email. We will send an email noting a part is below your minimum threshhold as soon as that condition occurs. We'll include any low inventory parts in the weekly PM email as well. Finally we may send out a newletter from time to time that contains helpful information pertaining to preventive maintenance.
• Groups - Many people work together on vehicles. Often friends work on their cars together, friends will help each other on their boats. Folks go in on a vehicle or boat together and will share the maintenance of it. For these reasons and more, The Maintenance Club uses the concept of Groups. When you create your account you will be asked to create an initial group. Once you've done this, you can invite a friend to join your group. After they have also created an account and accepted your group invitation, you will both be able to view and edit the Equipment, Parts and PM's assigned to that group. You can create multiple groups and have Equipment, Parts and PM's in each. So if you share work on your boat with a friend but you maintain your car yourself you can have a group for each and invite friends to help with the maintenance of the boat. There is no limit to the number of people in a group.
• The PM Wizard - The Maintenance Club uses a wizard to make the process of creating PM's a simple and quick process. Through the wizard you can add all the Equipment, Parts, Steps and scheduling information in a few easy steps that can have your first PM scheduled within a few minutes joining.