Design Maintenance Systems Inc.

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MAINTelligence™ combines comprehensive mobile asset health inspections, integrated condition monitoring, powerful AI-based diagnostics and asset management to form the world’s most complete APM solution.

09/01/2026

Be honest: how many times have your planners already rebuilt this week’s schedule?

If your maintenance planners struggle to follow through on plans because unexpected downtime keeps blowing up the schedule, they’re not doing anything wrong. They’re just working without the right tools.

Most planners are still building schedules based on a calendar rather than on what the assets themselves show. With vibration, infrared, and lubrication data connected to each asset, the way MAINTelligence™ does it, planners can build a schedule around what’s happening to the equipment instead of hoping the plan holds. That’s what Asset Performance Management looks like day-to-day, and it’s how you set your planners up to win instead of scrambling.

Is your team stuck rebuilding the plan every week? Book your 10-minute Reliability Strategy Conversation and let’s fix that. Link in bio or in the comments.

Ever feel like your team is only using half of what MAINTelligence™ can actually do? Seats are open for our September tr...
08/26/2026

Ever feel like your team is only using half of what MAINTelligence™ can actually do? Seats are open for our September training, and we recommend registering early to hold your spot.

If it has been a while since your last session, or there are still features you have not tried, this is a good time to catch up. These live online trainings work whether you are new to the platform or have been using it for years, and they cover updates to the system you may not have explored yet.

Level I: September 14 to 18, for building a stronger foundation
Level II: September 21 to 25, for sharpening more advanced skills

Sign-up now, registration link is in the comments or in our bio.

08/25/2026

A question we hear often: does Asset Performance Management only make sense for large plants?

Our take: Not at all. The scale of the program should match the plant, not the other way around.
A smaller operation might start with Operator Basic Care routes covering a handful of critical assets. A larger, multi-site plant might need a full APM platform integrated with an ERP. The starting point looks different depending on plant size, but the underlying need, catching problems before they become failures, stays the same.

Do you think plant size should ever be an excuse to delay building a reliability program? Let us know your take in the comments.

08/20/2026

In our years working with plants, the most common pushback we hear isn’t “we don’t need this.” It’s “we can’t prove it will pay off.” That’s a fair worry. It’s hard to put a number on a failure that never happened.

If you’re working without a proper asset management program, we have stories from other plants that made the switch and can show you what changed.

Read their stories to see what convinced them. Link in bio or in the comments.

08/19/2026

You seem to be doom-scrolling a lot for someone whose CMMS data hasn’t been reviewed since Q1.

No judgment, just a nudge. Unreviewed data has a way of hiding costs until they show up as downtime. Overdue PMs stack up, small anomalies go unnoticed, and patterns that could predict a failure sit buried in reports nobody opened. None of it looks urgent until a machine tells you otherwise.

A regular review is not busywork; it is how you catch the expensive problems while they are still cheap to fix.

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08/15/2026

Starting an asset management program from scratch? Skip vibration analysis and infrared thermography for now. Start with Operator Basic Care inspections and lubrication routes. Your operators already walk the plant floor every day, and with a bit of training and a simple checklist, they’ll start catching leaks, strange noises, overheating, and loose components before those turn into real problems.

Get that foundation right, and the rest of the program builds on solid ground.

If you want to know if your asset management program fits your plant, read our latest blog, link in bio or in the comments.

08/14/2026

If you still think asset performance management is just fancy maintenance, here’s a story that’ll change your mind.

A fire broke out at one of our client’s plants, and when crews went to use the firefighting system, there was barely any water. A valve had been left in the wrong position, probably for a while, and nobody caught it until the fire forced the issue.

The equipment itself was fine. It just couldn’t do its job because of one valve nobody had checked.
Read the full story on our blog to see what changed after. Link in bio or in the comments.

08/11/2026

James Kip Finch spent his career at Columbia writing engineering’s history. One line of his stuck: “The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history.”

You’re not thinking about history when you’re chasing a vibration issue or rewriting a l**e schedule. You’re thinking about the next shift. But every day the plant keeps running, every failure that never happens because someone caught it early, that’s history too. Most people just don’t see it that way.

Send this to your favourite engineer who deserves the reminder that they’re doing a great job and changing history

08/07/2026

For reliability engineers and plant managers: how does your team prioritize which aging assets get replaced versus which ones get a revised maintenance strategy?

Replacing every aging asset isn’t realistic, and keeping everything on the same maintenance schedule it has always been on is how you end up with failures you didn’t see coming. The decision usually gets made under pressure, after something breaks, rather than as part of a deliberate strategy.

Start with failure history. If an asset has a repeating failure mode that a revised lubrication schedule, updated inspection frequency, or a monitoring solution could address, replacement may not be necessary yet. If the failure modes are unpredictable and the consequences are high, that is a different conversation.

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08/04/2026

Planning an EAM or APM implementation? Skip these common mistakes plant teams make during migration.

Bringing over your old system’s structure feels safer, but it usually creates more work down the line. Every platform organizes data differently, and forcing your previous system’s logic into a new one rarely holds up.

The better approach: treat migration as a content transfer, not a structural blueprint. Move your data over, then let the new platform’s own logic guide setup instead of recreating what you’re used to.

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201–38 Fell Avenue
North Vancouver, BC
V7P3S2

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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+16049843674

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