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Maintenance

Service records, work orders, preventive maintenance, and incidents.

How to Record a Service Record in UniAsset

Log maintenance that has been performed on an asset — what was done, when, what it cost, and who did it — so the work reaches your cost reports.

5 minBeginner

Understanding Work Orders in UniAsset

What a work order is, the three types, the four priority levels, and who in your organization can create, assign, and close them.

5 minBeginner

How to Create a Work Order in UniAsset

Raise a work order against an asset, set its type and priority, and hand it to a technician — the step-by-step guide.

5 minBeginner

How to Assign a Work Order to a Technician

Assign work orders, log time and materials, attach before and after photos, and use internal notes to keep a job moving.

5 minBeginner

Work Order Lifecycle — From Open to Closed

The work order statuses in UniAsset, how work moves between them, what happens when an order is closed, and how to reopen one properly.

6 minIntermediate

How to Complete and Close Maintenance Work

Finish a work order properly in UniAsset — record what was done, log time and cost, complete the checklist, and close it so the cost reaches your reports.

5 minBeginner

How to Set Up Preventive Maintenance in UniAsset

Create preventive maintenance rules that schedule recurring service, warn you before work is due, and raise a work order automatically when it falls overdue.

6 minIntermediate

How Preventive Maintenance Work Orders Are Raised Automatically

What happens when a PM rule falls overdue, what the automatic work order contains, and how completing it resets the schedule.

4 minIntermediate

How to Handle Corrective Maintenance in UniAsset

Raise and manage corrective work orders when something breaks, and let failed inspection items raise repair work automatically.

4 minBeginner

How to Report an Incident in UniAsset

Record a failure, accident, or significant event against an asset, and capture a locked snapshot of the asset's state as evidence.

5 minIntermediate

How SLA Deadlines and Escalation Work in UniAsset

How UniAsset calculates work order response deadlines from priority and asset criticality, what happens on a breach, and how the escalation chain notifies your team.

6 minIntermediate

How to Find and Clear Overdue Maintenance

Find maintenance that has slipped past its due date in UniAsset, understand what happens automatically when it does, and work through the backlog.

4 minBeginner

How to View Maintenance History in UniAsset

Find the full service history of one asset or of your whole organization, and use it to answer questions about reliability, cost, and compliance.

4 minBeginner

How to Track Maintenance Costs in UniAsset

See what maintenance is costing you by asset, category, and department, and find the assets consuming a disproportionate share of the budget.

5 minIntermediate

How to Decide Whether to Repair or Replace an Asset

Use UniAsset's cost-risk analysis, total cost of ownership, and net book value to decide when an asset has stopped being worth repairing.

5 minIntermediate