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title: "CMMS Guide: Guides for Maintenance Teams — FixAhead"
description: "Each CMMS guide takes one decision: choosing one, rolling it out, and running the maintenance it supports."
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# CMMS guides

One guide for each decision a maintenance team makes around a CMMS, from choosing one to cutting costs.

- ## Choosing a CMMS

  The criteria, the question to put to each vendor, and what the purchase costs beyond the license. [Read the guide](/guides/choosing-a-cmms/)
- ## Implementing a CMMS

  The order to roll out in: an owner, the data and its import, roles, training, paper, and the first weeks after go-live. [Read the guide](/guides/implementing-a-cmms/)
- ## Building a preventive maintenance program

  List the assets, rank them by criticality, choose each one's strategy, and set intervals from its record. [Read the guide](/guides/building-a-preventive-maintenance-program/)
- ## Maintenance metrics and KPIs

  The metrics worth tracking, how each is worked out, and how to choose the few your team can act on. [Read the guide](/guides/maintenance-metrics-and-kpis/)
- ## Cutting maintenance costs

  Where cost can be cut, the order to cut in, and the parts stock that keeps repairs from waiting. [Read the guide](/guides/cutting-maintenance-costs/)