As a content creator at Eptura, Jonathan Davis covers asset management, maintenance software, and SaaS solutions, delivering thought leadership with actionable insights across industries such as fleet, manufacturing, healthcare, and hospitality. Jonathan’s writing focuses on topics to help enterprises optimize their operations, including building lifecycle management, digital twins, BIM for facility management, and preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. With a master's degree in journalism and a diverse background that includes writing textbooks, editing video game dialogue, and teaching English as a foreign language, Jonathan brings a versatile perspective to his content creation.
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The preventive maintenance program might have worked well enough back when you managed two warehouses, but now there’s multiple distribution centers across the country, and the old schedules that once prevented failures are generating expensive false starts while missing critical problems. Learn how to select software for multi-site preventive maintenance programs with these tips.
by Jonathan Davis on March 4, 2026
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Mobile technology can transform field operations, but for many organizations, implementation remains a roadblock. It’s usually not because of the technology, though. Learn to track the metrics that matter.
by Jonathan Davis on February 26, 2026
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Many maintenance teams are turning to condition monitoring, but sensors alone don’t save money. Success depends on platform-supported program execution. There’s different condition-based triggers that cut costs: Vibration, thermal, and duty cycle without “sensor sprawl”. Learn more about all three!
by Jonathan Davis on February 24, 2026
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When your technicians develop consistent habits around routing efficiency, real-time documentation, and thorough problem resolution, you build the data foundation needed to prevent failures rather than just responding to them. Learn technician habits that turn work orders into reliability data for field services
by Jonathan Davis on February 18, 2026
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When you’re managing assets across multiple locations, inconsistent hierarchies waste time and money. Technicians hunt for the right equipment. Preventive maintenance schedules miss critical assets. Compliance audits become archaeological expeditions. Learn best practices for naming conventions and parent-child relationships
by Jonathan Davis on February 16, 2026
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The audit burden is accelerating, with 85% of executives reporting that compliance requirements have become more complex in the last three years, according to PwC’s Global Compliance Survey 2025.
by Jonathan Davis on February 12, 2026
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Predictive maintenance (PdM) promises to transform reactive firefighting into proactive intervention, but many enterprise facility teams struggle to move beyond pilot paralysis, the months spent debating which assets to monitor, endless discussions about sensor integration, and teams questioning whether prediction accuracy will justify implementation costs before launching a single pilot.
by Jonathan Davis on February 11, 2026
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The question “where is it?” costs logistics and fleet operations billions of dollars every year. A trailer that should be at the depot is somewhere in the yard. Equipment scheduled for deployment sits idle at the wrong location. Fleet vehicles are missing maintenance windows because nobody knows their actual status or where they’ve been.
by Jonathan Davis on February 10, 2026
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Federal facility managers face a long-standing challenge that’s also quickly growing: they’re making decisions based on assumptions instead of data, right when Congress demands they justify every square foot.
by Jonathan Davis on February 6, 2026
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Managing operations across these distributed, often isolated work environments requires more than just talented technicians, though. You need technology built for the realities of the field.
by Jonathan Davis on February 3, 2026
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The transformation enabled NOAA to manage their geographically distributed facilities with consistent standards and automated reporting, fulfilling their obligation to taxpayers while supporting the agency’s scientific mission.
by Jonathan Davis on January 27, 2026
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Ready to transform your inspection routine with automated scheduling, mobile workflows, and immediate work order generation that helps you catch issues earlier and improve asset reliability?
by Jonathan Davis on January 21, 2026