Preventive maintenance lives in a spreadsheet.
PM schedules sit in binders and tabs that nobody updates. Tasks slip, intervals get guessed, and equipment quietly drifts toward run-to-failure.
Engineer
You keep the building running. Activate makes sure nothing fails on you without warning.
You keep mechanical, electrical, and life-safety systems running, with maintenance logs in binders and equipment history in your head.
Activate turns every asset into a live, documented record you can actually rely on.
Equipment gives no warning.
The first sign of trouble is a tenant complaint or a unit already down. By the time you hear about it, it is an emergency call, not a planned repair.
Compliance is a paper chase.
Boiler, fire, elevator, and backflow inspections live across folders and emails. Proving you are current means digging, not clicking.
Building systems were never meant to run on memory and paper.
Activate keeps every system on schedule and on the record.
PM SCHEDULE · AUTO-GENERATED
TUEsensor
Replace AHU-3 filters
triggered · pressure drop
THUruntime
Chiller 1 · quarterly tube clean
runtime hours reached
FRIcycle
Boiler 2 · combustion check
calendar · 90-day interval
MONcode
Fire pump · weekly test
compliance · NFPA 25
COMPLETED · LOGGED
✓Cooling tower treatJ. Ruiz
✓Elevator A · monthlyvendor
✓Backflow inspectionsigned
✓Generator load testlogged
Preventive maintenance that runs itself.
Tasks generate from runtime hours, sensor thresholds, and compliance intervals, not a binder someone has to remember to open. Every completion is timestamped and signed off, so PM history and code inspections are always one click from proof.
WORK ORDER · #4192
AHU-3 · fan belt slipping
AssetAHU-3 · Roof
Modelon file
Manualattached
→
ASSET SERVICE HISTORY
Belt replaced
B-78 · same part in stock
Bearing serviced
vendor · Atlas Mech.
3rd belt issue · 12 mo
pattern flagged · check sheave
Resolved · documented
photo · parts · 28 min
Every work order carries the asset's full history.
The moment a ticket opens, you see the equipment's model, manual, parts, and every prior repair. Recurring problems get flagged so you fix the root cause, and each resolution is logged with photos and parts for the next engineer who opens it.