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Equipment being checked on site
Cost & lifecycle

How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Schedule for Equipment

How to decide what needs scheduled servicing, set sensible intervals, keep statutory inspections from lapsing, and avoid the schedule everyone ignores.

16 Sept 2026 4 min
Laptops issued and set out on a desk
Custody & accountability

Employee Equipment Agreement: What It Should Contain and Why

What belongs in an equipment handover agreement, what makes one enforceable in practice, and why a signature at the moment of handover changes behaviour.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
Colleagues collaborating over a laptop
Cost & lifecycle

Straight-Line vs Written-Down Value Depreciation for Equipment

The two methods most asset registers offer, what each does to book value, and how to choose one for equipment you actually use rather than for the accounts.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
Server racks in a data centre
Cost & lifecycle

AMC vs CMC vs Warranty: Which Equipment Cover You Actually Have

Three kinds of cover, routinely confused, with materially different consequences when something breaks. What each includes, how they overlap, and what to record.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
Equipment prepared for issue
Cost & lifecycle

Repair or Replace Equipment? A Four-Factor Decision Framework

Most organisations make this call on instinct, because the four facts that should decide it live in four different places — or nowhere at all.

16 Sept 2026 6 min
Field equipment in use
Buying guides

What Lost Equipment Actually Costs (And How to Calculate It)

Replacement price is the smallest part of it. Four other costs that rarely make it into the figure, and a method for producing a number you can defend.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
Colleagues collaborating over a laptop
Buying guides

Asset Management for Small Businesses: A Practical Setup Guide

You don't need a system designed for a 5,000-asset estate. Here's a setup that takes an afternoon and covers what actually goes wrong at twenty to two hundred items.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
A team working together in an office
Buying guides

Spreadsheet vs Asset Management Software: When to Switch

A spreadsheet is a perfectly good asset register right up until it isn't. Five signals that you've crossed the line, and what breaks first.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
Laptops issued and set out on a desk
Buying guides

The ROI of Asset Tracking Software: How to Build the Business Case

Most business cases for asset tracking lead with recovered equipment, which is the hardest number to defend. Here are four that are easier to evidence and usually larger.

16 Sept 2026 5 min