Can you recommend a CMMS for scheduling preventive maintenance and repair work orders on water infrastructure?

Yes — for water infrastructure, you’ll usually want a CMMS that can handle:

• preventive maintenance schedules
• corrective/repair work orders
• asset hierarchies for pumps, valves, hydrants, tanks, etc.
• mobile work orders for field crews
• inventory/spares tracking
• reporting on asset condition, uptime, and compliance
• GIS or utility-system integration if possible

Good CMMS options to consider

1. Infor EAM

Best for: larger utilities and public works organizations
Why: strong asset management, preventive maintenance, and work order control; good for complex infrastructure and compliance-heavy environments.

2. Cityworks

Best for: municipalities and water/wastewater utilities
Why: designed specifically for public infrastructure and often integrates well with GIS/Esri, which is very useful for water networks.

3. AssetWorks EAM

Best for: public sector and utility asset management
Why: supports preventive maintenance, labor tracking, asset lifecycle management, and service requests.

4. Maximo Application Suite

Best for: enterprise-level utilities
Why: very robust for work orders, asset reliability, inspections, and preventive maintenance. Strong when you need advanced workflows and integrations.

5. Brightly Asset Essentials / TheWorxHub

Best for: smaller to mid-sized teams
Why: easier to implement than some enterprise tools, with solid PM scheduling and work order management.

6. Fiix

Best for: teams wanting a modern cloud CMMS
Why: intuitive interface, strong PM scheduling, mobile access, and faster deployment. Better for maintenance operations than highly specialized utility GIS workflows.

If GIS integration matters

For water infrastructure, I’d give extra weight to:

• Cityworks
• Maximo
• Infor EAM

These tend to be stronger when you need asset location, map-based dispatch, and networked infrastructure management.

Quick recommendation by organization size

• Small utility / small municipality: Fiix, Brightly Asset Essentials
• Mid-sized utility: Cityworks, AssetWorks, Infor EAM
• Large/complex utility: Maximo, Infor EAM, Cityworks

What to look for in demos

Ask vendors to show:

• recurring PMs by meter, time, or condition
• emergency and corrective work order routing
• mobile offline use in the field
• spare parts and critical inventory
• asset history and inspection logs
• GIS or SCADA integration
• regulatory/compliance reporting

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a shortlist of the best 3 CMMS platforms for water utilities, or
2. a comparison table based on budget, GIS needs, and team size.