<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Waiotech · Technical notes</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/</link><description>Waiotech · Technical notes</description><language>en</language><item><title>The PM plan is complete on paper. Why doesn’t it get done?</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/pm-on-paper/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/pm-on-paper/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Most treatment plants have a PM plan. The problem is rarely the plan itself; it is the gap between the plan and the work that can actually be done this week.</description></item><item><title>Released, but not ready to start: readiness in maintenance work</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/released-not-ready/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/released-not-ready/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A work order that has been approved may still not be ready to start. The difference between the two, and why the reason for “not ready” has to be visible on the job itself.</description></item><item><title>Position or equipment? Why the history of a location and of a pump should be separate</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/position-vs-equipment/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/position-vs-equipment/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The pump installed today at the “return sludge pump 1” position may be in the workshop or somewhere else next year. Tie the history to only one of them and half the story is lost.</description></item><item><title>How to prepare your equipment list for a CMMS rollout</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/equipment-list-cmms/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/equipment-list-cmms/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An equipment list that has grown in a spreadsheet for years is rarely usable by maintenance software as it is. A few simple steps that shorten commissioning and make the data trustworthy.</description></item><item><title>Spare parts and work orders: where does the link break?</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/spare-parts-work-orders/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/spare-parts-work-orders/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The part was in stock, but it went to another job. The part has arrived, but nobody knows. Why the store and maintenance usually work blind to each other, and what connects them.</description></item><item><title>Field work in a treatment plant, when the network isn’t everywhere</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/field-work-offline/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/field-work-offline/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The underground pump station, the filter gallery and the far end of the sludge area usually have no signal. Digital field work has to be designed for exactly these conditions from the start.</description></item><item><title>Maintaining filters and backwash pumps in a water treatment plant</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/filters-backwash-pumps/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/filters-backwash-pumps/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Sand filters are the heart of treated water quality, and backwash pumps and blowers are the plant’s least-used and hardest-worked equipment. Notes on maintaining the whole set.</description></item><item><title>Aeration blowers: looking after the most expensive equipment in a wastewater plant</title><link>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/aeration-blowers/</link><guid>https://waiotech.com/en/notes/aeration-blowers/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Blowers use most of a wastewater plant’s electricity, and their failures hit dissolved oxygen directly. A look at the maintenance, history and repeat failures of this equipment.</description></item></channel></rss>