Asset Tracking & Equipment Management Statistics

£40 million

UK tool theft cost tradespeople £40m in 2024

UK tradespeople had an estimated £40 million of tools stolen in 2024 across 25,525 cases reported to police, even after tool theft fell 18% on 2023.

Direct Line for Business compiled police-reported tool theft cases across UK forces. The count covers reported cases only: separate Direct Line research puts the share of victims who never report at 23%, so the true volume is higher.

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66%

Two thirds of UK tradespeople have had tools stolen

Two thirds of UK tradespeople have been victims of tool theft, losing an average of £1,119 of tools per incident.

Censuswide surveyed 500 UK tradespeople for insurer Markel between 23 and 26 June 2025. Self-reported lifetime victimisation, not an annual rate, and the £1,119 average is per incident rather than per victim.

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£41.5 million

UK rural crime cost £41.5m in 2025

Rural crime across the UK, spanning farm machinery, vehicle and livestock theft, cost an estimated £41.5 million in 2025, down 6% on 2024.

NFU Mutual estimates from its own claims data, which covers roughly three quarters of the UK farming market. Claims-based, so it excludes uninsured losses and anything below policy excess.

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90%

Nine in ten NSW farmers have experienced farm crime

Nine in ten New South Wales farmers have experienced crime on their properties, including machinery, vehicle and livestock theft, and about 30% have been targeted seven or more times.

WFI Insurance claims data combined with the University of New England Centre for Rural Criminology National Rural Crime Survey. Self-reported victimisation across all crime types, not machinery theft alone, and NSW only.

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23%

Almost a quarter of UK tool thefts go unreported

Almost a quarter of UK tradespeople who had tools stolen never reported it to police, so published theft counts understate the real volume.

Direct Line business insurance research published April 2026, covering an estimated £35 million of tools stolen in 2025 at an average £1,300 per theft. Explains why police-reported counts are a floor rather than a measure. Cited via trade press because Direct Line Group’s own release now redirects to aviva.com after the 2025 Aviva merger, so the original release URL no longer resolves.

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US$300 million–$1 billion

Annual construction equipment theft in the US

Construction equipment theft costs the US industry between $300 million and $1 billion a year, with most estimates in the range of $400 million.

The estimate covers machines only. NER excludes stolen tools and building materials, damage caused during a theft, and business-interruption losses such as rentals, project-delay penalties and wasted crew time, so the amount a contractor actually carries is higher.

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21%

Recovery rate for stolen construction equipment

Only 21% of stolen construction equipment is ever recovered. Published recovery rates have consistently sat below 25%.

The NICB logged 11,574 reports of stolen machines in 2016 against 2,442 recoveries in the NCIC active theft file. The rate understates the problem: it counts neither machines that law enforcement recovered but never marked as recovered, nor thefts that were never reported.

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No source found

The viral 1 in 3 projects delayed by theft claim could not be verified

Our source review found no published evidence that 1 in 3 construction projects are delayed by theft or missing equipment.

The nearest verified data, the CIOB crime survey, found that 21% of UK professionals saw site theft weekly, but project delays were never quantified. The claim circulates uncited in vendor blogs and AI answers, often credited to a 2016 CIOB survey. The report is actually from 2009 - the 2016 in its file path is a website upload date.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#theft-delayed-projects-claim-check

Skid steers

Skid steers, not backhoes, lead machine theft

In the NER and NICB loader category, skid steers account for 70% of thefts against 22% for backhoes and 8% for wheel loaders, with 409 skid steers reported stolen to 182 backhoes.

NER groups front-end, tracked, wheeled, skid steer and backhoe machines in a single Loader category and splits it internally, which is where the shares come from. NER attributes the pattern to transportability rather than value: dozers and wheel loaders are worth more, but backhoes and skid steers move easily and do several jobs on site. We previously published backhoes as the most stolen type, followed by skid steers, which reverses this source.

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71.6%

Assets logged more than 30 days after they were received

A US Government Accountability Office audit found 71.6% of items were entered into the asset register more than 30 days after receipt, and 16.9% more than a year after. Delayed registration is how assets quietly fall off the books.

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-72%

Theft from vehicles in NSW fell 72% in a generation

Recorded thefts from motor vehicles in New South Wales fell from 90,528 in 2001 to 25,218 in 2025, a 72% decline over 24 years.

Derived by MapTrack from NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research recorded criminal incident data, which covers 62 offence categories monthly from January 1995. Recorded crime counts incidents reported to police, so it understates true volume, and the trend is NSW only.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#theft-nsw-from-vehicle-decline

-85%

Break-ins to NSW worksites and yards fell 85% since 2001

Break and enter offences at non-residential premises in New South Wales, the category covering worksites, yards and workshops, fell from 52,203 in 2001 to 7,639 in 2025.

Derived by MapTrack from NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research recorded criminal incident data. Break and enter non-dwelling is the closest available proxy for site and yard theft: it covers all non-residential premises, so it is broader than construction alone.

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+42%

NSW vehicle theft has risen 42% since 2021

Motor vehicle theft in New South Wales rose from 10,496 incidents in 2021 to 14,857 in 2025, a 42% increase, while theft from vehicles fell 9% over the same period.

Derived by MapTrack from NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research recorded criminal incident data. The two series diverge: whole vehicles are being taken more often while the contents of vehicles are being taken less often. Both remain far below their 2001 levels.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#theft-nsw-vehicle-theft-reversal

2.5x

Regional NSW outranks Sydney for theft from vehicles

Newcastle records 900 thefts from motor vehicles per 100,000 people against Sydney at 364, a rate 2.5 times higher. Regional centres take the top seven places statewide.

MapTrack analysis of NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research LGA rankings for April 2025 to March 2026, restricted to the 49 local government areas with 50,000 or more residents. The floor matters: without it the table is topped by areas of a few thousand people, where a single incident moves the rate by more than 18 per 100,000.

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69 a day

NSW records about 69 thefts from vehicles every day

New South Wales recorded 25,054 thefts from motor vehicles in the twelve months to March 2026, an average of about 69 a day.

Derived by MapTrack from NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research recorded criminal incident data for April 2025 to March 2026. Counts incidents reported to police in one state only, so it is a floor rather than a national estimate.

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January

Break-ins to NSW non-residential premises peak in January

Break and enter offences at non-residential premises in New South Wales run about 19% higher in January than in September, their quietest month.

MapTrack analysis of NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research monthly incident data for 2015 to 2025, indexed against the average month. January reads 112 and September 94. The seasonal swing is real but modest, and a single year should not be read as a trend.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#theft-nsw-worksite-breakin-january-peak

£800 million

Annual construction plant theft in the UK

Construction plant theft costs the United Kingdom an estimated £800 million each year, placing enormous financial pressure on contractors and driving up insurance premiums across the sector. The CESAR scheme was established to combat this through a national equipment registration and security marking programme.

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40–60% faster

GPS tracking accelerates insurance claim resolution

Equipment owners who maintain GPS tracking data resolve insurance claims 40 to 60% faster than those without it. Location and usage logs provide immediate evidence of loss circumstances, eliminating the guesswork that typically delays investigations and payouts.

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$40.8 million

Tools stolen from Victorian tradies in a single year

In the year to 30 June 2025, 36,708 hand and power tools worth $40.8 million were stolen from Victorian vehicles and worksites, a 7.5% rise on the year before, based on data from the Crime Statistics Agency in Victoria.

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US$725 million per year

Annual cargo theft losses across the United States and Canada

Estimated cargo theft losses across the United States and Canada surged 60% in a single year to nearly US$725 million in 2025, even though the overall number of supply chain crime incidents held steady.

Verisk CargoNet annual analysis of incidents reported to its national database: 3,594 supply chain crime events in 2025 against 3,607 in 2024, with confirmed cargo thefts up 18% to 2,646. Reported incidents are a floor on the true total. CargoNet attributes the loss surge to organised groups targeting higher-value shipments.

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US$273,990 per theft

Average value of a single cargo theft

The average value per cargo theft rose 36% in a year to US$273,990 in 2025, up from US$202,364 in 2024, as organised groups shifted from opportunistic theft to targeting extremely high-value shipments.

Verisk CargoNet annual analysis, averaged across confirmed cargo theft incidents reported to CargoNet in the United States and Canada. The rise reflects target selection, not more incidents: confirmed thefts rose 18% while total supply chain crime events were flat.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#cargo-theft-average-value

Only ~5%

Recovery rate for tools stolen across Queensland

Queensland Police recorded more than 25,000 tools stolen in the 2024-25 financial year, but only 1,283 were returned to their owners, a recovery rate of roughly 5%.

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US$22 billion (83%)

Deferred maintenance backlogs grew 83% in five years

Deferred maintenance and repair backlogs at four US federal agencies grew by about US$22 billion, or 83%, across the five years to FY2022.

GAO reviewed four selected agencies, so the figure is not a whole-of-government total. Deferred maintenance is work identified and then not funded in the year it fell due: the backlog compounds because deferral raises the eventual cost of the same repair.

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£49 billion

UK public facilities carry a £49bn maintenance backlog

The UK government has accumulated at least £49 billion of deferred maintenance backlog across public service facilities.

National Audit Office figure, January 2025, covering schools, hospitals, courts, prisons and defence estates. Stated as a floor rather than a point estimate: the NAO notes government does not hold complete condition data for parts of the estate.

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US$5.19 per square foot

Australian facility maintenance costs run double Asia

Australia and Singapore reported facility maintenance costs of US$5.19 per square foot, against a US$2.50 average across Asia.

IFMA operations and maintenance benchmarking, covering external and interior maintenance, roads and grounds, central systems and process treatment. Reported in US dollars per square foot for comparability across markets.

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+8.6% in one year

Annual rise in truck repair and maintenance costs

Truck repair and maintenance costs rose 8.6% in 2025, one of the largest line-item increases in the industry cost survey and well ahead of inflation, as carriers ran older equipment for longer.

ATRI Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking, 2026 Update. Repair and maintenance sat alongside tolls (+13.2%), driver benefits (+6.6%) and tyres (+6.4%) as the fastest-growing line items in 2025; only fuel and driver pay rose at sub-inflationary rates.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#truck-repair-maintenance-inflation

9%

Faulty workmanship and maintenance is the third top cause of corporate insurance loss

An Allianz analysis of 534,456 corporate insurance claims found that faulty workmanship and maintenance incidents are the third largest cause of loss by value, accounting for 9% of claims value and 7% of claims by number.

Scope: Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, Global Claims Review 2022, PDF page 5, with the dataset described on PDF page 2. Based on 534,456 corporate insurance claims from 207 countries and territories between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021, worth approximately EUR 88.7bn. Allianz groups faulty workmanship together with maintenance in one cause-of-loss category, and gives collapse or subsidence from faulty work, faulty manufacturing of products and components, and incorrect design as its examples, so the 9% is not attributable to maintenance failure alone. Claim values are 100% of each loss rather than only the Allianz share. Regional tables in the same report show different shares, so 9% is specifically the global figure.

Cite as: MapTrack Industry Statistics, https://www.maptrack.com/statistics#insured-loss-faulty-workmanship-maintenance

12–18%

Cost savings from preventive vs reactive maintenance

A preventive maintenance program saves an estimated 12% to 18% over running equipment to failure.

The US Department of Energy adds that facilities relying purely on reactive maintenance "could save much more than 18% by instituting a proper preventive maintenance program", and that moving on from preventive to predictive maintenance saves a further 8% to 12%.

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50–60%

CMMS adoption rate among maintenance teams

Approximately 50–60% of maintenance-heavy organisations have adopted a CMMS or EAM system, but many still underutilise features beyond basic work order management.

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> 90%

Best-in-class PM schedule compliance rate

Top-performing maintenance organisations achieve greater than 90% compliance with their preventive maintenance schedules. The average organisation sits at 70–80%.

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2–4 weeks

Ideal maintenance work order backlog

A healthy maintenance organisation maintains a 2–4 week backlog of planned work. Backlogs shorter than 2 weeks indicate under-identification of work; longer than 6 weeks signal resource or scheduling issues.

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35%

Typical wrench time in maintenance operations

Typical average wrench time is 35% of a maintenance workforce day on hands-on work, with the rest lost to travel, waiting for parts, paperwork and tool searches. Proper planning and scheduling lifts wrench time to around 55%, a 57% productivity gain, per Doc Palmer, author of the McGraw-Hill Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook.

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$0.15–$0.25 per km

Average commercial vehicle maintenance cost per kilometre

Average commercial vehicle maintenance costs range from $0.15 to $0.25 per kilometre, with reactive-only fleets paying 30 to 40% more than those with structured preventive programs. Tracking odometer readings and service intervals digitally helps fleet managers stay on the preventive side of the curve.

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46.3%

Share of fleet maintenance work that is unplanned

Benchmark data covering roughly 1.2 million assets and 8.85 million work orders found 53.7% of vehicle maintenance was scheduled, 40.1% unscheduled and 6.2% emergency, so unplanned work accounted for 46.3% of the total. Unplanned work carries expedited parts, overtime labour and knock-on downtime.

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12-18%

Savings from preventive maintenance over run-to-failure

US Department of Energy research finds that a preventive maintenance programme saves 12 to 18% on average versus reactive run-to-failure, while predictive maintenance can push savings beyond 30 to 40%.

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35% → 55%

Wrench-time lift from proper planning and scheduling

Typical average wrench time for a maintenance workforce is 35% of the day on hands-on work. Proper planning and scheduling lifts it to 55%, a 57% productivity gain, equivalent to a 20-person crew doing the work of 31, according to Doc Palmer, author of the McGraw-Hill Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook.

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> 55%

Share of maintenance activity that is still reactive

More than 55% of maintenance resources and activities at an average facility are still reactive, with 31% preventive and 12% predictive, according to the US Department of Energy O&M Best Practices Guide. The guide dates from 2010 but remains the canonical public reference for the maintenance mix.

Scope: US Department of Energy / PNNL O&M Best Practices Guide, Release 3.0, section 5.2, PDF page 50. The mix reproduces a study described by the guide as recent in winter 2000, so it is a historical US facility benchmark rather than a current global prevalence estimate.

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~80%

Best-in-class share of maintenance hours driven proactively

SMRP best-in-class labour distribution targets put preventive maintenance at 15% of total hours, corrective work identified by PM at 15%, predictive at 15% and corrective work identified by PdM at 35%, meaning roughly 80% of hours are proactive or proactively generated.

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1.0 / 2.5 hrs

Corrective work generated per hour of PM and PdM at top performers

On average, top performers produce about 1 hour of corrective work for each hour of preventive maintenance, and about 2.5 hours of corrective work for each hour of predictive maintenance, a public SMRP benchmark for inspection-program yield.

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10× ROI

Average results of a functional predictive maintenance program

US Department of Energy analysis of independent industry surveys reports average results of a functional predictive maintenance program as: 10 times return on investment, 25-30% reduction in maintenance costs, 70-75% elimination of breakdowns, 35-45% reduction in downtime and 20-25% increase in production. Predictive maintenance saves 8-12% over preventive alone, and up to 30-40% versus reactive-heavy operations.

Scope: US Department of Energy / PNNL O&M Best Practices Guide, Release 3.0, section 5.4, PDF pages 51-52. The guide attributes these industrial-average results to independent surveys and warns that predictive maintenance requires material diagnostic-equipment, training and program-development investment.

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US$222 billion a year

Total annual cost of maintenance to US discrete manufacturers

Maintenance costs US discrete manufacturers about US$222 billion a year once direct maintenance spending is counted alongside the losses that follow from faults, unplanned downtime, defects and lost sales.

Scope: NIST Machinery Maintenance Survey (Thomas and Weiss), published in the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management. Mean estimate US$222.0 billion, median US$211.8 billion, in 2016 dollars. It is a total cost of maintenance, NOT a figure for waste: the components are direct maintenance US$81.6bn, lost sales US$105.0bn, unplanned downtime US$18.4bn, additional cost of faults and failures US$15.7bn, inventory US$0.8bn and defects US$0.5bn. Survey base is 71 usable responses from 85 received. US discrete manufacturing only (NAICS 321-339, excluding 324 and 325).

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52.7% less unplanned downtime

Unplanned downtime gap between predictive-led and reactive-led maintenance

Surveyed US discrete manufacturers that lean on predictive and preventive maintenance report 52.7% less unplanned downtime and 78.5% fewer defects than those that lean on reactive maintenance.

Scope: NIST Machinery Maintenance Survey (Thomas and Weiss). Respondents were split by how heavily they rely on reactive maintenance; the half relying least on it, and most on predictive and preventive, recorded the gaps above. Among that group, those weighted further toward predictive over preventive recorded a further 18.5% less unplanned downtime. Survey base is 71 usable responses from 85 received, so treat the decimal precision as an artefact of a small sample rather than a measurement guarantee. Self-reported; US discrete manufacturing only (NAICS 321-339, excluding 324 and 325).

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545%

Calculated ROI of a structured preventive maintenance program

A Jones Lang LaSalle engineering analysis of a 14-million-square-foot telecom property portfolio calculated an NPV of US$2 billion over 25 years for a $39 million per year preventive maintenance program, an ROI of 545%. The study dates from the early 2000s and covers facilities rather than mobile plant, but remains the most-cited PM ROI calculation in the literature.

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US$36.3 billion by 2028

Global asset tracking market size forecast

The global asset tracking and management market is projected to reach $36.3 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 13.4% from 2023, driven by IoT adoption, regulatory compliance, and supply chain visibility demands.

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18.5% CAGR

IoT in construction market growth rate

The IoT in construction market is growing at 18.5% CAGR, driven by GPS fleet tracking, equipment telematics, site monitoring, and digital twin technologies.

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US$2.1 billion by 2028

Global CMMS software market size

The computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) market is expected to reach $2.1 billion by 2028, as organisations shift from reactive to preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.

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10 billion scans a day

Barcodes remain the default asset identification layer

GS1 reports that barcodes identify over 1 billion products worldwide and are scanned more than 10 billion times a day, 50 years after the first scan. QR codes and RFID are being added alongside barcodes rather than replacing them.

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45%

Facilities still running on spreadsheets and paper

Asked what they use to monitor or manage maintenance, 45% of surveyed facilities named in-house spreadsheets and schedules and 39% named clipboards and paper records, against 58% using a CMMS. Sample was 199 manufacturing facilities.

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72%

Maintenance teams using mobile devices for work orders

A Plant Engineering survey found that 72% of maintenance teams now use mobile devices (smartphones or tablets) to receive, update, or close work orders, up from 38% in 2018.

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56.8%

Most North American commercial vehicles now carry telematics

Fleet management systems reached 56.8% of non-privately owned vehicles in commercial use in North America in 2024, forecast to reach 84.7% by 2029.

Berg Insight, Fleet Management in North America, 15th Edition. The denominator is the total population of non-privately owned vehicles in commercial use, not operators, so it describes vehicle coverage rather than the share of businesses using tracking. Europe runs well behind North America on the same measure.

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78%

Maintenance teams consider mobile CMMS access a must-have

78% of maintenance teams now consider mobile CMMS access a must-have rather than a nice-to-have, up from 45% in 2020. The shift has been driven by remote workforce growth, rising real-time data expectations, and the need for technicians to access work orders, asset history, and parts information directly from the field.

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15.2% CAGR

Asia-Pacific asset tracking market growth rate

The Asia-Pacific asset tracking market is growing at 15.2% CAGR, outpacing the global average of 13.4%. Rapid infrastructure investment and regulatory modernisation in Australia, India, and Southeast Asia are the primary drivers, as governments mandate stricter equipment compliance and operators seek digital visibility across expanding fleets.

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58%

Warehouse leaders planning to deploy RFID asset tracking by 2028

A Zebra Technologies study found that 58% of warehouse decision-makers plan to deploy RFID to track assets, goods and people by 2028, based on a survey of more than 1,400 warehouse leaders.

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55% / 53% / 44%

Plants managing maintenance with spreadsheets vs CMMS vs paper

In the last openly published Plant Engineering maintenance study, 55% of facilities used in-house spreadsheets and schedules to manage maintenance, 53% used a CMMS and 44% still used paper records, with respondents selecting multiple tools. Even in 2018, spreadsheets edged out dedicated systems.

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64% vs 40%

The gap between preventive maintenance intent and planned-work reality

Per a MaintainX survey of 2,234 maintenance and operations leaders (US/Canada, 2026), 64% say they run a preventive maintenance program, yet 50% of teams dedicate less than 40% of their time to planned work, and 79% saw unplanned downtime stay the same or increase year on year.

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