The UtilityRadar field guide
Utility Infrastructure Guides and Explainers
In depth guides, technology explainers, and data analyses for water, wastewater, power, renewables, and utility infrastructure.
SAP PM vs Standalone CMMS for Utilities
When SAP Plant Maintenance makes sense versus a dedicated CMMS at a utility. Integration tradeoffs and hybrid approaches.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM): Complete Guide
What EAM is, how it differs from CMMS, when a utility needs it, and how to structure the implementation.
Free and Open-Source CMMS Options Reviewed
CMMS platforms that are free, freemium, or open source. What they offer, where they fit, and where they fall short for utility use.
The Best CMMS Software in 2026: Honest Comparison
A candid comparison of the leading CMMS platforms for utilities: Fiix, Limble, Maintainx, IBM Maximo, and specialist water utility platforms.
CMMS Pricing: What Vendors Charge (Real Numbers)
What CMMS platforms actually cost. Per user pricing, per asset pricing, implementation fees, and hidden costs. Real ranges from real deployments.
What is a CMMS and why it matters for water utilities
A CMMS centralises maintenance work at water and wastewater utilities. Learn what it does, when to adopt one, ROI benchmarks, and a 90 day pilot approach.
CMMS effectiveness: ROI metrics from real wastewater plants
Five buckets: downtime, MTBF and MTTR, parts spend, overtime, audit time. Year one payback of 3 to 8 times licence cost at a typical utility.
CMMS vs EAM: which one does a water utility actually need?
CMMS focuses on maintenance work; EAM covers the asset lifecycle from procurement to disposal. When to stay CMMS, when to graduate to EAM.
Implementing CMMS in a wastewater plant: a 90-day playbook
The 90 day rollout that actually works at a wastewater plant. Three phases with clear gates. Skip the steps and you are still onboarding at month 18.
From reading to data
Every article references real plants. See their data.
Locations, capacity, operators, and permits for 177,000+ utility infrastructure sites across 24 sectors: the same records our writers pull from.