Equipment Breakdown & Maintenance Manager for Sites

A breakdown reported over WhatsApp or mentioned in passing at the site meeting easily gets lost among everything else — meanwhile the crane, the generator, or the excavator stays down, racking up cost every hour with nobody actually adding it up.

This isn't the full fleet manager (that's covered by the Equipment Fleet Manager, which tracks usage and rental cost machine by machine); this one is for the breakdown log: the crane that stops lifting, the generator that overheats, the site cabin's panel that trips. The skill calculates accumulated downtime cost, distinguishes which breakdowns are urgent and blocking from those that can be scheduled, and flags which equipment fails most and which maintenance provider takes longest to resolve.

What it doesn't do: it doesn't replace scheduled preventive maintenance or keep a full service history for each machine — it only works with breakdowns that have already been reported. It also doesn't decide whether to buy, rent, or retire a piece of equipment; that's still a management call, though the report gives you the data to make it with confidence.

Download the skill free with your email. Copy and paste it into any conversational AI — no integration or new account required. If your site needs this tracking wired into WhatsApp, your ERP, or with automatic alerts for the site manager, at Bloqbase we build it to order — reach out at /contacto.

How to put it to work on a real project

The idea isn't to download another file and forget it in a folder. Use it with a specific case: a pending certificate, a coordination meeting, a cost overrun or a handover to the developer. Fill in the resource with real data from your project, validate the result with your own technical judgment, and keep it as an internal reference to repeat the process next time.