# Name every machine so the next shift can find it

A nickname that only one trainer understands is not an asset name. The floor needs a name that survives a handover.

The cable station “by the window” is a useful sentence for ten seconds. It is a poor name the moment someone else is looking for it.

Give every machine a short name and a code. The name is what people say. The code is what the label, the work order, and the history use. GM-214 is enough. “Cable column, strength, floor 1” can sit next to it so a new person does not have to memorise the code.

## What a good name contains

- The kind of machine, not the brand slogan.
- The zone, if two of the same kind sit on the floor.
- Nothing that changes when you repaint the wall.

Do not rename a machine because a poster moved. The history is attached to the asset, not to the view from the desk.

## When two machines look the same

Number them in the order a person walks the floor, not in the order they were delivered. Left to right, door to back wall, is a walk someone can repeat. Delivery order is a fact only the invoice knows.

Write the name on the file before the first fault arrives. A fault report that says “the broken one” is how the same job gets opened twice.

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Source: https://gymmaintain.com/blog/name-every-machine
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