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How Poor Quality EAM/CMMS Data Affects Spare Parts Management
Poor quality data can be detrimental when it comes to spare parts management. Due to poor quality data, you may be unable to find proper vendor documentation or the equipment within the system altogether. Thus, it makes it extremely difficult to maintain and repair equipment when necessary if spare parts aren’t accessible.
How Poor EAM/CMMS Data Can Cause Asset Integrity Issues
Prior to loading EAM data onto a new EAM system, making sure data is of good quality is key. Otherwise, poor EAM/CMMS data can have detrimental affects on your company, including in its asset integrity. Poor data directly contributes to a shortened asset lifecycle as well as other mechanical issues within assets.
Key Steps In The Different Phases of EAM Migration Testing
The key phases of EAM migration planning include the pre-migration testing phase, the migration testing phase and the post migration testing phase. Within each of these phases there are many actions you need to take to properly test the migration, but understanding the key actions will give you a better sense of what testing may look like.
EAM Migration Planning Tips
An EAM migration requires lots of careful planning. The more planning is done the easier the process becomes. To help with planning, be sure to understand the source and target EAM, back up all of your data in case things go wrong, identify risks early on and reduce downtime as much as possible.
Importance of Optimizing Preventive Maintenance During A Migration
Optimizing your preventive maintenance data within your asset hierarchy during a migration will ultimately help your operations going forward. It can reduce downtime significantly, reduce the risk of breakdowns, enhance the wellbeing of your employees and increase customer service substantially.
Benefits of Aligning Asset Hierarchy With ISO 14224
Aligning your company’s asset hierarchy with ISO 14224 is great for optimizing it. Doing so ensures consistency throughout it and offers a wide variety of benefits such as clearer communication among different facilities within a company, being able to identify failures quickly and consistent RM data.
How Poor EAM Maintenance Master Data (MMD) Is Caused
To understand how to fix and prevent problems you need to know what causes them. The main reasons as to why poor EAM master data occurs is because companies start too late, use the wrong tools, work in silos, are unable to manage change, don’t have checks and balances and build on unstable foundations.
Why EAM Migrations Fail
EAM migrations can fail for several reasons. Understanding exactly why migrations fail can help your company in doing preventative maintenance. Lack of adequate planning and testing both play apart in migrations failing, but poor quality EAM data is one of the biggest reasons that EAM migration failure can occur.
EAM Migrations: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)
A system is only as good as the data that’s in it. Cleaning data prior to a migration is critical or else you will not be able to get the results you hope for when migrating over to a new system. Otherwise, your planning, maintenance, operations and asset integrity could all suffer.
Benefits of Fixing Master Data During an EAM Migration
Before doing an EAM Migration it’s important to make sure that its master data is fixed beforehand. An EAM migration is the best time to do this since you are transferring your data anyway. By doing so, you will be able to optimize your new EAM system.