The NRX Blog
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.
How Obsolete Parts Are Caused and Why They Are Problematic
Obsolete parts come about through poor demand forecasting, products that perform worse than expected, new trends in technology (etc). They can be problematic as your company can incur higher inventory costs and write-offs because of them.
Why Duplicate Parts Cause Issues
Duplicate parts can cause a variety of issues and lead to hidden costs such as increased inventory costs, purchasing costs as well as ordering costs. Learn in detail about the problems duplicates create and how you can solve them.
Tips To Create Good Quality Maintenance BOMs
If time and money is spent in to creating BOMs its important they are done right. To create good quality BOMs you must improve accuracy, consider audience and audience and use clear visuals.
Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs
Although spreadsheets are a common way of building BOMs, it may not be the wisest. Spreadsheets are extremely error prone, costly, time consuming, make it difficult to collaborate and more.
The Benefits of Spare Parts Management
The Benefits of Spare Parts Management include saving on inventory costs, improving productivity, preventing disruptions in the production process and reducing the amount of duplicate and obsolete materials within your EAM system.
Why Material Cleansing Can Help You Find Spare Parts
Material cleansing can help maintenance workers find spare parts within their company’s EAM system. Through material cleansing, workers are able to prioritize spare parts, classify them effectively, have more accurate BOMs and more.
Impacts of Poor-Quality Spare Parts Data on BoMs
If spare parts data is not up to par then finding it within BoMs is going to be a lot harder than if your EAM contains high quality spare parts data. Here are some ways that poor quality materials data that is not cleansed can create poor quality BoMs.