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Understanding Your Historical Work Order Data
Every asset-intensive business is familiar with the struggles that come with improving operations reliability, reducing maintenance costs, and optimizing work efficiency. One of the ways that businesses can conduct better informed decisions about their maintenance...
The Wide World of Work Order Software Solutions
Asset-intensive businesses deal with lots of data that is complex and intertwined in their EAM or CMMS systems, and making this information more manageable through some kind of external system is very common. These solutions come in all shapes and sizes, whether they...
Ineffective Work Orders and Wasted Wrench Time
Work orders are an effective way of managing and measuring how time is spent in a plant. They play a role in prioritizing maintenance tasks, scheduling when they should happen, and estimating and documenting how long a task should take. If you work in the maintenance...
Some Common Causes of Inaccurate Work Order Data
Work orders keep different maintenance and reliability professionals on task in different ways. They hold maintenance workers accountable for tracking the progress of their work and documenting important details of the repairs carried out on important assets; they...
What’s Behind a Work Order?
For an asset-intensive business that deals with heavy equipment and machinery, routine maintenance checks and corrective repairs are a common part of an asset’s life cycle. However, these maintenance checks don’t simply happen on a whim. Requests for work can be...
The Drawbacks of a Poor Materials Cleansing Solution
The good thing about materials data cleanses is that they are flexible projects that can be big or small depending on the needs of your business or your EAM system. However, this can also be the bad thing about materials data cleanses. When working with mountains of...
Knowing Your Spare Parts Dictionary: What’s in a Name?
Having the language to describe something complicated can be very empowering. This is what makes a spare parts dictionary so useful and important. Searching for and identifying spare parts becomes much easier when you have the language to understand what you’re...
The Cost of Poor Quality Spare Parts Data
Spare parts are the foundation of many asset-intensive businesses. They can affect operations in multiple ways at every level. With this in mind, knowing what costs the spare parts in your EAM system may be creating for your business is critical to understanding how...
Managing Your Materials Cleanse
Just like your materials data, a successful cleansing project should be efficient and manageable. Investing a great deal of time and resources into a poorly executed project that does not give your organization the returns it expected would be incredibly...
Master Data Governance and Your Materials Cleanse
Sometimes, our materials data gets messy because the system that hosts it is tricky to navigate. When your EAM system, CMMS system, or other enterprise software is unwieldy, changing and improving the data within it can become a time consuming and tedious task. As we...