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Six Steps to Cleansing Spare Parts Data
We’ve given you a run down of what materials data is and what it means to clean it. However, we have yet to put those two things together and give you a more holistic step-by-step guide to cleansing spare parts data. A cleansing project can take months, and knowing...
Speeding Up Your Spare Parts Search with a Materials Data Cleanse
Again and again in this blog, we’ve mentioned how clean materials data can improve spare parts searches, which saves your workers time and helps them do their jobs more efficiently. A cleanse makes your spare parts data easier to search, but how exactly can it do...
3 Signs Your Spare Parts Data Needs a Cleanse
How can you tell that bad data is bad data? When dealing with an EAM system that has a countless number of files, documents, and other entries, evaluating your spare parts data quality as a whole and recognizing the good and the bad can be tricky. If we think of poor...
The Problems with Procrastinating on a Materials Cleansing Solution
There are plenty of reasons why plant managers or other key decision-makers may struggle to get approval for a spare parts data cleanse. A materials cleansing solution may be outside of their organization’s budget. Additionally, a cleanse can be a time-consuming...
What Do We Mean When We Say Clean?
The world of tech is filled with words and phrases that may seem simple on the surface, but actually describe much more complex processes underneath. In the context of EAM and CMMS systems, there are lots of ways organizations may describe their asset and maintenance...
More Ways to Save Money with a Materials Data Cleanse
Understanding the benefits of a materials data cleanse can be tricky. After all, your organization’s spare parts data is not something physical you can hold in the palm of your hand and watch as it changes and improves. In general, data can be more obscure and...
Building BoMs with Bad Spare Parts Data
Our blog has extensively covered the topic of Bills of Materials (or BoMs), whether it be a post about building better BoMs, the effects of poor maintenance BoMs, or simplifying BoMs. As our most recent blog on the topic helpfully describes them, BoMs can be thought...
Seeing is Believing in Your Materials Data Cleanse
If you’re struggling to see the right spare parts in your EAM or CMMS system, chances are you may be struggling to see that spare part in real life as well. There can be a big difference between the materials data found on a spreadsheet and the actual physical assets...
Learning to Love your Legacy Materials Data
An asset-intensive business usually decides to carry out a materials data cleanse because something about their existing data is hindering their work. Though poor legacy materials data may be the whole reason for undertaking a cleansing project, dealing directly with...
Strategically Source Spare Parts and Spend Less with Materials Cleansing
Spare parts are some of the smallest subunits within the inventory of an EAM system. They typically fall lower in an organization’s hierarchy of assets. Yet spare parts are the foundation of an asset-intensive business’ success. If they’re not well maintained, poor...