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Asset data from a new perspective
Excel. You may use it, you may not. It is relatively easy, convenient, and cost-effective from the start. However, as your business and assets grow you will quickly leave those benefits behind. Continuing with Excel to manage your growing business will cost you more...
Please, Not Another Software Application
How many different software applications do you have to open in order to do your job? Are you frustrated with a crowded laptop? A slow interface from all the programs that are running in the background? When people invest in an EAM system that isn’t efficient they err...
Big data and what to do with it.
Big data. It is not a new term but you may have heard it a lot lately. What is it, and more importantly what should you be doing with it, is our topic for today. The amount of data that is being created and stored on a global level is almost inconceivable, and it just...
Improve your ROI when you’ve hit the wall.
You may have heard the term ‘hitting the wall’ stemming from the running community, which is the equivalent to bonking for cycling. It’s a feeling of sudden fatigue and loss of energy, usually caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in your body and it doesn’t feel...
Building Your Business Case for IIOT
Living in a connected world is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Each day there is an increasing number of connected items from our transportation systems to our homes to our work environment. In the IIoT there are smart factories, smart mines, and...
Smart Data Powers Smart Manufacturing
Factories today are more intelligent and efficient than ever before. Behind the scenes; planning, supply chain logistics, and operations are all playing into increasing the efficiency on a factory floor. Smart manufacturing machines are collecting information and...
The Downtime Your EAM Data Can Prevent
Downtime is inevitable in the manufacturing industry and most certainly in the auto industry. Most of the causes can be preventable but downtime occurs for a few reasons that make the whole manufacturing process come to a halt. Material issues, shortage of operators...
Can Your Data Catch Fire?
To start things off I just want to clarify the difference between data Digitization and Digitalization as they can be mistaken from one another from time to time. Data digitization is creating a digital version of physical things such as paper documents and...
Millions of Assets, One Location
How Digital Immaturity Surges Gas Prices
In the last blog, we talked about the rising cost of compliance issues. But how is an everyday consumer affected by the expensive compliance issues? According to CTV, summer 2018 fuel prices may reach a 10-year high. While the article outlines a key reason behind the...