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5 More New Year’s Resolutions You Should Have for Improving your Data Quality in 2017
Improving data quality is a cumbersome but important project that should be broken down into several prioritized steps. If your company has indicated that data quality is a cause of inefficiency to optimizing planning, maintenance, operations and engineering, then you...
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Improving your Data Quality
Where are you now? Where do you want to be? Many companies at this time of year are asking themselves these game-changing questions. It is important to strategize and figure out how your business could perform better to reach your maintenance and reliability goals....
5 Secrets to Destroying Information Silos
In asset-intensive organizations, communication breakdowns between engineering and operations teams are extremely common, yet is an issue that will continue to persist if the right resources are not implemented. These breakdowns, also known as information silos, occur...
Is Finding Materials In Your EAM System Causing You Nightmares?
For many asset-intensive organizations, it is a continuous challenge to select and find the correct materials in their EAM system. Whether their system has misnamed parts, no storage system for legacy parts descriptions, or their maintenance team is mired with...
Looking for a complete materials cleansing solution? Perhaps it’s time to think inside the box!
Many asset-intensive companies suffer from inaccurate and incomplete data which can take a toll on their business. Unfortunately for many organizations, communicating the value of a data cleansing solution plus justifying the financial benefits can be met with...
Need to Comply with Reliability or Performance Standards?
Are you implementing new reliability or performance standards for an existing facility, or perhaps rolling out a new facility that must comply with several standards? Whatever your maintenance and reliability initiatives involve, ensuring there is accuracy in your...
Building Better Bills of Materials
Creating accurate Bills of Materials (BOMs) for your safety-critical equipment or assets is one of the biggest steps you can take towards improving maintenance efficiency and effectiveness. Having better BOMs affects almost every aspect of maintenance, reduces spare...
Are You Managing Your Spare Parts Effectively?
Asset-intensive organizations rely heavily on effective management of spare parts to reduce costs while keeping operations running smoothly. Effective management and parts optimization includes stocking the recommended spare parts for critical assets, eliminating...
How to Run an Effective Data Cleansing Project
With the rise of international competition and market globalization, asset intensive organizations have made considerable efforts to improve efficiency and reliability while reducing operating costs. As a result, they have invested billions of dollars in ERP, EAM, and...
Overseeing a Data Build or Repair Project
Whether you are building an asset registry and supporting maintenance information for a new capital project, or preparing to fix your asset and maintenance data as part of a data overhaul, you need confirmation that the new data is accurate, complete, and relevant for...