by Maria McLoughlin | Aug 18, 2020
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... by Maria McLoughlin | Aug 13, 2020
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... by Maria McLoughlin | Aug 11, 2020
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... by Maria McLoughlin | Aug 6, 2020
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... by Maria McLoughlin | Aug 4, 2020
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...