3 problems efficient equipment tags can help you solve
When companies have hundreds or even thousands of physical assets, it’s important to know their operating condition and where they are located. Identifying, tracking and controlling assets with efficient equipment tags is critical to a company’s bottom line. Assets are frequently out for use, undergoing repairs, sold, updated, or removed. From purchase to disposal and all the steps in...
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Accurate EAM Data and the World Cup
Today, June 14th, 2018 is the start of the 21st edition of the World Cup and I hope you’re just as excited as the HubHead team. Last time we saw a rollercoaster of events starting at the group stages, then to the host country being knocked out, all the way down to the finals. Now, where is this all going? Well,...
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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 money than investing in an effective management solution to go alongside your EAM system. Viewing...
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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 on the side of trying to fix it without involving another...
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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 keeps growing. That means...
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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 good in any way shape or form. Just as if it was...
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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 oil production. This ecosystem will produce lots of data that has the potential...
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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 relaying huge amounts of data that can be utilized to improve processes. Making use of IIoT, managers can completely integrate all information...
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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 or unscheduled maintenance from a system failure are all unplanned for. There are also the causes...
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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 photographs. Digitalization is the process of improving or transforming business operations with the use of digital...
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