Back to Basics: Making Ordering Spare Parts Painless
Ordering spare parts remains one of the fundamental practices of employees at asset-intensive companies. Considering that maintenance work is heavily reliant on these parts for machine upkeep and repairs, ensuring that they are ordered correctly and efficiently is a top priority. Given its regularity, it’s no surprise that ordering spare parts can become a complicated affair, especially if your spare...
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Back to Basics: Best Practices for Maintenance Notifications
Good maintenance notifications are important for asset-intensive companies. Typically included in EAM systems such as SAP PM, they help employees to identify what parts need servicing and include important information that outlines details about the required maintenance. They are used to prioritize maintenance activities and determine the action required. What’s the Problem? Given how instrumental maintenance notifications are in...
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Back to Basics: Efficient Equipment Tag Management Systems
Asset-intensive companies use a large number of equipment tags to locate and monitor their assets. They are a means to internally organize important physical capital and are heavily relied upon by employees. Many companies struggle with implementing these identifiers effectively, largely due to lack of an efficient equipment tag management solution. The Issues There is a significant lack of...
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Back to Basics: Why simplifying BOMs is beneficial
Simplifying BOMs Asset-Intensive companies use BOMs to order parts, conduct maintenance and to ensure that machinery and operations are conducted in an efficient fashion. All too often though, they lay riddled with misinformation, incomplete lists and other errors and complications that drag down their overall effectiveness. Worse, they may be so unreliable they don’t get used at all. This...
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Watch Out for the Potholes: The Importance of Visualizing EAM Data
In a perfect world, trains run on time, the pace of traffic is fast enough to get to work on time and roads don’t have glaring potholes to avoid. In that same perfect world, we’d also like our data to be clean, organized and manageable. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch of the imagination to also have...
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Don’t get left behind: The Top 5 Issues with Legacy Systems
When companies look to improve the quality of data in their CMMS system, one of the most common issues they face is with their assets that are tied up in legacy systems. It may seem easier to find a solution that will work with these systems, but as time goes on you gradually lose more and more ability to...
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Shifting the Gears to Success: The Benefits of KPIs in your EAM data
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a crucial tool in evaluating the progress of goals set by businesses. They provide objective evidence that aids in decision making and planning for future projects. Ranging from measuring efficiency, to quality and resource utilization, the benefits of KPIs are ubiquitous and vital across all industries. While it may seem that KPIs only serve...
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One Size Does Not Fit All
Picking the right software for your company is a complicated task. This process is extremely bureaucratic due to the number of people that need to agree upon and approve of the software purchase. Often, the team that chooses or approves the software works separately from the team that uses the software. This can result in differing opinions on which...
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Fixing 10% can make 90% of the Difference
Why is it so tempting to put off doing a corporate data cleanse? Partially, the huge upfront cost. Companies would much rather spend on something that is tangible like brand new equipment, or larger facilities. Then there is the manpower required to efficiently run a company wide data cleanse. Several players need to be involved in this process to...
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Data Quality Trust Issues
Your job requires data that has been compiled by numerous different sources and so a certain amount of trust in the work of others is required. What if you find persisting errors riddled in the data that you require to do your job? Are you still able to trust any of the data, knowing that you can’t count on...
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