Why is Preventive Maintenance Important?

Preventive Maintenance (PM) can help your company reduce the costs of maintenance and repairs. While planned, preventive maintenance may pose a small hindrance to your regular production, it is nothing compared to the impacts of unplanned downtime caused by equipment...

Excel? Great For Crunching Numbers!

MS Excel is a great tool for crunching numbers. But you shouldn’t be using it for asset management. Most of the time, standard spreadsheet formats are used as a way to load key data into operational EAM systems. Although standard spreadsheet formats are great at...

3 Reasons Why Change is Good When Managing Data Quality

When it comes to managing data quality, the consequences of remaining stagnant can be dire for your asset intensive business. Do you want the ability to control changes to your EAM/ CMMS data? Do you want an approval process to ensure the changes meet your criteria?...

The Foundation for Operational Excellence

What is an Asset Data Foundation? An Asset Data Foundation is made up of high-quality master data, including Maintenance Master Data, accurately reflecting the physical plant and its needs. This data stands as the backbone of effective Maintenance Work Management and...

Digitized Data has Evolved. Have You?

Can you imagine conducting your job without a CMMS or EAM system? Many people can – digitized data was not common until the early 2000s. Over the past two decades, there have been several enhancements to maintenance and asset management systems that have caused...