Signs You Have Inadequate Maintenance BOMs

Last week, we discussed the benefits of building maintenance BOMs and why they need to be accurate. BOMs help workers to be able to obtain accurate parts information for an asset quickly so that they can order parts accordingly and increase wrench time. There’s no...

Why Maintenance BOMs Need to be Accurate

Maintenance BOMs contain information about what spare parts are used to maintain different types of assets within your facilities. In order for maintenance to be done effectively though, maintenance BOMs need to be accurate. Inaccurate BOMs make the process of finding...

Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs

Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs Is your company currently using or planning to use spreadsheets to build your Bills of Materials? Many companies use excel spreadsheets when they’re starting, and it usually works out, to begin with. However, when companies...

Impacts of Poor-Quality Spare Parts Data on BoMs

Creating accurate maintenance Bills of Materials (BoMs) for your safety-critical equipment helps improve maintenance efficiency and effectiveness. High-quality BoMs can improve almost every aspect of maintenance, reduce unnecessary spare parts inventory, make the...

Why Are Accurate BoMs Important?

Maintenance Bills of Materials (BoMs) help companies keep track of the spare parts that are required to maintain a piece of equipment. Without maintenance BoMs in your EAM system, no parts are associated with your equipment. When building BoMs however, it is important...