Signs you should start building a BOM

Any organization trying to transition from a legacy CMMS system to a new EAM system has encountered some issues with spare parts and BOMs in the old system. Trying to identify duplicate or obsolete parts or the lack of good parts descriptions in the old EAM system,...

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...

Benefits of Building Maintenance BOMs

Maintenance BOMs are used in asset management as a list of parts that are needed in order to maintain any particular asset. Using BOMs helps your company to plan and be better prepared for when maintenance is required. Taking the time to create BOMs within your EAM...

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...