How to Identify Inaccuracies in your BOMs

Maintenance BOMs contain information about what spare parts are used to maintain different types of assets within your facilities. However, maintenance BOMs can only manage this information effectively with accurate data to match. Inaccurate BOMs complicate the...

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,...

What Your Spreadsheets Don’t Tell You

You have all this perfect work order data, so what do you do next? You add all that data to a spreadsheet with the hope that you’ll be able to calculate critical metrics without any errors and that you can make better-informed decisions. However, here is where the...

Unpacking your Historical Work Order Data

Your work order captures the maintenance history of a technical object. It is usually evaluated overtime to follow and understand key factors such as maintenance costs, frequency of preventive maintenance, labor hours, etc. However, when historical work order data is...

Making Use of that Historical Work Order Data

What happens when your historical work order data is all over the place? It can lead to inconsistencies in operations and maintenance due to your organization’s different parts using other codes and procedures to complete work orders. Overall, this does not...