What Information Should You Store in Your EAM?

EAM systems allow asset-intensive companies to accurately keep track of equipment, work orders, maintenance plans, and purchases. Despite the benefits, utilizing EAM systems to their full potential can be a daunting task. Knowing what data to include is essential and...

Asset data from a new perspective

Excel. You may use it, you may not. It is relatively easy, convenient, and cost-effective from the start. However, as your business and assets grow you will quickly leave those benefits behind. Continuing with Excel to manage your growing business will cost you more...

Can Your Data Catch Fire?

To start things off I just want to clarify the difference between data Digitization and Digitalization as they can be mistaken from one another from time to time. Data digitization is creating a digital version of physical things such as paper documents and...

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...

Poor Data: Stop The Virus

Many asset-intensive organizations depend on the data in their EAM or CMMS systems to drive the maintenance practices that keep their business running efficiently. When you have poor data quality that is incomplete and inaccurate it affects your company as a whole....