Back to Basics: Best Practices for Maintenance Notifications
Good maintenance notifications are important for asset-intensive companies. Typically included in EAM systems such as SAP PM, they help employees to identify what parts need servicing and include important information that outlines details about the required maintenance. They are used to prioritize maintenance activities and determine the action required. What’s the Problem? Given how instrumental maintenance notifications are in...
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Back to Basics: Efficient Equipment Tag Management Systems
Asset-intensive companies use a large number of equipment tags to locate and monitor their assets. They are a means to internally organize important physical capital and are heavily relied upon by employees. Many companies struggle with implementing these identifiers effectively, largely due to lack of an efficient equipment tag management solution. The Issues There is a significant lack of...
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Back to Basics: Why simplifying BOMs is beneficial
Simplifying BOMs Asset-Intensive companies use BOMs to order parts, conduct maintenance and to ensure that machinery and operations are conducted in an efficient fashion. All too often though, they lay riddled with misinformation, incomplete lists and other errors and complications that drag down their overall effectiveness. Worse, they may be so unreliable they don’t get used at all. This...
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Maximizing Maintenance Management Effectivity
Today most asset-intensive companies organize maintenance documents through cabinets full of binders, overflowing data in USB or hard-drives. Some might even have a Document Management System (DMS) that requires thorough searching each time you need a document. While companies still might be using these methods, there are more effective and quicker methods when it comes to maintenance management. Let’s...
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Don’t let your maintenance documents work you!
Asset-intensive companies often have a hard time finding maintenance documents in their enterprise document management systems. Integration between maintenance processes that are based on EAM/CMMS workflows and document management systems can be difficult. Many asset-intensive companies would like to integrate their EAM/CMMS system with an enterprise document management solution but don’t know how to. Here are some common issues...
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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. The Consequences of Poor Data Effective and efficient are two terms taken very seriously in an asset-intensive...
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Better Maintenance BOMs = Better Company
When Asset-Intensive companies need to order parts maintenance BOMs, usually maintenance workers have to track vendor maintenance documents or the spare parts list and manually figure out what is needed. There are endless possibilities but very few effective solutions that will save your company from all your maintenance troubles. However, time and money can be saved by simply building...
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Major issues that companies with poor maintenance BOMS face
Asset-intensive companies require maintenance BOMs to find and order spare parts that are needed to maintain assets. This will help you save money and increase wrench time by allowing your maintenance personnel can quickly locate required parts. What are some issues that companies with poor maintenance BOMs face? Difficulty of identifying correct parts to plan, schedule and complete work...
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Maintenance BOMs Will Save Your Life!
Yes! You heard us, better maintenance BOMs will save your companies’ life. But what is a bill of material exactly? Well, in an EAM system, an equipment BOM captures spare part information for a piece of equipment. This information is used during maintenance to determine the correct spare parts to replace. In an asset intensive company, not only do...
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The Mysteries of High-Quality Maintenance Data
Ever wondered how you can achieve perfect maintenance data? Data that has no flaws, that is complete, accurate and everything else that comes with having high-quality data? Asset-intensive companies strive for nothing but good quality data, but is this achievable?. When your data is inaccurate and incomplete, there are many problems that can arise. But how do you measure...
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