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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Fixing 10% can make 90% of the Difference
Why is it so tempting to put off doing a corporate data cleanse? Partially, the huge upfront cost. Companies would much rather spend on something that is tangible like brand new equipment, or larger facilities. Then there is the manpower required to efficiently run a company wide data cleanse. Several players need to be involved in this process to...
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3 Benefits of Smart Factories
Manufacturing units are becoming more and more automated, generating a huge amount of data. In this ever-growing industrial market, data plays a big role in creating incredible value for businesses. It gives companies the insight to eliminate expensive breakdowns in production processes for greater productivity in all areas. The increase in the Internet of Things (IoT) has propelled the...
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Improve Productivity and Safety with Checklists
Highly skilled, busy people forget basic, key tasks and don’t even realize it. Just think of the productivity improvement potential that any business could have. Even the best trained, most capable people cannot possibly remember everything. One simple solution is checklists. It easily eliminates any of the basic, routine, essential items that we all forget from time to time....
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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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Top 5 Reasons Why Maintenance Organizations Need to Change
Maintenance is a serious business, especially for asset-intensive companies. As an example, without stringent maintenance standards, and regulatory guidelines, the rate of industrial accidents would surely rise. Without properly functioning equipment, production grinds to a staggering halt. In large maintenance organizations, that can translate to millions of dollars in lost income. Maintenance organizations spend millions of dollars each year...
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Maintenance Planning with Bad EAM Data?
Asset-intensive organizations rely heavily on their Engineering and Maintenance Planning teams to help facilitate large project roll-outs. These groups must capture, organize, and manage vast amounts of maintenance, engineering, and design data for the assets involved in the projects. They capture data for their assets, such as operating specifications, EAM attributes, engineering documents, recommended spare parts lists, parts catalogs,...
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What Good are KPIs when Your Data is DOA
As the late Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This is a great concept, and one that is crucial to maintenance. After all, how can you continuously improve and sustain effective maintenance processes if you are unable to effectively gauge and compare performance in terms of meeting strategic and operational goals. You...
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Top 3 Impacts of Poor Quality EAM Data on Maintenance and Operations
“Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.” ~ J. R. D. Tata Asset-intensive organizations rely on the data in their EAM and CMMS systems to drive the maintenance practices that keep their business running smoothly and profitably. When...
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Refining Maintenance Processes in the Oil & Gas Industry
We here at NRX spend a lot of time with customers managing asset-intensive companies in Oil & Gas, Mining, Manufacturing, Energy, Pulp & Paper, Transportation, and many other industries. Almost all of those customers have implemented some form of EAM/CMMS system but are struggling with poor quality master data and an inefficient and/or ineffective way to track and manage...
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