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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Are Your Maintenance Documents Being Managed? Or Are They Managing You?
If you’re like most asset-intensive companies, managing maintenance documents is a substantial and gruesome task. Maybe you have a cabinet of binders chock full of important engineering and maintenance documents, or a stack of books fifteen feet high. Perhaps you have a drawer full of USBs, or a network drive full of PDFs. Or even better, you might have...
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Wrench Time is Money
Do you believe time is money? We help our customers increase wrench time by at least 25% by making it easier and faster for maintenance workers to find information. Earlier this week we introduced 3 of the most common wrench time wasters, one of the big ones being time wasted while looking for documentation. This article will now go...
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Maintenance Productivity – Working Hard or Hardly Working?
So much to do, so little time. Maintenance professionals often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. Between repairs, paperwork, and routine maintenance, these employees are often overworked with huge inefficiencies in what they do and when they do it. The average wrench time for many industries is less than 40%, meaning that the technician spends less...
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Effectively Manage Engineering and Maintenance Documents (Without the Headaches)
If you’re an asset-intensive organization, chances are you have an overwhelming amount of maintenance documents or engineering drawings to manage for thousands (or even millions) of assets and equipment. If so, you know how difficult it is to organize and index these documents, never mind making them easily accessible for maintenance personnel. We can help. NRX AssetHub provides maintenance...
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