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How To Effectively Cleanse EAM Asset and Maintenance Master Data For a Migration
Learn the step by step process on how to effectively cleanse data for a migration. The process begins with prioritizing which data needs to be cleansed or needs the most cleansing. Then, you must make sure that you have a way to measure progress through KPIs, can oversee the project and allow for collaboration, align data with corporate standards and reuse good data. Utilizing these 5 key steps can help ensure your data is ready for a migration.
Why an EAM Migration is a Good Time to Cleanse Your Asset and Maintenance Master Data
An EAM migration provides the perfect opportunity to cleanse your EAM data as your system is down regardless and it can be difficult to do after a migration. Further, cleansing data is almost necessary if you want to be able to maximize your new system and make sure that data issues from your previous system don’t transfer over.
4 Common Mistakes Made During an EAM Migration
An EAM migration is a long and grueling process. Many companies that plan to do one don’t go into it with the right expectations and planning. As a result, common mistakes such as going into a migration with poor quality data, migrating data at once, failure to establish standards within their asset hierarchy, poor testing, unwillingness to seek expert help can all occur.
How Poor Quality EAM/CMMS Data Affects Spare Parts Management
Poor quality data can be detrimental when it comes to spare parts management. Due to poor quality data, you may be unable to find proper vendor documentation or the equipment within the system altogether. Thus, it makes it extremely difficult to maintain and repair equipment when necessary if spare parts aren’t accessible.
How Poor EAM/CMMS Data Can Cause Asset Integrity Issues
Prior to loading EAM data onto a new EAM system, making sure data is of good quality is key. Otherwise, poor EAM/CMMS data can have detrimental affects on your company, including in its asset integrity. Poor data directly contributes to a shortened asset lifecycle as well as other mechanical issues within assets.
Key Steps In The Different Phases of EAM Migration Testing
The key phases of EAM migration planning include the pre-migration testing phase, the migration testing phase and the post migration testing phase. Within each of these phases there are many actions you need to take to properly test the migration, but understanding the key actions will give you a better sense of what testing may look like.
EAM Migration Planning Tips
An EAM migration requires lots of careful planning. The more planning is done the easier the process becomes. To help with planning, be sure to understand the source and target EAM, back up all of your data in case things go wrong, identify risks early on and reduce downtime as much as possible.
Importance of Optimizing Preventive Maintenance During A Migration
Optimizing your preventive maintenance data within your asset hierarchy during a migration will ultimately help your operations going forward. It can reduce downtime significantly, reduce the risk of breakdowns, enhance the wellbeing of your employees and increase customer service substantially.
Benefits of Aligning Asset Hierarchy With ISO 14224
Aligning your company’s asset hierarchy with ISO 14224 is great for optimizing it. Doing so ensures consistency throughout it and offers a wide variety of benefits such as clearer communication among different facilities within a company, being able to identify failures quickly and consistent RM data.
How Poor EAM Maintenance Master Data (MMD) Is Caused
To understand how to fix and prevent problems you need to know what causes them. The main reasons as to why poor EAM master data occurs is because companies start too late, use the wrong tools, work in silos, are unable to manage change, don’t have checks and balances and build on unstable foundations.