The NRX Blog
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.
Why EAM Migrations Fail
EAM migrations can fail for several reasons. Understanding exactly why migrations fail can help your company in doing preventative maintenance. Lack of adequate planning and testing both play apart in migrations failing, but poor quality EAM data is one of the biggest reasons that EAM migration failure can occur.
EAM Migrations: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)
A system is only as good as the data that’s in it. Cleaning data prior to a migration is critical or else you will not be able to get the results you hope for when migrating over to a new system. Otherwise, your planning, maintenance, operations and asset integrity could all suffer.
Benefits of Fixing Master Data During an EAM Migration
Before doing an EAM Migration it’s important to make sure that its master data is fixed beforehand. An EAM migration is the best time to do this since you are transferring your data anyway. By doing so, you will be able to optimize your new EAM system.
How Obsolete Parts Are Caused and Why They Are Problematic
Obsolete parts come about through poor demand forecasting, products that perform worse than expected, new trends in technology (etc). They can be problematic as your company can incur higher inventory costs and write-offs because of them.
Why Duplicate Parts Cause Issues
Duplicate parts can cause a variety of issues and lead to hidden costs such as increased inventory costs, purchasing costs as well as ordering costs. Learn in detail about the problems duplicates create and how you can solve them.
Tips To Create Good Quality Maintenance BOMs
If time and money is spent in to creating BOMs its important they are done right. To create good quality BOMs you must improve accuracy, consider audience and audience and use clear visuals.
Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs
Although spreadsheets are a common way of building BOMs, it may not be the wisest. Spreadsheets are extremely error prone, costly, time consuming, make it difficult to collaborate and more.