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Simplifying Work Order Management due to COVID-19
Managing work orders is a challenging task, but with the COVID-19 restrictions, technology and automation have become important now more than ever. Some companies have faced disruption in transitioning to a remote work environment and as such, their processes fail to meet new work demands.
Poor Work Orders May Mean Poorer Maintenance Processes
Sometimes, work orders may confuse rather than clarify. Though work orders exist to help organize maintenance and track the history of an asset, poorly documented data can be a costly obstacle to optimizing your maintenance processes. Poor work orders can happen for...
Getting Your Maintenance Backlog Back on Track with Work Order Analysis
For any asset-intensive business, maintenance backlogs play a key role in determining the reliability of an equipment’s operating condition, the efficiency of an organization’s maintenance strategy, and the major areas of improvement in a plant’s maintenance...
Are Spreadsheets Stumbling Blocks for your Work Orders?
Asset-intensive businesses can record and manage their work orders in lots of ways! Some may use the old-fashioned pen and paper method, while others may use more sophisticated EAM or CMMS software. In between these two options is the spreadsheet: not as complicated...
Managing Your Maintenance Strategy with High Quality Work Orders
Whether you’re in the oil and gas industry, automotive industry, transportation industry, or another industry that requires more than the average amount of assets and equipment to operate successfully, managing your maintenance is important! If you’re reading this as...
Setting Standards for Better Work Orders
As we’ve discussed again and again on this blog, data standardization creates a consistent naming and classifying convention for your EAM or CMMS system data. The purpose of setting and enforcing standards is to create a shared understanding of the operations that are...
Understanding Your Historical Work Order Data
Every asset-intensive business is familiar with the struggles that come with improving operations reliability, reducing maintenance costs, and optimizing work efficiency. One of the ways that businesses can conduct better informed decisions about their maintenance...
The Wide World of Work Order Software Solutions
Asset-intensive businesses deal with lots of data that is complex and intertwined in their EAM or CMMS systems, and making this information more manageable through some kind of external system is very common. These solutions come in all shapes and sizes, whether they...
Ineffective Work Orders and Wasted Wrench Time
Work orders are an effective way of managing and measuring how time is spent in a plant. They play a role in prioritizing maintenance tasks, scheduling when they should happen, and estimating and documenting how long a task should take. If you work in the maintenance...
Some Common Causes of Inaccurate Work Order Data
Work orders keep different maintenance and reliability professionals on task in different ways. They hold maintenance workers accountable for tracking the progress of their work and documenting important details of the repairs carried out on important assets; they...