The NRX Blog

Maintenance backlogs are a necessary part of effective planning and scheduling. They should ensure that your work is prioritized effectively and that work orders that can be carried out efficiently at the same time are grouped together. However, some companies find it challenging to understand their current work order backlog since they cannot effectively dashboard and analyze their open work orders.

Reliability is all about analyzing data and gaining better insights for future maintenance strategies. However, some companies are unable to conduct reliability analysis effectively due to unreliable or non-existent data. This is a challenge since it gives a misleading image of current operations and asset condition. Moreover, decisions aren’t made on time, which negatively impacts the overall business.

Ever wondered what preventive maintenance could do for your organization? Diving deeper into preventive maintenance analysis can help you find areas to reduce maintenance costs and ensure asset longevity.

Historical work orders contain some of the most useful information necessary for planning and scheduling tasks. Analyzing historical work orders can not only help you organize future orders, but at the same time, it can help ease scheduling by identifying data gaps and missing information.

When it comes to maintenance activities, quality underpins everything. Most organizations strive to keep costs low while maintaining high-quality orders. However, costs associated with maintenance activities such as reactive maintenance, arranging spare parts, and last-minute repairs can increase costs and damage your assets.

You manage your work order perfectly until it is time to hand it over to maintenance workers to add relevant pieces of information about the work. You later realize that key information is missing or that your work order was not closed out efficiently. Does this sound familiar?

Two critical functions in your maintenance program include planning and scheduling. Planning is like the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of maintenance activities, while scheduling is the ‘who’ and the ‘when.’ Planning usually takes place before scheduling and involves aspects such as obtaining the right spare parts, skills, etc.

A company’s maintenance strategy can tell a lot about allocating their budgets, spending maximum time, and the overall failure rate of specific equipment. But what good is this data if not analyzed and corrected in the right way?

Spare parts management is a crucial aspect of efficient asset management. However, some organizations are usually apprehensive of stocking spare parts due to their fears of overutilizing capital expenditure.

Every work order has a life cycle. Understanding each phase and assigning appropriate tasks within the process ensures that there are no backlogs and delays. There are a few key elements that should ideally be included in maintenance work orders to yield maximum results.