The NRX Blog
What’s Behind a Work Order?
For an asset-intensive business that deals with heavy equipment and machinery, routine maintenance checks and corrective repairs are a common part of an asset’s life cycle. However, these maintenance checks don’t simply happen on a whim. Requests for work can be...
The Drawbacks of a Poor Materials Cleansing Solution
The good thing about materials data cleanses is that they are flexible projects that can be big or small depending on the needs of your business or your EAM system. However, this can also be the bad thing about materials data cleanses. When working with mountains of...
Knowing Your Spare Parts Dictionary: What’s in a Name?
Having the language to describe something complicated can be very empowering. This is what makes a spare parts dictionary so useful and important. Searching for and identifying spare parts becomes much easier when you have the language to understand what you’re...
The Cost of Poor Quality Spare Parts Data
Spare parts are the foundation of many asset-intensive businesses. They can affect operations in multiple ways at every level. With this in mind, knowing what costs the spare parts in your EAM system may be creating for your business is critical to understanding how...
Managing Your Materials Cleanse
Just like your materials data, a successful cleansing project should be efficient and manageable. Investing a great deal of time and resources into a poorly executed project that does not give your organization the returns it expected would be incredibly...
Master Data Governance and Your Materials Cleanse
Sometimes, our materials data gets messy because the system that hosts it is tricky to navigate. When your EAM system, CMMS system, or other enterprise software is unwieldy, changing and improving the data within it can become a time consuming and tedious task. As we...
Keeping It Clean After Your Cleanse
If we imagine each project an organization undertakes as a story, then ideally each story finishes with a nice resolution and a happily ever after. All the loose ends are tied up with a neat little bow on top, and everything is in a better place than it was when the...
Six Steps to Cleansing Spare Parts Data
We’ve given you a run down of what materials data is and what it means to clean it. However, we have yet to put those two things together and give you a more holistic step-by-step guide to cleansing spare parts data. A cleansing project can take months, and knowing...
Speeding Up Your Spare Parts Search with a Materials Data Cleanse
Again and again in this blog, we’ve mentioned how clean materials data can improve spare parts searches, which saves your workers time and helps them do their jobs more efficiently. A cleanse makes your spare parts data easier to search, but how exactly can it do...
3 Signs Your Spare Parts Data Needs a Cleanse
How can you tell that bad data is bad data? When dealing with an EAM system that has a countless number of files, documents, and other entries, evaluating your spare parts data quality as a whole and recognizing the good and the bad can be tricky. If we think of poor...