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The Problems with Procrastinating on a Materials Cleansing Solution
There are plenty of reasons why plant managers or other key decision-makers may struggle to get approval for a spare parts data cleanse. A materials cleansing solution may be outside of their organization’s budget. Additionally, a cleanse can be a time-consuming...
What Do We Mean When We Say Clean?
The world of tech is filled with words and phrases that may seem simple on the surface, but actually describe much more complex processes underneath. In the context of EAM and CMMS systems, there are lots of ways organizations may describe their asset and maintenance...
More Ways to Save Money with a Materials Data Cleanse
Understanding the benefits of a materials data cleanse can be tricky. After all, your organization’s spare parts data is not something physical you can hold in the palm of your hand and watch as it changes and improves. In general, data can be more obscure and...
Building BoMs with Bad Spare Parts Data
Our blog has extensively covered the topic of Bills of Materials (or BoMs), whether it be a post about building better BoMs, the effects of poor maintenance BoMs, or simplifying BoMs. As our most recent blog on the topic helpfully describes them, BoMs can be thought...
Seeing is Believing in Your Materials Data Cleanse
If you’re struggling to see the right spare parts in your EAM or CMMS system, chances are you may be struggling to see that spare part in real life as well. There can be a big difference between the materials data found on a spreadsheet and the actual physical assets...
Learning to Love your Legacy Materials Data
An asset-intensive business usually decides to carry out a materials data cleanse because something about their existing data is hindering their work. Though poor legacy materials data may be the whole reason for undertaking a cleansing project, dealing directly with...
Strategically Source Spare Parts and Spend Less with Materials Cleansing
Spare parts are some of the smallest subunits within the inventory of an EAM system. They typically fall lower in an organization’s hierarchy of assets. Yet spare parts are the foundation of an asset-intensive business’ success. If they’re not well maintained, poor...
Automation: A New Addition to Your Materials Data Cleanse
The well-established trend of Industry 4.0 continues to govern the future of asset management and maintenance. Those who are consciously moving their business towards this framework of cloud-computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) know that the “manual” of manual...
Standardizing Your Spare Parts Data with a Materials Cleanse
Some rules are made to be broken. However, when it comes to standardizing your spare parts data, a strong set of manageable rules can uplift your EAM system. In our last post, we explored the topic of spare parts dictionaries. Spare parts dictionaries are a useful...
Knowing Your Spare Parts Dictionary from A to Z
Imagine taking every item in the room you’re sitting in as you read this and trying to develop a system to classify all of them. Should one category be furniture? Should another be office supplies? Should the items in these categories be arranged alphabetically? Or...