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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...
Materials Data 101
Materials: they're everywhere! We can think of a material as a spare part used for a larger piece of equipment. In everyday life, examples could include an oil filter in a car or a pump in a laundry machine. With repeated use, these materials experience wear and tear...
Find the Facts Fast with this EAM Migration Cheat Sheet
Over the past few weeks, we’ve done our best to provide you with all the information you need to know about EAM migrations. However, there’s a lot to learn, and sometimes that information can be overwhelming. An EAM system can be complicated, and a migration can make...
Most Unusual Times: Hiring during a Pandemic
We were happy to be able to welcome 20 Waterloo co-op students onboard for the summer work term. If someone had told me that teenagers in masks would be showing up in the lobby of my building and that I would be handing them laptops, I never would have believed...