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Building BoMs with Bad Spare Parts Data

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...

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Learning to Love your Legacy Materials Data

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...

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Knowing Your Spare Parts Dictionary from A to Z

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...

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Materials Data 101

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...

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Most Unusual Times: Hiring during a Pandemic

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...

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