The NRX Blog

This blog is dedicated to the struggles almost everyone has with long text fields in their SAP PM Master Data. The dreaded place where useful data gets lost and buried in an unusable format. It’s not standardized across the company, creates a headache when migrating...

Visualization is key, just as keeping maintenance planners and technicians focused on maintenance is key. Their efficiency and productivity levels depend on having everything they need to plan and carry out a work order as effectively as possible. It is...

Maintenance costs a lot of money. Failing to maintain equipment properly costs even more. Without stringent maintenance standards and regulatory guidelines, the rate of industrial accidents is sure to rise. When equipment functions inefficiently, production grinds to...

Every year, organizations invest billions of dollars worldwide in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to meet their operational goals, yet they still come across certain challenges. Many organizations fail to ensure that the data in these systems are...

IoT is changing the way data practitioners are able to make data-driven decision-making strategies. Asset-intensive organizations cannot achieve excellence in operations unless they know where and when to pay attention. Today, asset-intensive businesses...

In the past few years, plant maintenance has become increasingly important due to business, economic and technological influences. Preventive maintenance (PM) data is incredibly complex, and many asset-intensive companies run into challenges in this area....

Find and visualize assets, equipment, and parts faster.   What is data visualization? Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. By using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps, data visualization tools provide...

Last week we looked at an oil and gas company who use SAP as their EAM/CMMS solution. This week we will look at an IBM Maximo example from the Oil & Gas industry. Preventive maintenance initiatives in Maximo are set up with the goal to keep assets...

Ever come across challenges managing Preventive Maintenance plans? EAM/CMMS systems of asset intensive companies can contain large numbers of PMs making them extremely difficult to manage.   Updating PMs to improve maintenance creates uncertainty of how to...

Maintenance technicians rely on automated work orders to plan and schedule maintenance including preventive maintenance. Some Preventive Maintenance plans (PMs) are time-based while others are condition-based. Time and cost can be reduced by switching from time-based...