The NRX Blog

Let’s start with the basics. What is a maintenance BoM (Bill of Material)? In an EAM System, a maintenance BoM captures spare part information for a piece of equipment. This information is used during maintenance to determine the correct spare parts to...

Hopefully you’ve all read our series of blogs on digitization, digitalization and digital transformation. I wanted to talk about our NRX Asset Visualizer digital parts book solution as a case study in the digital transformation journey. Parts books have been around a...

Helium is a necessary raw material for global industries such as medicine, aerospace and technology. It is expensive to produce, and difficult to extract from natural sources. With rising demand in industry, suppliers of helium are rationing their stock,...

Over the last two weeks, we discussed the steps leading up to digital transformation. Digitization, Digitalization and the value it brings to your business. To read those blogs, click the button below. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION is the last step, which comes...

After reading Tuesday’s blog, you should have a better understanding of what the term Digitalization means and how it differs from Digitization. If you didn’t get to read Tuesday’s blog, click the button below. Referring to the previous blog,...

DIGITIZATION and DIGITALIZATION are closely associated. They are often interchangeable but are two very different things. Digitalization is the process of leveraging digitization to improve business processes. Essentially, digitalization means using digitized...

Years ago, and sometimes still today, business processes were analog. All customer files, manuals, repair handbooks were hard copies. Digitization is the process of converting something from analog to digital form. Digitization is the first step into...

Why using an intelligent staging area to fix equipment, asset maintenance and parts book records is always the best, first step for making an EAM useful. In many asset-intensive businesses, critical asset data is missing. Equipment and asset hierarchies need changes...

Although you may hate reorganizing, it may be necessary to improve yourself or your company. Corporate reorganizations may be prompted by failures now and then, but more often they are essential elements of success. Even with advancements in technology and a focus on...