The NRX 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...

Unexpected downtime is a major issue that keeps professionals up at night and is inevitable in asset intensive industries. Unexpected downtime is becoming more frequent in organizations and causes production (and more importantly revenue) to come to a halt. How can...

The digital transformation to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires more than adopting new technologies. It requires changes to people, processes and information management. Without an effective system to manage asset information, you will not be successful in...

Preventive Maintenance can be very useful for your company to help reduce maintenance costs and repairs. Why should your company perform preventive maintenance? Legal Standards Required: It is important that you maintain and inspect your technical system regularly,...

If you have an asset-intensive business, BoMs can be very beneficial for your company. 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...

Clean data will help boost your revenue and increase earnings, as well as efficiency. “Bad” or “dirty” data can hurt your organization and will have consequences. Keeping your EAM and CMMS systems clean is important. If your data is dirty, inaccurate or incomplete, it...

When we fail, we learn. We grow and mature, achieving new understandings and perspectives on life, love, business, money, relationships, and people. We’re forced to make new connections, bridging gaps where we hadn’t connected the dots before. "Those that fail to...