The NRX Blog
The Race for Digital Maturity
Industry competition is technologically advancing at a speed that is hard to keep up with, let alone surpass. Digital maturity has been used as a term to describe the “technological readiness” of an industry or business. As many traditional analog fields adapt to the...
Is your Data Trapped in Silos?
Corporate silos are a nuisance that many will face from day to day. Their creation results from many factors that only worsen as a business grows. The divide known as an information silo, refers to the way knowledge remains sequestered within an organization due to...
The Top 5 Tips to Not Break the Bank with Your Data Solution
When asset-intensive companies recognize that their data quality is not quite up to standards, their next step is to find a solution that will help them fix it. While this is a good way forward, sometimes the sheer cost will cause them to rethink their decision. This...
Run to Failure Shouldn’t be an Option: Preventive Maintenance and CMMS
Preventive Maintenance One of the leading concepts being adopted in asset-intensive companies today is the idea of preventive maintenance. With the emergence of CMMS and EAM systems designed to automate many industrial processes, preventive maintenance is now being...
When Batman met Robin: Key Outcomes from IIoT & EAM Solutions
With the ever-increasing adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in industries across the map, it comes as no surprise that these phenomena have found their way into EAM data solutions. Asset-intensive companies in particular...
Gaining Management Approval on Data Cleansing Projects
Asset-intensive companies that are on the lookout for ways to improve the functionality of their EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) or CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) often run into the same issue: employees find a solution that works for them but...
Back to Basics: Making Ordering Spare Parts Painless
Ordering spare parts remains one of the fundamental practices of employees at asset-intensive companies. Considering that maintenance work is heavily reliant on these parts for machine upkeep and repairs, ensuring that they are ordered correctly and efficiently is a...
Back to Basics: Best Practices for Maintenance Notifications
Good maintenance notifications are important for asset-intensive companies. Typically included in EAM systems such as SAP PM, they help employees to identify what parts need servicing and include important information that outlines details about the required...
Back to Basics: Efficient Equipment Tag Management Systems
Asset-intensive companies use a large number of equipment tags to locate and monitor their assets. They are a means to internally organize important physical capital and are heavily relied upon by employees. Many companies struggle with implementing these identifiers...
Back to Basics: Why simplifying BOMs is beneficial
Simplifying BOMs Asset-Intensive companies use BOMs to order parts, conduct maintenance and to ensure that machinery and operations are conducted in an efficient fashion. All too often though, they lay riddled with misinformation, incomplete lists and other errors and...