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3 Reasons Why Change is Good When Managing Data Quality
When it comes to managing data quality, the consequences of remaining stagnant can be dire for your asset intensive business. Do you want the ability to control changes to your EAM/ CMMS data? Do you want an approval process to ensure the changes meet your criteria?...
How To Streamline Equipment Tags & Take Them To The Next Level
Is your company struggling to implement an effective process for allocating equipment tags? If so, you’re not alone. Managing huge numbers of equipment tags to identify and track assets can be overwhelming. They must be unique, informative and well organized. Although...
Bad Spreadsheet Data? Perhaps a Little Magic Can Help!
Spreadsheets are great at sums and numbers, but they are not databases. If you’re using Excel to manage your asset-intensive business, you may be struggling to view the data you need for maintenance and equipment analysis. Furthermore, you may be experiencing...
Building & Sustaining Your Asset Data Foundation
What is an Asset Data Foundation? An Asset Data Foundation is made up of high-quality master data, including Maintenance Master Data, accurately reflecting the physical plant and its needs. This data stands as the backbone of effective Maintenance Work Management and...
Turn EAM / CMMS Data Nightmares into Dreams Come True!
Although asset-intensive organizations rely heavily on data in their EAM or CMMS systems, it’s the maintenance practices that keep businesses running and profitable. Hence, when poor quality data is at the forefront, the effects are often most apparent within the...
Top 5 Reasons Why Maintenance Organizations Need to Change
Maintenance is a serious business, especially for asset-intensive companies. As an example, without stringent maintenance standards, and regulatory guidelines, the rate of industrial accidents would surely rise. Without properly functioning equipment, production...
7 Effective Steps to Implementing & Migrating Your CMMS System
When companies decide to migrate or implement a new CMMS system, there are a number of steps to follow so the process is completed effectively. Typically, maintenance and reliability professionals must address several challenges. For starters, there’s tons of data...
Maintenance Planning with Bad EAM Data?
Asset-intensive organizations rely heavily on their Engineering and Maintenance Planning teams to help facilitate large project roll-outs. These groups must capture, organize, and manage vast amounts of maintenance, engineering, and design data for the assets involved...
What Good are KPIs when Your Data is DOA
As the late Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This is a great concept, and one that is crucial to maintenance. After all, how can you continuously improve and sustain effective maintenance processes if you are unable to...
Top 3 Impacts of Poor Quality EAM Data on Maintenance and Operations
“Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.” ~ J. R. D. Tata Asset-intensive organizations rely on the data in their EAM...