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Maintenance Productivity – Working Hard or Hardly Working?
So much to do, so little time. Maintenance professionals often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. Between repairs, paperwork, and routine maintenance, these employees are often overworked with huge inefficiencies in what they do and when they do it. The...
Never Cleanse Data Again
“Remember the good old days,” is not something that you want to hear in company meetings. It shows that your company has been taking steps backward in terms of quality and efficiency instead of maintaining standards or improving. If you follow our blog, then last week...
Heatwaves and Purging Dirty Data
This week in Canada, we hit a record high temperature for March 1st, 2017. This heat wave has started to get people into spring cleaning mode. Purging is so satisfying because you can get rid of the old, and make way for the new. If you find that you are struggling...
Trend Alert: Don’t Get Left In The Dark When It Comes To Cloud Technology
Cloud technology is a phenomenon that is taking the world by storm. While it is quickly transforming some industries, others are being left in the dark ages. This is a bandwagon that you should definitely get on, but first, you need to know what the cloud is. If you...
Leaders in Innovation
Now more than ever, companies are pushing the boundaries of science and technology with innovation. Our planet is no longer an abundance of resources, and companies are using creative methods to provide for the world’s demands. Markets have a high demand for solutions...
How your CMMS and EAM Systems can Improve Return on Assets
Your company has heavily invested in its assets and your goal is to see these assets work effectively by generating revenue and cycling money back into the business. Calculating the return on assets can help you to benchmark your company’s profitability. This ratio of...
What Can You Learn from Well-Organized Data?
We have all heard the saying “build your house on a strong foundation,” and the same can be said about your company. The master data you collect will build either a strong or a weak foundation for your business. Accurate and complete data can be used as a tool to...
5 More New Year’s Resolutions You Should Have for Improving your Data Quality in 2017
Improving data quality is a cumbersome but important project that should be broken down into several prioritized steps. If your company has indicated that data quality is a cause of inefficiency to optimizing planning, maintenance, operations and engineering, then you...
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Improving your Data Quality
Where are you now? Where do you want to be? Many companies at this time of year are asking themselves these game-changing questions. It is important to strategize and figure out how your business could perform better to reach your maintenance and reliability goals....
5 Secrets to Destroying Information Silos
In asset-intensive organizations, communication breakdowns between engineering and operations teams are extremely common, yet is an issue that will continue to persist if the right resources are not implemented. These breakdowns, also known as information silos, occur...