The NRX Blog
3 Steps for Asset Master Data Success
Maintenance is 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 grinds...
Making Maintenance More Visual Using Illustrated Parts Books
Maintenance personnel often require spare parts information from a parts catalogue to create maintenance plans, task lists, or bills of materials. If parts books are missing or misplaced, or stored at a different location, obtaining the correct information can be a...
Streamlining SAP Plant Maintenance
Do your maintenance workers find it difficult and tedious to enter or update data in SAP PM notifications or work orders? Do your notifications and work orders tend to be missing important data, or contain incorrect information? Would you like a way to improve the...
Data Quality Nightmares – Horror Stories from the Field as Told by a Maintenance Expert
Most asset-intensive businesses struggle to create and maintain high-quality asset and maintenance data in their CMMS or EAM systems. This problem is not unique. The biggest mistake you can make is just to forget about it and assume the problem will simply resolve...
Refining Maintenance Processes in the Oil & Gas Industry
We here at NRX spend a lot of time with customers managing asset-intensive companies in Oil & Gas, Mining, Manufacturing, Energy, Pulp & Paper, Transportation, and many other industries. Almost all of those customers have implemented some form of EAM/CMMS...
Are Your Maintenance Documents Being Managed? Or Are They Managing You?
If you’re like most asset-intensive companies, managing maintenance documents is a substantial and gruesome task. Maybe you have a cabinet of binders chock full of important engineering and maintenance documents, or a stack of books fifteen feet high. Perhaps you have...
3 More Ways to Effectively Implement or Migrate to a CMMS or EAM System
When implementing a new CMMS or EAM system, or migrating data to a different CMMS or EAM system, asset-intensive organizations face a special set of challenges. Massive amounts of data are required to properly account for the assets in the system, the parts required...
Effectively Implementing or Migrating to a CMMS or EAM System
When implementing a new CMMS or EAM system, or migrating data to a different CMMS or EAM system, asset-intensive organizations face a special set of challenges. Massive amounts of data are required to properly account for the assets in the system, the parts required...
Are you Smarter Than a Data Quality Report?
Do you know the state of your data? Is it accurate and complete? How much of it is usable and how much of it needs to be cleansed? Most of our customers don’t have a quick answer to these questions. You may understand that there are issues with your data usability,...
Excel Without Microsoft Excel
Do you want your asset-intensive business to excel? Then Microsoft Excel is not the platform you should be using to manage your asset and maintenance master data, there are better options. If you are using Excel, then you probably struggle to view the data you need...