The NRX Blog
Feeling Stuck Searching for Materials in Your EAM System?
For many asset-intensive organizations, it is an ongoing challenge to find the correct materials in their EAM system. Whether their system has misnamed parts, no storage system for legacy parts descriptions, or selecting the correct parts to plan work orders is...
Is Your Safety Critical Equipment Adhering to Performance & Reliability Standards?
Are you rolling out a new facility that must comply with several performance reliability standards? Do you have an existing facility that requires updates for these standards? Whatever your maintenance and reliability initiatives involve, ensuring there is accuracy in...
How To Keep Your Maintenance Documents In Line
When it comes to maintenance management, how do you organize maintenance documents? Do you have a cabinet full of binders crammed with important engineering and maintenance documents? Do you have a drawer overflowing with USBs, or a network drive full of PDFs? Perhaps...
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...