The NRX Blog
NRX AssetHub Remembers Chicken Little
In case you’re not familiar with the story, Chicken Little was hit on the head with an acorn while she was walking in the woods one day. She deduced that the sky was falling, and set out to tell the king. On the way, she and several other barnyard creatures were led...
Come Hang Out with NRX AssetHub
If you haven’t figured it out already, that’s me in the jailhouse jumpsuit, entertaining some SAP consultants, hanging over the edge of the famed CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, 1168 feet (356 m) above the concrete below. Other than paddling through the Florida...
Drowning in Spreadsheets? You need magic!
We spend a lot of time helping customers track data for their asset intensive businesses. Their industries range from Energy, Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Construction, Mining - you name it. One thing our customers all share: some, if not all, of their asset data is...
What Good are KPIs when Your Data is DOA?
You do everything right. You measure everything. You track everything: Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Between Fail (MTBF), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Preventative Maintenance Compliance, Planned Maintenance Percentage. You name it, you measure it....
Fall in love with your EAM all over again
Here at HubHead, we spend a lot of time with customers who are managing Asset Intensive businesses in Oil & Gas, Energy, Paper, Transportation, Utilities and many other industries. Almost all of those customers have implemented some form of EAM (Enterprise Asset...
Old Shoes & Bad CMMS Data
Bad CMMS Data? What do old shoes and CMMS data have in common? They both become out of date quickly. They become worn and scuffed over time, even battered. They need attention periodically to keep functioning properly. If left alone long enough, they begin to decay....
We’re Going to ADIPEC
This year marks the 30th anniversary of ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference), and it promises to be the best conference yet. With over 1800 exhibitors and more than 70, 000 attendees, this will certainly be one of, if not the...
How NRX AssetHub is Embracing IBM Maximo
This week, we at HubHead announced the release of a new version of the NRX AssetHub platform (NRX AssetHub 6.3 SP3, as our Development team likes to call it). This release is exciting for us because it introduces numerous enhancements that make integrating NRX...
SAP Best Practices for Oil and Gas: Conference Reflections
The HubHead team and I participated in the SAP Best Practices for Oil & Gas Conference hosted by SAP during the week of September 15th. It was a great event where individuals in the industry came together to share stories and lessons learned. We had the privilege...
Mind the Gap: Asset and Maintenance Data
Chances are good that your asset and maintenance data is not quite as pristine as it could be. After all, some of it’s been around for a long time, right? The last time that data was touched was when we had that retiree come in for a few weeks to clean it up. When was...