The NRX Blog
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...
Digitized Data has Evolved. Have You?
Can you imagine conducting your job without a CMMS or EAM system? Many people can - digitized data was not common until the early 2000s. Over the past two decades, there have been several enhancements to maintenance and asset management systems that have caused them...
Wrench Time is Money
Do you believe time is money? We help our customers increase wrench time by at least 25% by making it easier and faster for maintenance workers to find information. Earlier this week we introduced 3 of the most common wrench time wasters, one of the big ones being...
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...