Tips To Create Good Quality Maintenance BOMs

BOMs are used within an asset-intensive company’s EAM/CMMS systems to keep track of all of the materials needed to repair and maintain equipment. Essentially, maintenance BOMs help maintenance planners select and order the correct parts for repairs quicker and...

Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs

Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Building BOMs Is your company currently using or planning to use spreadsheets to build your Bills of Materials? Many companies use excel spreadsheets when they’re starting, and it usually works out, to begin with. However, when companies...

The Benefits of Spare Parts Management

Spare parts management is when managers ensure that the correct parts are provided to workers quickly, accurately, and efficiently. In managing spare parts, you are essentially managing risk, and many companies tend to react to that risk rather than take proactive...

Why Material Cleansing Can Help You Find Spare Parts

Data cleansing is the process by which inaccurate and irrelevant parts of a dataset are identified and removed to be replaced by more accurate and relevant information.  In Enterprise Asset Management, a materials data cleanse is not just a good idea but is very...

Impacts of Poor-Quality Spare Parts Data on BoMs

Creating accurate maintenance Bills of Materials (BoMs) for your safety-critical equipment helps improve maintenance efficiency and effectiveness. High-quality BoMs can improve almost every aspect of maintenance, reduce unnecessary spare parts inventory, make the...

Why Are Accurate BoMs Important?

Maintenance Bills of Materials (BoMs) help companies keep track of the spare parts that are required to maintain a piece of equipment. Without maintenance BoMs in your EAM system, no parts are associated with your equipment. When building BoMs however, it is important...