Repurposing Construction BOMs into Maintenance BOMs

Construction bills of materials are crucial for any project requiring assembly. However, once assembled, equipment requires regular maintenance updates to extend use. This warrants a new list of maintenance materials through a new BOM. Transitioning from construction...

Signs you should start building a BOM

Any organization trying to transition from a legacy CMMS system to a new EAM system has encountered some issues with spare parts and BOMs in the old system. Trying to identify duplicate or obsolete parts or the lack of good parts descriptions in the old EAM system,...

Improving your legacy CMMS’ BOMs

Out with the Old Maintenance BOMs are vital to an organization’s oversight on required spare parts needed to maintain equipment in your facilities. Older legacy systems possess enormous lists of spare parts that are difficult to simplify and categorize for faster...

Signs You Have Inadequate Maintenance BOMs

Last week, we discussed the benefits of building maintenance BOMs and why they need to be accurate. BOMs help workers to be able to obtain accurate parts information for an asset quickly so that they can order parts accordingly and increase wrench time. There’s no...