Do You Have Bad BOMs? Here’s a Few Things to Look For

So, we’ve talked extensively about what makes a great maintenance BOM for any company. What about the opposite? What do bad maintenance BOMs look like? A poor maintenance BOM will naturally incur handicaps on business productivity, leading to increased downtime,...

Why Do You Even Need Maintenance BOMs?

First and foremost, Bills of Materials (BOMs) help companies keep track of the spare materials needed to carry out maintenance requests across their operations. Without maintenance BOMs in your EAM system, your equipment won’t be efficiently linked to the spares...

Symptoms of Inaccurate BOMs

Maintenance BOMs contain information about what spare parts are used to maintain different types of assets within your facilities.  Inaccurate BOMs complicate the process for workers searching for key materials info. However, maintenance BOMs can only manage this...

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...