Learning to Love your Legacy Materials Data

An asset-intensive business usually decides to carry out a materials data cleanse because something about their existing data is hindering their work. Though poor legacy materials data may be the whole reason for undertaking a cleansing project, dealing directly with...

Automation: A New Addition to Your Materials Data Cleanse

The well-established trend of Industry 4.0 continues to govern the future of asset management and maintenance. Those who are consciously moving their business towards this framework of cloud-computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) know that the “manual” of manual...

Knowing Your Spare Parts Dictionary from A to Z

Imagine taking every item in the room you’re sitting in as you read this and trying to develop a system to classify all of them. Should one category be furniture? Should another be office supplies? Should the items in these categories be arranged alphabetically? Or...

Materials Data 101

Materials: they’re everywhere! We can think of a material as a spare part used for a larger piece of equipment. In everyday life, examples could include an oil filter in a car or a pump in a laundry machine. With repeated use, these materials experience wear and...