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Why You Need a Maintenance Bill of Materials Right NOW!
Asset-intensive companies are heavily dependent on proper spare part management to ensure seamless operations alongside cost reduction. BoMs can be extremely useful for these companies when maintaining equipment and ordering spare parts. Some of the benefits include increased accuracy with work orders, reduced downtime, decreased duplication, and much more.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
The Limitations of Online Asset Monitoring
Businesses are constantly reminded about the need to transform digitally, and are presented with opportunities to embed technology across almost every aspect of their operations.
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Buried in Your EAM system?
If you have a maintenance role at an asset-intensive organization, you are probably aware of the amount of data in your EAM system. Amidst all this data, there are almost certainly gaps and inaccuracies. Migrating to a new EAM system is an excellent opportunity to fill those gaps and correct those inaccuracies.
- Maria McLoughlin
- HubHead
What Could Go Wrong With An EAM Migration?
Your organization has finally decided to migrate to a new EAM/ CMMS system. You may think that it is a smooth process that would deliver great returns; however, a migration requires careful planning and scheduling from your side to ensure that all data is transferred accurately and that you do not encounter one of the many problems outlined below.
- Maria McLoughlin
- HubHead
Logistics Is Key to Restoring Uptime in Heavy Industries
Large scale infrastructure projects that rely on heavy machinery are sensitive to downtime. When heavy equipment needs a part replaced, every minute counts. Managing parts availability and flight schedules for a maintenance part or repair and return can be a tough logistics challenge..
- CAP Logistics
360 Asset Management Program
An appropriate asset management program would consist of four main pillars: asset life cycle, asset condition management, asset reliability, and asset performance monitoring. This article will examine the different asset management programs utilized in Abqaiq Plant...
- Sultan Alshneiber
- Saudi Aramco
The Key to Machinery Reliability
The goal of Minnkota’s PPM (planned preventative maintenance) Team is to use their technologies and resources to provide the workers with safe, reliable operating equipment and make a positive impact on their maintenance...
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.
Vibration Tracking – The Looking Glass Technique – See the Invisible
Incredible as it may seem, the vibration (or at least a large part of it) can be detected through video recording with incredible resolution. Saving a huge number of hours in studies that before were time consuming if not impossible to do...
- Dr. Thierry Erbessd
- Erbessd Instruments
What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is a tool that allows systems the ability to learn and improve automatically based upon experience. Machine learning does not need specific programming to carry out an activity. Machine learning is the development of computer programs that can access data, and through a series of algorithms use the data to learn for itself what action should be taken based on that data.
- Michael Howard, DSc
- ERBESSD-INSTRUMENTS