Prometheus Group Ranked by Verdantix as Leader in Process Safety Management Software for 2023 Prometheus Group is proud to be announced as a leader in the process safety management software... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
Prometheus Group Achieves SAP® Certified Integration with SAP S/4HANA® RALEIGH, N.C. – 21 September 21, 2023 – Prometheus Group announced today that its Prometheus Group... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Digital Transformation
Prometheus Group Launches Prometheus APM, Acquires Atonix Digital RALEIGH, NC, March 28, 2023 – Prometheus Group is excited to announce the launch of the newest... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
What is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) System? If you don’t work in software sales, knowing the difference between the host of acronyms floating... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
6 Reasons Your Company May Need Master Data Governance Every asset-intensive enterprise organization relies on its master data, whether it is good or bad,... CATEGORY: Master Data
Utopia Receives SAP® EMEA S Partner Excellence Award 2023 RALEIGH, NC, February 7, 2023 – Utopia, a Prometheus Group Company today announced it received an... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
What Is an Asset in Enterprise Asset Management? Everyone most likely has a general idea of what an asset is, but not everyone knows what an asset... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Centralized or Decentralized Maintenance Scheduling: Which One Is Right for You? Scheduling is a very pivotal part of gaining maintenance efficiency. Building a schedule isn’t just... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
What's Your Maintenance Mindset? Four Best Practices Schedulers Should Follow When Creating a Maintenance Schedule In my years of experience as a scheduler (primarily using SAP), I’ve become familiar with many of... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
4 Key Reasons Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages Fail In the world of maintenance, there is probably nothing more thoroughly planned than shutdowns,... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
How to Improve Your Automotive Manufacturing Plant’s Maintenance With so many pressures on the automotive industry, the need for efficient and reliable plant... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
What You Need to Know Before Choosing Maintenance Scheduling Software There are dozens of options available when it comes to choosing maintenance software. All of them... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Undaunted: Raising the Profile of Women in Reliability and Enterprise Asset Management When it comes to women breaking into traditionally male-dominated industries, persistence is key.... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
The Differences in Permitting and Safety Lexicon by Region If you’re a global company with facilities in different countries and regions, you already know... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
8 Features to Consider in a Mobile Plant Maintenance Solution While mobility can offer a number of benefits, a challenge for plant maintenance organizations is... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
6 Ways to Reduce Equipment Maintenance Costs When you manage assets for a large company, it can feel like the weight of the world (and your... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
5 Important Standards Maintenance Professionals Should Be Aware Of Standards-based systems and processes provide distinct benefits when compared to proprietary ones,... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Master Data
The Critical Role of Maximo CMMS in Water Utilities Management Water. It is essential to life! Civilizations developed near it; empires were built on it. Cultures... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
How Asset Management Software Improves University Maintenance To the outside world, universities are these large organizations that seem to magically provide... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
4 Tips for Better Maintenance Scheduling Maintenance scheduling is a key element to the overall success of any organization. Companies that... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why You Shouldn't Calculate Return On Investment Based on Wrench Time More often than not, maintenance organizations that reach out to me have the same reasons to start... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
11 Disadvantages of a Reactive Maintenance Program In our previous blog, Reactive vs Preventive vs Predictive Maintenance, we defined Reactive... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Maintenance Scheduling Software: What Works for Your Needs? A quick Google search will show you that there are quite a few options for those seeking better... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Setting Your Maintenance Execution Team Up For Success In 4 Steps Maintenance is a key element that influences the true success of any organization. Maintenance... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Five Areas to Consider Before Switching to Predictive Maintenance Maintenance is critical for asset-intensive companies to be viable in the market. Equipment needs... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The Unique Challenges of Managing STOs Shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (popularly known as STOs) are a critical part of maintenance... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Prometheus: The #1 Fastest Growing Software Company in the Triangle At this year’s Triangle Business Journal Fast 50 Award celebration, Prometheus Group was announced... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Improve Your Capital Project Management With Prometheus PPM At Prometheus Group, we talk a lot about maintenance, which is a key aspect of ensuring that your... CATEGORY: Project & Portfolio Management
What is an STO (Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage)? When it comes to shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STOs), it is crucial that everyone is on the... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Asset Management Tools to Help You Save Money When you are running the maintenance, operations, or permitting and safety of an organization, one... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Asset Management Solutions From Prometheus Group Are on the SAP Store RALEIGH, N.C. — October 27, 2022 — Prometheus Group, Inc. today announced that five of its asset... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Five Reasons for Asset Failure (and What to Do About Them) Many maintenance organizations face similar challenges concerning asset failures, and they usually... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
6 Steps to Building an EAM Analytics Program for Maintenance and Asset Management A thorough and well-designed analytics program holds many benefits for maintenance and asset... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics
Why Companies Use Contractors For Maintenance and Capital Projects Running the maintenance department for a company is no small feat, no matter what industry you are... CATEGORY: WorkTech Contractor Management
How to Merge Two ERP Systems After a Business Acquisition When you are about to merge two companies with the same type of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)... CATEGORY: Master Data
3 Disadvantages to Using Excel to Manage Maintenance Microsoft Office is one of the most commonly used software suite solutions in the world. Multiple... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Why Adaptive Planning is Essential for Successful STOs Managing a shutdown, turnaround, or outage (STO) is a recurring initiative that spans many... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling, Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
How You Can Save Money With a Mobile EAM Solution Maintenance by its very nature is a mobile function, since equipment, facilities, and fleets tend... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
Reactive Vs. Preventive Vs. Predictive Maintenance Poor maintenance strategies can reduce an organization’s overall productive capacity. CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
Your Quick Guide to 5 Maintenance-as-a-Service (MaaS) Business Models of Predictive Maintenance Predictive maintenance is without doubt one of the major trends in enterprise maintenance. With the... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation, Asset Performance Management (APM)
3 Pitfalls to Watch Out for When Planning and Executing Your STO Every so often, asset-intensive organizations take on the massive task of assembling a team to... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
How Going Digital Makes Permitting Safer and Easier It’s the dawn of a new decade, and the people here at Prometheus Group are excited about what the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
5 Must-Have Features on Your EAM Mobile Solution Wishlist Almost every industry in the last decade has tinkered with ideas on how to avoid being left behind... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
How to Rate the Criticality of Your Equipment Rating equipment criticality is an important part of a strong preventive maintenance plan. By... CATEGORY: Tutorials, Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
Top 3 Features Every Electronic Permit-to-Work Should Have As more and more businesses look to move from paper permitting to a digital safe system of work, it... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
Five Tips for Executing a Successful Shutdown, Turnaround, or Outage In any industry, planning and scheduling shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) requires... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
What Is Enterprise Asset Management? If you have already been managing your company’s assets for years, you probably have a good idea of... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
10 Best Practices to Support Your MDM Strategy The old saying “easier said than done” applies when we discuss best practice in master data... CATEGORY: Master Data
5 Benefits of Going Mobile for Asset Intensive Organizations Many asset-intensive industries continue to lag behind other sectors in the digitalization of asset... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
3 Ways WorkTech Improves Your Contractor Relationships You’ve probably been there. You’re in the middle of a turnaround event, trying to keep track of... CATEGORY: WorkTech Contractor Management
What Is Reactive Maintenance in Asset Management You have probably heard of “reactive maintenance” before and may wonder how it fits into the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
How Permit to Work Software Supports Asset Management Best Practice Best practices in enterprise asset management are quite simply the procedures and processes that... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
What is a Capital Project in Asset Management Capital projects are widely discussed in a financial context, but not as commonly discussed in... CATEGORY: Project & Portfolio Management
Signs You Have a Master Data Problem It’s just about spring, which means it’s time to clean house. What should be on the to-do list for... CATEGORY: Master Data
Improve Your Maintenance Results With Rigorous SMPs Standard maintenance procedures (SMPs) vary highly in quality and thoroughness, even within one... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Exception Detection Improves Predictive Maintenance Exception detection, also known as anomaly detection or outlier detection, is a term used in data... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Mastering Planning and Scheduling: 9 KPIs Every Planner and Scheduler Should Be Tracking in Maximo To remain competitive, asset-intensive organizations are looking to its’ teams to provide more... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics, Planning & Scheduling
Team Prometheus Group: Lucia Prihandini This is the first in a series of posts shining a spotlight on team Prometheus Group. CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Why You Need the Ability to Schedule by Craft and Labor in 1 Screen If there’s one thing we know, it’s that scheduling can’t be done effectively in an... CATEGORY: Tutorials
The Importance of Cybersecurity and STO Management: Preventing System Failure and Reducing Costs Cybersecurity attacks are all over the news. As technology evolves, so do the threats. That is why...
Transforming Master Data Management Through a Data-as-a-Service Model It’s easily one of the most overlooked and underestimated tasks that an organization takes on but... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
The Basics about the Art and Science of Mining Maintenance Data There are many different ways to collect datasets in order to determine machine and equipment... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Why Maintenance Needs Master Data-as-a-Service What is Master Data? Master data management solutions have become a hot topic in the maintenance... CATEGORY: Master Data
Your Predictive Maintenance Capabilities will be Enhanced by Big Data Technologies In most cases, maintenance activities are based on preventive measures, which focus on regular... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Prometheus Group Launches Master Data as a Service RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
How is Scheduling Customer Appointments Like Auto Racing? NASCAR, Formula One, and other auto racing pit stops are incredibly fast. Depending on the sport,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Prometheus Group: A Year in Review As we approach the end of 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect. It’s fair to say that no one... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Prometheus Group Acquires Workforce Management Provider WorkTech RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Looking Ahead To 2021: Prometheus Group Predicts New Year Trends As 2020 comes to a close, we wanted to look into our crystal ball to see what the future holds. We... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
The Future of Maintenance Work: How Accelerated Change Affect You The future of enterprise maintenance will be all about digitization and automation: The expanded... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
The Essential Elements of Permit to Work Software in 2021: A Prometheus ePAS Overview Running operations of a plant is no small feat – especially managing something as important as... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
Is Your Team Using Excel More Than Scheduling Solution for IBM Maximo? What do you do when your current Planning and Scheduling solution lets you down? For a lot of... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Turnaround and Outage Leader Roser Consys Joins Prometheus Group At Prometheus Group, we strongly believe that integration is the way of the future. We believe that... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Get Out of Limbo and Into Productivity by Increasing the Rows Displayed in IBM Maximo Planners and Schedulers are amazing people. They work with huge data sets, sometimes full of... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Why Not Schedule in Excel? I’ve Done it This Way for the Last 10 Years Excel. It’s Old Faithful. The constant companion. It might not have all the Planning and Scheduling... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Mobile Vs Paper: Good Data Fuels Your Maintenance Engine Water in an engine can rob it of performance and cause damage if not rectified. Now let’s think of... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
How UDel’s Facilities Management Pros Leverage CMMS & Data Solutions Our Facilities and CMMS friends at the University of Delaware are passionate about learning, and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The Facilities Maintenance Game Plan for the Penn State Campus As an employee, feeling respected by peers is a critical key to morale. In any job, stress can run... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Understand And Manage Your Maintenance Tasks: Reasons To Go Visual The advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies has opened new horizons for enterprise asset... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The 7 Wastes of Enterprise Maintenance Departments Lean Manufacturing is a well-known Japanese methodology that originated within Toyota Industries... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
What are Digital Twins & How do They Shake Up Enterprise Maintenance? The era of digital transformation is upon us. With it comes a flood of maintenance-related... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
How to Assess the Value of Digital Enterprise Maintenance Investments The fourth industrial revolution unveils a host of opportunities for improving your industrial... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Break up With Worker Fatigue, Not Your ERP, EAM, or CMMS Imagine this: you have a maintenance project that is unexpectedly taking longer to complete. There... CATEGORY: WorkTech Contractor Management
If Your Maintenance Planner Can’t Do THIS, You Should Call It a Day If you’re a NASCAR driver, you’re mainly worried about speed. If you’re a professional baseball... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Maintenance Backlog: Take Control With a Priority Index The maintenance backlog is an incredibly important part of the overall maintenance process. In... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
An Ex-NASA Planning and Scheduling Professional Leverages AKWIRE Few – if any – children dream of becoming a software trainer when they grow up. But for perpetually... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How to Nail Down Your Maintenance Calendar for the New Year The beginning of a new year brings the opportunity to set goals for the year ahead. For many... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How to Change Colors of Specific Fields in IBM Maximo One of the biggest CMMS system hardships for maintenance Planners and Schedulers is screen clutter.... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Do Your Maintenance Planners/Schedulers Get Enough Time in the Field? Maybe you’ve heard this question before, or maybe you’ve seen it circulating online. Maybe someone... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The Secret to Maintenance Planning &Scheduling Isn't What You Think) Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a funny industry; not only because of the complicated,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The 5 W's (and 1 H) of Enterprise Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Shutdowns. For some, this word causes blood pressure to rise, hearts to race, and minds to spin.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Using a Planning/Scheduling Software on the Other Side of the World In today’s increasingly global world, it’s no surprise that organizations with enterprise... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Increase Uptime, Reduce Downtime & Maximize Utilization Increase Uptime, Reduce Unplanned Downtime & Maximize Resource Utilization… CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
Conditional Formatting: Does Your Planning and Scheduling Solution Speak Your Visual Lingo? For many Planners and Schedulers with whom I’ve worked over the years, adopting new technology is... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The Value of Mobile Data: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It The Value of mobile data is often underestimated. As Peter Drucker, author, consultant and one of... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
Maintenance in The Food And Beverage Industry The food and beverage sector has conditions like no other. The industry is highly regulated because... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
5 Things Every Maintenance Organization Should Be Doing While maintenance organizations differ depending on the industry, size, region, and overall... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
4 Ways Mobile EAM Technology Makes Maintenance Flexible Flexibility has gotten a lot of press recently in the business world, thanks in large part to the... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
How “Smart” Is Your Organization at Implementing New Technology? There seem to be several asset-industry trends and buzzwords floating around three specific terms... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Planning & Scheduling Features That Help You Work Faster (Part 1) Forget the partridge in the pear tree or the turtle doves. There’s one gift that stands out above... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
6 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Maintenance Backlog In North America, we are entering the season of spring. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Four Types of Analytics and What They Mean to Asset Management Everyone wants continuous improvement of their maintenance and asset management processes. It’s an... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics, Planning & Scheduling
How Using the Right IBM Maximo Tools can Slash Scheduling Time By 90% When you’re a natural born problem-solver with a passion for helping people, you don’t mind... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
6 Tips to Master It for New Planning & Scheduling Tools in IBM Maximo In the age of technology, we are constantly being asked to learn. From updates for Windows and Mac,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
12 Days of Time Savings: Planning & Scheduling Features To Work Faster As my colleague Janna wrote in the previous blog post, time is the most precious gift you can give... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Resolve Challenges Faced by Enterprise Maintenance Management Teams How robust is your maintenance scheduling process? Are your tools up to the job? Or is there room... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
How Flipping Burgers relates to Managing Asset & Location Availability Planning and Scheduling maintenance is both an art and a science. There are tons of variables at... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Maximize Your Data Management With Prometheus Dashboard Wrangling the data and information you need to get your job done is no small feat. Turning that... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The Rise of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Maintenance, or more specifically – reactive maintenance, is something that has existed since the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
7 Maintenance Initiatives That Can Improve Your Organization's Success Success is the goal of every company, but how do you ensure consistent success? Oftentimes... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Selling Maintenance Software to Your Executive Team Maintenance is a challenge. It is even more difficult when your organization is putting pressure on... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Why Permitting Must Go Digital Now Poor maintenance strategies can reduce a plant’s productive capacity by 5 to 20 percent. While the... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
The Present and Future of Predictive Maintenance and Reliability When seeking insights about new industrial maintenance concepts and technologies, it’s always... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Shining the Prometheus Spotlight on Cor Ruiten Cor Ruiten joined the team in 2017 when his previous company, Pipeline Software, was acquired by... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Bringing Together IT, Operations, and Customer Service to IBM Maximo When your passions pull you in different directions, how do you know which one to follow? As Tracy... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Develop and Improve Maintenance Strategies Using Asset Risk Analysis On the journey towards maintenance excellence, conventional wisdom places a heavy emphasis on the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance KPIs: Let Your Goals Guide Your Choices Maintenance KPIs are a reflection of your goals as an organization. Your key performance indicators... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Engica Digital Work Control Solutions is Now Part of Prometheus Group As we move into the fourth quarter of what can only be described as a productive and energetic 2019... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Prometheus Group Announces Acquisition of SAP Partner, Utopia Global, Inc. RALEIGH, NC, October 16, 2020 – Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
4 Ways Reliability Can Benefit Your Enterprise Maintenance Workforce When we think of reliability, our attentions are often focused on the long-term cost savings and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Performance Management (APM)
6 Efficiency Tips From Leading Reliability and Maintenance Experts From Utilities to Oil & Gas, Government to Manufacturing to Higher Education, Reliability and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Top 9 Tactics to Manage Scope Creep in Your STO Scope creep. Two simple words that project managers in every industry have learned to dread. Every... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Do You Use the Best Software Integration Solution for Your ERP/CMMS? The development of a more flexible, functional, and modern solution has made integration software a... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
A Busy Career Fair Season for Team Prometheus Group Our team spent a portion of the summer and fall bringing the red heat to local colleges in North... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Asset Management Strategy Relies On Integrated Maintenance Decision-makers are more likely to make the best choices when they have as much information as... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Tips to Thrive in the Era of Accelerated Change & Maintenance We are now in what is referred to as the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). With the rise... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Prometheus Group Announces Acquisition of VIZIYA From Quarterhill Inc. RALEIGH, N.C., May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Planning & Scheduling
What Should You Do if Your IBM Maximo Consultant Makes You Cry? During a recent AKWIRE training class, I was able to listen to an interesting conversation. A... CATEGORY: Tutorials
The Must-have Checklist on Efficient Maintenance Planning & Scheduling OK, so I am an engineer. I fix what’s broken and have always felt a personal satisfaction in being... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Well Do You Understand the Key Metrics for Reliability and Maintenance? One of the challenges of building and maintaining an effective reliability and maintenance strategy... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics, Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling should matter to your Organization Why is proper maintenance planning and scheduling such a hot topic? It cuts waste and improves the... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Are you Equipped to Face the New Realities of Planning and Scheduling? “If not now, when?” CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Prometheus Group Recognized as Fast 50 Company for 8th Year in a Row On Wednesday night, the Triangle Business Journal recognized Prometheus Group as one of the fastest... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Changing Company Culture at a Power Utility: Lessons From a Maintenance Scheduler Public speaking: for a lot of people, it’s on their list of things they’d rather not do. Ditto with... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance for Quality in the Era of Digitization In the first article of this two-part series, we examined the relationship between Quality... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Creating a Maintenance Work Priority Index: 4 Essential Steps What is a work priority index? A work priority index is a method used in maintenance and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Enterprise Maintenance Testbeds: Understand, Learn and Experiment The deployment of industrial maintenance solutions has always been very challenging, as it involves... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
IIoT In Maintenance And The Rise of Digital Twins The ongoing deployment of IoT devices is rapidly changing the world. The subset of IoT known as... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
3 Steps to Maximize The ROI on Your Software Investment Previously, we discussed how change management will always be a major consideration when purchasing... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Global Gas Company Solve their Mobility Challenges With Prometheus Global Industrial Gas Company Worked with Prometheus Group to Create a World-Class Mobility Solution CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
Quality Management 101: An Enterprise Maintenance Professional’s Guide Most – if not all – enterprises stand behind the quality of their products or services. Quality is... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Leveraging a Cloud-Based Solution to Support Your Next Shutdown, Turnaround, or Outage Who knew that at the start of 2020, work and business processes would be completely upended and... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Record Fast Time-to-Schedule Means More Time for Maximo Analysis Every week, Armando Zavala faced the same challenge: a long, repetitive process to schedule and... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Disrupt Enterprise Maintenance with Maintenance-as-a-Service (MaaS) Cloud computing has significantly penetrated all sectors of the economy. This validates one of the... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Enhance Enterprise Maintenance Prioritization WIth This Function Imagine that you’ve got an overdue PM that will eventually lead to a critical outage if left... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Who Is This Maintenance Planner Person and Why Do We Need One? Since we have discussed the details of an efficient maintenance job planning process, let’s talk... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Improve Long-Term Planning and Scheduling for IBM Maximo with AKWIRE Maintenance Planners and Schedulers in Oil and Gas, Utilities, Facilities Management and everywhere... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Increase Maintenance Efficiency & Understanding Workforce Availability When you were in school, did your teachers bombard you with the KISS principle? “Keep it simple,... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance Planning Benefits: Technician, Supervisor, Management Imagine this: you’re called into work a half hour earlier than usual for a big meeting. Since... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Maintenance Job Planning Fails and How to Prevent It On the surface, this article may seem like a bit of a downer. It’s all about why maintenance... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
5 Ways to Identify the Status of Your Industrial Assets for EAM Predictive maintenance is about collecting, integrating and processing data sets from different... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
5 Innovative Technologies Changing Maintenance Management in the Oil and Gas Sector Innovative and disruptive technologies are impacting every industry and way of life at a rapid... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Digital Transformation
Smart Machines and the Future of Enterprise Industrial Maintenance Some of the concepts we will discuss below may sound a bit futuristic, bringing to your plant floor... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Everything You Want to Know About AKWIRE IBM Maximo is not for the faint of heart. And neither is working in Maintenance Planning and... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Planning & Scheduling
The What and Why of an Efficient Maintenance Job Planning Process For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been working in the maintenance and operations field for... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Blockchain Technology and Enterprise Maintenance Activities There’s a lot of buzz these days about a new wave of secure electronic transactions, based on... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Where the Future Maintenance and Repair Operations (MRO) Jobs Are The industrial maintenance field has recently entered a new phase of growth, characterized by... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Improve Maintenance & Field Service with Wearable Technologies The introduction of wearables devices and technologies in the enterprise maintenance field provides... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
IBM Maximo Build EAR Process Slowing You Down? Here’s One Way to Fix It The IBM Maximo EAR (Enterprise Application Archive) file is an enterprise archive that can be... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How DTE Energy Saved Millions of Dollars in Time with IBM Maximo Tools Some folks close to retirement just want to ride out the time before they can hit the golf course... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
My Top 3 Recommendations for IBM Maximo Power Users IBM Maximo is a complicated and immensely powerful tool. It can take years to develop expertise to... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Maximo Dos and Don’ts: Tips to Live By From Two IBM Maximo Pros IBM Maximo is one of the most powerful (and popular) CMMS solutions out there – and for good... CATEGORY: Tutorials
The Role of Domain Knowledge in Big Data for Predictive Maintenance Industrial organizations are increasingly taking advantage of leading edge digital technologies to... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Users Getting Lost? How to Change the URL Context of the Application in IBM Maximo Awhile back, I ran into a client who had three environments co-located. It was a classic “all eggs... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Disable the Heads Down Data Entry in IBM Maximo That Wastes Your Time Progress. It’s a funny concept, because what’s an improvement for some people isn’t for others. For... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How Cornell University Stretched Their Maintenance Budget Further When one thinks of the caliber of results that are produced by a renowned research facility such as... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Root Cause Analysis Improves Your STO Events Root cause analysis is well-known as a technique for determining the true underlying cause of an... CATEGORY: Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage
Was Your Maximo Installed By Another User? How I Solved That “Issue” You may notice that this article is shorter than usual – but that’s OK. When you run into a... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How Conditional Loading Can Make Scheduling Faster & Easier Sometimes, all it takes is a fresh set of eyes to make you question long-held processes and habits.... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Top 10 Signs Your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Isn’t Working Why implement Maintenance Planning and Scheduling best practices? You’ve probably heard how... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
4 Change Management Challenges and How You Can Solve Them Implementing change in an asset-intensive organization comes with its own set of headaches. There... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
5 Things You Need to Know About Measuring Wrench Time Wrench time. It’s one of those hard to measure metrics and gets a fair bit of attention in the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
6 Maintenance Scheduling Principles to Improve Overall Workforce Efficiency If you could increase the amount of time your company’s resources, engineers, and technicians are... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
6 Maintenance Planning Principles for Success in Planning & Scheduling Based on years of experience in maintenance and operations, including the maintenance and overhaul... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
Why Drones and Robots are Taking Over Maintenance Inspections Smart devices are taking over. From drones to robot vacuums to driverless cars, we’re seeing them... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Find Columns in All Tables With This Handy SQL Script for IBM Maximo, and Other Database IBM Maximo stores massive amounts of data. Massive. In a typical out of the box set-up, you’re... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Find Columns in All Tables With This Oracle Script for IBM Maximo There’s one thing virtually every maintenance Planner or Scheduler can agree on, whether you work... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Is it May 6 or June 5? Customize How the Date is Displayed in IBM Maximo I’m sure you all remember when “The Dress” broke the internet in 2016. Was it white and gold or... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Finding a Direct Route in Your IBM Maximo Maze I’ve received some emails from readers enjoying some of my articles highlighting the adventures in... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Increasing the Number of Sessions in Maximo: One Way You Can Do it Keeping the tone of the last few short and sweet technical articles that I’ve been publishing over... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Tight Fit? How You Can Increase the Size of Maximo Dialog Boxes How many of you have run into the situation that you need to add more and more columns to a Maximo... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Maximo: How to Hide an Application Tab for Some Security Groups As we have been doing in the past few months, you’ve seen some short and sweet articles based on my... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Kill Clutter & Like What You See: Improving Data Visualization With Calculated Fields In my world, many of the challenges I’ve worked to help resolve are all rooted in the same problem:... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Rip and Replace: Do You Have Any Other Choices for Your Assets? Industrial equipment is one of the most important and expensive assets of an enterprise -- the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
What is Being Added to the Prometheus Platform in 2022 Whether you are a current user of the Prometheus Platform or are looking into using our products,...
7 Reasons You Should Not Use Paper Permitting For a long time, paper permitting was a given. It was the only option out there. And having some... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
5 Transformational Trends Reshaping Industrial Maintenance The ongoing convergence of IT (Information Technology) with OT (Operational Technology) is... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Digital Transformation
The Right Parts at the Right Time: How to Manage Your Spare Parts Successfully Do you have the right spares in stock when your equipment fails? Do you have too much of the wrong... CATEGORY: Tutorials, Planning & Scheduling
Does Your Permit Solution Have These 7 Features? Permitting, energy isolations, lock out tag out (LOTO) and risk assessments are integral elements... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
3 Permitting Tips to Get Maintenance and Operations Playing Nice It’s a tale as old as time: Maintenance points the finger at Operations, and Operations hits back... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
Critical Maintenance Lessons from 5 Major Recent Oil Industry Accidents In his book “Human Error”, James Reason put forward a model of how systems fail by describing a... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance, Project & Portfolio Management, Maintenance & Reliability, Master Data, Permitting & Safety, Planning & Scheduling, Shutdown, Turnaround, & Outage, Asset Performance Management (APM)
Daily Scheduling: How Do You Deal With Incomplete Work? In the world of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, if all work was completed as scheduled, we’d... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Integrated GIS Enhances the Permitting Process What is the single most important component of an integrated safe system of work? Some people might... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
5 Spreadsheet Myths and 7 Reasons You Should Stop Using Them Spreadsheet programs are some of the most universally abused software across the business world.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
People at Prometheus Group: Raul Murciano As Prometheus Group continues to grow its offices across the world, we take pride in the amazing... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
People at Prometheus Group: Sean McWhirter Sean McWhirter, the Sales Engineering Manager for the North America region, began working at... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
The Evolution of Master Data, Maintenance Management and More It’s no secret that 2020 brought unprecedented challenges across all industries. Most — if not... CATEGORY: Events
IPSC Gains Transparency and Reduces Errors with Prometheus WorkTech Intermountain Power Service Corporation (IPSC) is a not-for-profit corporation that provides... CATEGORY: WorkTech Contractor Management
MaximoWorld 2021: Your Behind-the-Scenes Recap After so many events had been conducted in the virtual space, being able to attend Maximo World... CATEGORY: Events
A Guide to Driving Your Maintenance Organization Right into the Ground Planning and scheduling are fundamental to the continuous improvement of your maintenance and asset... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Coal Producer Optimizes Work Order Flow with Planning & Scheduling Western Australia’s largest coal producer provides roughly four million tons of coal annually. The... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics
Separate Preventive Maintenance from Preventable Maintenance A good preventive maintenance program can save your organization significant expense. It’s just as... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling at the University of Delaware Preparedness. We’re always told it will pay off, but rarely do we get to see the fruits of our... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
7 Reasons Master Data Management Projects Fail The right master data management (MDM), when implemented correctly, can empower heavy asset users... CATEGORY: Master Data
Prometheus Group Acquires RiskPoynt Raleigh, NC, January 18, 2022 – Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Use Prometheus Professional Services For Maintenance Best Practices We here at Prometheus Group talk a lot about the software solutions that make up the Prometheus... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Top 5 Reasons to Work at Prometheus Group HQ in Raleigh or Our Global Offices Forward-thinking individuals with a strong vision for their careers are always thinking about the... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Day in the Life of the ePAS User: Prometheus Group Product Safety Walkthrough When health and safety professionals consider their options to modernize their permitting... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
Gain Control of Your Risk Management With RiskPoynt When you are responsible for the permitting and safety of a plant, your number one priority is risk... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
How to Harness Reliability-Centered Maintenance for Advanced EAM Effective enterprise asset management (EAM) hinges on your organization’s ability to identify,... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The 7 Maintenance KPIs You Really Need Analytics has the power to maximize productivity, improve maintenance performance, and provide... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics
Prometheus Group Acquires S&V Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management operations and optimization... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Master Data
Field Collection of Asset Data is Now Efficient and Affordable There’s no debate about whether accurate master data improves maintenance. However, gathering,... CATEGORY: Master Data
Everything You Need To Know To Enjoy & Learn at This Year’s Conference After a long year of mostly virtual events, Team Prometheus Group is thrilled to be safely... CATEGORY: Events
Prometheus Group Recognized as Fast 50 Company for 10th Year in a Row Last Thursday night, the Triangle Business Journal presented Prometheus Group with one of their... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
4 [MORE] Isolations and Permitting Mistakes to Stop Making Now We here at Prometheus Group recently published a webinar on four isolations and permitting mistakes... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
Cameco Finds Success with Prometheus Planning and Scheduling for SAP Cameco Corporation is the world’s largest publicly traded uranium company, with mines, mills, and... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
People at Prometheus Group: Jonathan Addison As Prometheus Group continues to grow its offices across the world, we take pride in the amazing... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
4 More Reasons Paper Is Worse than Electronic Permit to Work Software Digital permitting systems designed for enterprise asset management outperform paper systems on... CATEGORY: Permitting & Safety
Prometheus Group Acquires Ventureforth Raleigh, NC, December 1, 2021 – Prometheus Group, a leading global provider of asset management... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Prometheus Group Acquires LUCY IMS Automation, Digitalization, Visibility, and Transparency for Turnaround Events and Contractor... CATEGORY: Prometheus News, Project & Portfolio Management
Guided by the Scope: Analytics Help Maintenance Projects Succeed It’s broadly accepted that analytics can help us on our continuous improvement journey (is... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics
When Big Data is Too Big: Why Maintenance Needs a Robust Analytics Solution Some of us struggle with too little data. However, it’s often the case in enterprise asset... CATEGORY: Reporting & Analytics
People at Prometheus Group: Hannah King At Prometheus Group we aim to make lasting impacts throughout the industries we serve and develop... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
People at Prometheus Group: Stephen Taylor Since Prometheus Group was founded in 1998, we have continued to find more ways to provide for our... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
KPIs, Reports and Analytics Part 1 – Wasting Time Reporting On Time Wasted In late October, I spoke at Australia’s largest SAP EAM conference for the fourth time. Each time I... CATEGORY: Tutorials
SAP HANA, S/4HANA, UI5 and Prometheus As many of our customers running SAP are contemplating or implementing newer SAP solutions,... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
5 Key Concepts to Better Understand Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Since the industrial revolution, equipment and manufacturing processes have dramatically grown in... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Performance Management (APM)
How Close Are You to Planning Best Practices? One of the most effective ways to improve plant maintenance operations and wrench time is to... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Scheduling Tools Without SAP/ERP Integration Are Hurting Your Organization When a problem occurs or equipment breaks, the standard procedure in most companies is to create a... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
People at Prometheus Group: Derek Shickel If you frequently read our blog, you may have heard of Derek Shickel. Derek has made his mark on... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Benefits of Cloud-based Data Governance Solutions The popularity of cloud solutions for enterprise asset management functions has exploded in recent... CATEGORY: Master Data
Prometheus Group Acquires Solufy Information Technologies & DataSplice ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON BUSINESS WIRE ON 10/2/2018 - Prometheus Group, an industry leading provider... CATEGORY: Prometheus News
Are Green metrics Hiding Poor Asset Management Practice? You achieve 90% schedule compliance within your maintenance organization…Great! That means you’re... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The Benefits of Cloud Maintenance Solutions Cloud computing has penetrated all sectors of the economy, maintenance included. More maintenance... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Why Implement an ERP Connected Mobile Solution? Mobile technology has become fundamental in the modern work environment. Whether it is used to... CATEGORY: Mobile Maintenance
The Importance of Condition Based Monitoring Condition based monitoring in maintenance is focused on preventing asset failures, downtime, and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Performance Management (APM)
Want a 24-Hour Clock For IBM Maximo? Here’s How to Get It If you’re like me, you dislike working with an AM and PM format. There’s just too much of a risk of... CATEGORY: Tutorials
6 Keys to Creating New Maintenance Budgets The task of creating maintenance budgets is both exciting and challenging. On one hand, there’s the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
How Do They Do That?! Using Custom Calculated Fields to Work Smarter Custom calculated fields are one of the most powerful tools that you can have at your disposal when... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Why It’s a Bad Idea to Let Technicians Pick Unscheduled Work Orders Everyone likes to have autonomy and choice as part of their work day. It’s human nature, I think.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Long Does it Take YOU to Update 200+ Job Plans in IBM Maximo? Imagine you’re at a retirement party for John, who’s been the supervisor of your organization’s... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Doing It Right: 2 Generations & 80 Years in Utilities and Maintenance Just like no two snowflakes are alike, the same can be said for each person’s career path. Some... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
What is a Maintenance Backlog and How to Tame the Backlog Beast As a Maintenance Planner or Maintenance Scheduler, do you sometimes feel like there are more fires... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
5 Reasons to Integrate Your EAM and Predictive Maintenance Strategies In recent years, predictive maintenance strategies has been widely discussed among asset intensive... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Hurdles of This West Coast Airport As a major travel hub in the Pacific Northwest, this West Coast airport sees 40+ million passengers... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Digitalization of Asset Management [What Does That Even Mean?] You’ve heard of digitization and digital transformation, but what the heck is digitalization?... CATEGORY: Digital Transformation
Filter Better: No Child (or Task) Maximo Work Order Left Behind Because Planners and Schedulers deal with such large quantities of data, it’s important for them to... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Understand the “Why?” in Maximo for Continuous Process Improvement I think everyone would agree schedule compliance and PM compliance are important to measure. After... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling