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
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... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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
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
The Critical Role of Maximo CMMS in Water Utilities Management at Kansas City BPU Nearman Water Water. It is essential to life! Civilizations developed near it; empires were built on it.... 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
Why You Should Not Calculate A 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
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
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
What It Takes to Be an Enterprise Maintenance Professional in the Industry 4.0 Era Industry 4.0 is already providing numerous employment opportunities in several application domains,... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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
Reactive Vs. Preventive Vs. Predictive Maintenance Poor maintenance strategies can reduce an organization’s overall productive capacity. CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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
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 Exception Detection Improves Predictive Maintenance Exception detection, also known as anomaly detection or outlier detection, is a term used in data... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
50 First Dates: (One of) the Most “Creative” Maximo Requests I’ve Ever Dealt With I think if you give someone enough time in their field – whether they’re a chef, a mechanic, or a... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Working Smarter with Maximo: 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 a Quantitative Impact on 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
Understanding And Managing 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
How to Assess the Business Value of Your Digital Enterprise Maintenance Investments The fourth industrial revolution unveils a host of opportunities for improving your industrial... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Maintenance Backlog: Take Control With a Priority Index What is the Maintenance Backlog? The maintenance backlog is an incredibly important part of the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Increase Uptime, Reduce Downtime & Maximize Utilization Increase Uptime, Reduce Unplanned Downtime & Maximize Resource Utilization… CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
The Customer-Centric Approach to Resolve the 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
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
Talking Careers & Advice With the CMMS & Facilities Information Services Pros at the University of Delaware One of the greatest advantages of working in facilities management in higher education is this: you... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
The Present and Future of Predictive Maintenance and Reliability: A Practitioner’s Perspective When seeking insights about new industrial maintenance concepts and technologies, it’s always... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
3 Trends Currently Dominating the Maintenance Industry We thought we would take a minute to review some of the biggest topics in the maintenance industry. CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Bringing Together IT, Operations, and Customer Service to the World of IBM Maximo When your passions pull you in different directions, how do you know which one to follow? As Tracy... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Using Asset Risk Analysis to Develop and Continuously Improve Your Maintenance Strategy 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
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
6 Valuable Efficiency Tips From Leading Reliability and Maintenance Experts From Utilities to Oil & Gas, Government to Manufacturing to Higher Education, Reliability and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
Driving Community Centered Innovation in Enterprise Asset Management A connection to the community has always been important for Pam Denny. From her work life to her... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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: Maintenance & Reliability
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
Quality Management 101: Maintenance for Quality in the Era of Digitization (Part 2) In the first article of this two-part series, we examined the relationship between Quality... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Creating a 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
Cloud-Based Maintenance Software Improves The Entire Workflow Cloud-based maintenance software has truly come of age. This is due in part to increases in the... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Quality Management 101: An Enterprise Maintenance Professional’s Guide (Part 1) Most – if not all – enterprises stand behind the quality of their products or services. Quality is... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Can you Increase Maintenance Efficiency without Understanding Workforce Availability? When you were in school, did your teachers bombard you with the KISS principle? “Keep it simple,... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
5 Ways to Identify the Status of Your Industrial Assets for Enterprise Maintenance Management Predictive maintenance is about collecting, integrating and processing data sets from different... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Big Data Analytics for Predictive Maintenance: The Role of Domain Knowledge Industrial organizations are increasingly taking advantage of leading edge digital technologies to... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
My Funniest IBM Maximo Memories We decided to reflect back on our careers with IBM Maximo and the great moments we’ve shared. As... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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: Maintenance & Reliability
Separate Preventive Maintenance from Preventable Maintenance A good preventive maintenance program can save your organization significant expense. It’s just as... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
Establish Maintenance Best Practices with Prometheus Professional Services We here at Prometheus Group talk a lot about the software solutions that make up the Prometheus... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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
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
The Importance of Condition Based Monitoring Condition based monitoring in maintenance is focused on preventing asset failures, downtime, and... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
5 Reasons to Integrate Your Enterprise Asset Management and Predictive Maintenance Strategies In recent years, predictive maintenance strategies has been widely discussed among asset intensive... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability