How to Achieve REAL Results with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Enterprise Asset Management In today's fast-paced asset management world, maintaining peak efficiency and reliability of assets... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Digital Transformation
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 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
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, 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
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
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
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, Planning & Scheduling
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
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
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
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
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
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
Increase Uptime, Reduce Downtime & Maximize Utilization Increase Uptime, Reduce Unplanned Downtime & Maximize Resource Utilization… CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Planning & Scheduling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
5 Transformational Trends Reshaping Industrial Maintenance The ongoing convergence of IT (Information Technology) with OT (Operational Technology) is... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability, Digital Transformation
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)
Separate Preventive Maintenance from Preventable Maintenance A good preventive maintenance program can save your organization significant expense. It’s just as... CATEGORY: Maintenance & Reliability
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
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, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Performance Management (APM)
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, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Performance Management (APM)
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
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