Articles: CMMS and EAM

Bring the Smart Grid Within the Four Walls of Your Operation

The electric grid, as we know it, can’t keep up. It’s increasingly unreliable, costly to maintain and deliver electricity, vulnerable to attack, and environmentally unsound.

Calibration Management and your ERP: have the best of both worlds

By Bryce Johannes, Blue Mountain Quality Systems

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

With recent pressures to improve information flow and collaboration driving consolidation of activity through ERP systems, companies have struggled with questions about what they are willing to compromise in order to achieve this harmonization. Particularly for companies in heavily regulated industries, such as those regulated by the FDA, where the compliance issues around calibration management are more sensitive, compromises in calibration management functionality have been hard to swallow.

This article will provide some insights into deciding when to integrate with a 3rd party calibration management solution and how workflow typically occurs between the two applications in an integrated solution.

Challenges in Asset Management And ways that you can deal with them

by Michael Israel

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Asset Management: An Explanation

What is asset management?

There are varied points of view, no doubt. So let's get a generally acceptable perspective from two reliable sources:

COGEP: Celebrating 20 Years Of Helping Businesses Control Management Costs

"We see the recession as an opportunity-since we're in the business of helping companies reduce costs and maintain better control of their strategic assets!" It is through these optimistic eyes that Michel Fournier, president of Cogep, sees the uncertain economic climate. What follows is an intimate interview in which one of Canada's finest businessmen goes on to outline how today's financial challenges highlight the need for cost-cutting business solutions.

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling…

 

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination

Excerpted by permission from Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Coordination by Don Nyman and Joel Levitt (Courtesy of Industrial Press)

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Creating an Asset Management Framework For Successful EAM Configuration

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Marc Yarlott, Veolia Water North America, Terry Nelson, Inspiraworks and John Clow with Oracle

Summary:

In 2003, Veolia Water North America recognized that core business objectives should be expanded to include understanding complete lifecycle costs of the equipment we operate on behalf of our clients. At the time, Veolia Water North America was providing operating services to over 300 municipal and industrial clients across North America, each with common types of equipment in similar service. With access to such a wide range of applications for similar equipment types, Veolia had the data to develop a detailed understanding of life-cycle costs, but not the organizational infrastructure to capture and manage it.

Eight Steps Promoting User Adoption of Failure and Event Codes in SAP

The purpose of this article is to outline steps promoting user adoption of failure and event codes. Alignment of these steps with an SAP implementation process can increase end user adoption, resulting in significant improvements in asset performance as well as environmental and safety benefits.

Managing Calibrations in SAP

A major SAP upgrade from SAP3.1 to SAP4.6 was implemented at Sappi South Africa between 2003 until 2004. Many of the Sappi business process were reviewed during this project and particularly in the plant maintenance area of the business.

Master Records are Not Optional - Get the Detail Work Behind You

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by E. Todd White, MRG

In the United States alone there is a $738 billion dollar potential annual benefit from improved asset reliability (calculated from Department of Commerce current-cost net stock of private fixed assets in 2003 (total $4.9 trillion)). Executive leadership at all organizational levels is beginning to see the financial opportunity, seeking to understand the hidden dollars and saying we have to have reliable equipment and processes. Traditionally executives have not been steeped in the Engineering and Maintenance processes or systems that support and drive reliability. As such, they are typically unaware of the “gaps” in such systems and struggle to understand why actionable data is not readily available to support business decisions (As is often said, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.). One major area of contention and concern is the impact that the quality and availability of the Master data records contained in the management systems has on the ability to aggregate meaningful data.

 

Maximo to the Max - Following One Organization’s Upgrade Experience

by Shelley Whitener, CMRP; Ed Williams, CMRP; Sabine Boruff and Tom Arcuri

Sandia National Labs has been using Maximo almost since its inception. Over the years we have utilized the Maximo tools that conformed nicely to our maintenance processes.

 

Optimizing SAP/PM with ‘Best Practices’

How One Company's Amarillo Plant Built an 'Asset Reliability Model' for Success.

Reliability in the Regulatory and Compliance Environment

by Steve Mislan, Charleston Water System, Charleston, SC

“Should any person cause to flow into or be cast into any of the creeks, streams or inland waters of this State any impurities that are poisonous to fish or destructive to their spawn, such person shall, upon conviction, be punished.” - South Carolina Colonial Assembly, 1671

Successful EAM Implementation & Seven Critical Pitfalls to Avoid

Jim Davis, CMRP

Each year companies spend thousands to sometimes millions of dollars on a new EAM system only to find that one to two years down the road after implementation, they have no better data than what they previously had, and, in fact, find themselves using less than twenty-five percent of the capabilities of the new software.

 

Successfully Implementing “Best Practices” and EAM

by Jim H. Davis,Director of Sales/Operations, PCA

The “Top-7“ Critical Pitfalls to Avoid

Each year companies spend “thousands to sometimes millions” of dollars on a new EAM system only to find that one to two years down the road after implementation, they have no better data than what they previously had and find themselves using less than twenty-five percent of the capabilities of the new software.

So what went wrong? Why didn’t the investment pan out as anticipated? How then could other companies avoid the same mistakes in the future?

Waiting for CMMS Success?

Quality Data Is Key to Finding Promising Results

by Tracy Smith and Clay Bush

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