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Articles: CMMS and EAM

A Vision of Enterprise Reliability

Looking Into the Future of the Industry

by Dennis Belanger


What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability?  If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream.  One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question.  I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?

“Busted” - The SAP EAM/PM Maintenance Myth

Stephen J. Thomas

There are those that believe that SAP EAM/PM is a software application that does not provide satisfactory support for the maintenance and reliability work processes that exist within the plant environment. The recent survey of over 700 maintenance managers and reliability professionals conducted by Reliabilityweb.com dispels this belief entirely! In fact 66% of the respondents actually rated SAP EAM/PM as a good to excellent tool for the execution of maintenance activities.

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.

Can a CMMS/EAM Solution Really Solve All Your Problems?

By Johnny Bofilios

After working in the CMMS/ EAM software world for almost 16 years, I recently switched to an engineering consulting firm focused on helping clients implement reliability best practices. I've developed a fresh perspective on what it takes to implement CMMS/ EAM software successfully.

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

by Michael Israel

Disclaimer: In our efforts to make readers aware of technology innovations, this Reliabilityweb.com article make extensive mention of a specfic product.  This should not be taken to imply endorsement.  The product names were used to support the informational delivery of an innovation for the maintenance and reliability community.  - Editor   

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:

Championing SAP Plant Maintenance at Your Organization

By Rajen Patel

Do you feel that in your organization SAP Plant maintenance is not being used at its full potential? Do you think you can integrate maintenance activities with other departments? SAP plant maintenance module can't work on its own. It needs to be integrated with other modules in order to get maximum benefits.

Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Enhanced Operational Efficiency

A Brief Introduction to Cloud Computing

by Jonathan Hakim

Software as a Service (SaaS), also commonly referred to as “cloud computing” or “on-demand services,” is sweeping through enterprises in just about every industry.  With SaaS, a customer licenses an application for use as a service on demand, either through a time subscription or a “pay-as-you-go” model, rather than purchase the hardware and software to run a standalone application on their own.

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.

Computer Maintenance Management System

Your computer maintenance management system (CMMS) is your maintenance management database, and like any database, if the input is bad the output will also be bad. A well-utilized and well-managed CMMS is an invaluable tool that should be in close alignment with a work management system. What does a good CMMS look like?

By Mark Brunner

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.

DP World use Dynamic Upgrader (SDU) to ensure trouble-free Maximo upgrade with no downtime

In the current economic climate any business asset must be kept operational at all times to ensure business efficiency is maximised. Whether the asset is tangible, like a crane or intangible such as a piece of software the criteria is the same - minimum downtime is required to ensure maximum ROI.

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.

Foundation for Maintenance & Reliability Excellence

By Sridhar Ramakrishnan

A robust asset management program is key to achieving operational excellence in any operating facility. This article explains the steps taken to put in place an asset management system for Suncor Energy Inc.'s new steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) facility in Alberta, Canada, before the plant is even commissioned.

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