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RCM Glossary: Essential Terms for Understanding Reliability Centered Maintenance
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a powerful approach to asset management, but it comes with its own set of terminology. If you're new to RCM or looking to refresh your understanding, this glossary will help you navigate the key terms and concepts. Let's dive...
The Future of Asset Management: Trends and Technologies to Watch
Asset management has always been crucial for businesses, but in today's rapidly changing technological landscape, staying ahead requires more than just traditional practices. The convergence of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of...
The End of Unplanned Downtime: How Andromeda’s RCM Analyzer Keeps Your Operations Running Smoothly
In the fast-paced world of modern industry, unplanned downtime is more than just an inconvenience—it's a threat to your bottom line, your reputation, and even your safety. Whether you're in manufacturing, energy, transportation, or any sector reliant on complex...
Manual Work Orders Are Killing Your Productivity: A Guide to Streamlining Maintenance Processes
Picture this: a maintenance technician frantically sifts through a stack of paper work orders, trying to decipher scribbled handwriting and incomplete instructions. Meanwhile, a critical piece of equipment sits idle, awaiting repair. This chaotic scene is all too...
The 7 Pillars of RCM: Understanding the Foundation of Reliability Centered Maintenance
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a powerful approach to asset management that focuses on preserving system function rather than simply preventing equipment failures. At its core, RCM is built on seven key principles, often referred to as the "7 Pillars of...
The Hidden Costs of Downtime: Uncovering the True Impact on Your Bottom Line
In the fast-paced world of manufacturing and asset-intensive industries, downtime is more than just an inconvenience. It's a silent profit-eater, a productivity killer, and a potential threat to your company's reputation. While the immediate costs of repair and...
Key Features to Look for in EAM Software: A Comprehensive Checklist for Optimizing Your Assets
Managing your company's valuable assets is no easy feat. It requires careful planning, organization, and execution to ensure optimal performance, minimize downtime, and control costs. Unfortunately, many businesses still rely on outdated methods like spreadsheets and...
The ROI of RCM: Cost Savings and Efficiency Gains That Every Company Needs
In the world of business, the bottom line is king. Every decision, every investment, is scrutinized for its potential to maximize profits and minimize costs - all while maintaining or improving performance. This is especially true when it comes to maintenance—a...
Why Maintenance Task Analysis Matters: Preventing Costly Mistakes and Boosting Efficiency
Equipment breakdowns, unplanned downtime, and safety hazards can wreak havoc on productivity, profitability, and even your company's reputation. A robust Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) strategy acts as a shield against these threats, ensuring that your maintenance...
The Dynamic Duo: How MTA and EAM Software Work Together
Effective maintenance is critical to ensure equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and optimize productivity. Two powerful tools that can significantly enhance your maintenance strategy are Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)...
What is EAM Software and Why Your Business Needs It
In today's fast-paced business landscape, managing your company's assets efficiently is crucial for success. Whether you're in manufacturing, healthcare, energy, or any other industry that relies on physical assets, you need a solution that can help you streamline...
Skyrocketing Maintenance Costs? EAM Software Can Help You Reign Them In
Is your business feeling the pinch of escalating maintenance costs? Unexpected equipment breakdowns, delayed repairs, and spiraling expenses can quickly drain your resources and disrupt operations. If you're constantly putting out fires and struggling to keep your...
Revolutionizing Asset Management: The IoT Impact
In an era defined by technological advancements, the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a groundbreaking force that is reshaping industries across the globe. Among its many transformative applications, one that stands out is its profound impact on smart asset...
7 Essential Enterprise Asset Management Tips for Success
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, effective enterprise asset management (EAM) is crucial for organizations to remain competitive and efficient. EAM involves the systematic management of physical assets throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition to...
The Future of Asset Management and Maintenance: Embracing AI for Enhanced Efficiency and Risk Management
Introduction In the dynamic world of asset management and maintenance, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape, offering unparalleled opportunities for efficiency, cost-savings, and effective risk management. Coupled with Software as a...
ASI integrates the RLDatix’s Allocate OneView workforce optimization solution into their OptiAM® Enterprise Asset Management platform.
ASI has partnered with RLDatix to utilize their OneView (https://rb.gy/ffnzhw) softwareto provide workforce optimization functionality to its OptiAM® Enterprise Asset Management platform. RLDatix’s Allocate OneView is a web-based software as a service (SaaS) workforce...
Artificial Intelligence Prognostic Steering™ (AIPS)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now become part of our culture whether we use it on smart phone applications or digital media or purchasing products and services. We employ “apps” to assist in our decision making. Andromeda Systems Inc. (ASI) Innovative New Products...
The Story of “S” Origin of the Supportability Index
Original Design Concept by: Ron Wagner – ASI CTO David Sada - VP RM&SS Dr. Gregory Thompson – INPD Sr. Engineer Re- Engineered by: JC Leverette – ASI COO David Sada – VP RM&S Rob Willis – VP APMS Implemented by: Al Wilkerson & ASI Team Throughout its...
Predictive Maintenance 101
Predictive Maintenance (PdM), also known as condition-based maintenance, oversees the condition of equipment as it performs during regular hours of operation to identify and reduce the incidence of future failures. Not to be confused with Predictive Maintenance,...
Top things to know about reliability-centered maintenance
Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a proactive strategy used to identify the most important assets and determine how to solve problems that may occur with them. RCM works to improve the productivity of equipment and assets and reduce the cost of maintenance by...
Top 5 sources for reliability data
Reliability data drives decision-making reveals patterns and trends and prevents asset failure. Gathering this data, however, is not always easy. Here are the top five sources for reliability data. Reliability testing Reliability testing provides the most exhaustive...
5 improvements a reliability engineer can apply today
Reliability engineers are responsible for eliminating losses, managing risks, and managing asset life cycles. Here are five important things reliability engineers can do today to begin improving asset reliability. Eliminate loss with OEE Begin collecting data to...
What to know about reliability-centered maintenance
Due to the complexity of present-day manufacturing processes and equipment, companies are unable to predict when important assets are likely to wear out, and consequently, unable to replace them before they fail. This is because it’s not the entire piece of equipment...
9 ways operations supervisors can improve reliability
Often considered the backbone of an organization, operations supervisors are responsible for budget, performance evaluation, customer support, and policy implementation. With so much on their plate, here are 9 things operations supervisors can do to improve reliability.
What are the best practices for implementing reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)?
Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) enables businesses to perform their maintenance tasks safely, reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively. A great RCM program will: Preserve system function Identify failure modes that jeopardize system function Prioritize those...
How to reduce maintenance costs on capital equipment
In the hunt to reduce costs and increase profits, many management teams look to the maintenance department to reduce operational costs. Maintenance operations can be expensive especially when they’re not optimized. But, in order to optimize them, you have to spend...
What makes a strong reliability centered maintenance (RCM) program?
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) helps businesses perform their maintenance tasks in a safe, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective manner. The overall goal of an effective RCM program is to make sure that inspection and maintenance tasks help improve the safety and reliability of a company’s equipment.
How to Choose the Best CMMS Software
For years, companies have been using paper or spreadsheet systems to manage their maintenance. For many workers, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to manually enter the data needed to accurately maintain maintenance operation. This inevitably leads to the unexpected breakdown of equipment, productivity lost due to emergency repairs, scheduling oversights, and unfinished work orders.
Which enterprise asset management software is right for me?
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM): What It Is and Why It Matters Defined as the process of managing the maintenance and lifecycle of physical assets to plan and optimize their use, track maintenance activities, schedule replacement and manage disposal, EAM is integral...
What are the benefits of using enterprise asset management software?
Enterprise asset management (EAM) is the process of managing the maintenance and lifecycle of physical assets to plan and optimize their use, track maintenance activities, schedule replacement and even manage disposal. The process is essential to improving operational efficiency, minimizing risk, and reducing costs of equipment ownership.