EAM CMMS IMPLEMENTATION blog posts

How stable is your CMMS software vendor? How are they surviving the one of the worst economic recessions in our lifetimes? When selecting your CMMS software provider, it is critical that they be around long enough to support their product through the years to come. CMMS software is the heart of better maintenance management organizations. [...]

One of my alma mater’s recently announced a special seminar to learn how to become a Six Sigma Green Belt. Although Six Sigma may not be for everyone’s business, the underlying principles are crucial to better asset and maintenance management. The Premise of Six Sigma Methodology In essence, Six Sigma is a methodology originally designed [...]

The Fall is a great time to revisit your asset management objectives in order to evaluate your successes. A review of the years activity, will indicate areas that need to be improved such as the ratio of reactive to proactive maintenance or the level of utilization of your asset management system. Getting better results is [...]

The final of three posts highlighting the causes of failed asset management system software implementations and what can be done to increase the chances for success. The first post suggested that not setting proper customer expectations before an implementation begins is the root cause of failure. The second post looked at some of the critical [...]

In our prior post, Why Asset Management System Implementations Fail – Part I, we described the roles of the key players for implementing asset management system software. Each party brings a different skill set to the table which great facilitators strive to recognize. These skill sets are used to provide the expertise and buy-in from [...]