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Machinery and Equipment MRO
December 2018
PEOPLE MOST IMPORTANT ASSET FOR CMMS/EAM:
The importance of people’s reliability on your asset data integrity.
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ven though we are entering the era of IIoT and smart machines, the reality is that most organizations are using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) or an Enterprise Asset Management System (EAM), where more than 95 per cent of the data comes from human interaction. It is people like the system administra-
tor who configure the master data and keep it up to date; maintenance managers will add maintenance plans, asset attributes, and BoM, and even set the threshold for machine connectivity, and regular users will request service based on their observations of how the machine is performing. Planner, stock manager, and workforce complete the workflow process,
adding additional data and completing the asset historical record through planning of work orders, managing parts, and recording activity results, failure data, and meaningful closing comments. These three roles are key players in enriching the asset history and keeping up to date the existing data, based on their feedback. They are the closest to the assets and are the ones who can iden-
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BY ERIKA MAZZA