September 14, 2011 

 

 


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Understanding asset failure
David Berger says implement maintenance practices to predict, prevent or react to a failure.  Share this article on   
 

Your CMMS can be a powerful tool to optimize asset performance and reliability and manage the total cost of ownership. But like any software tool, a CMMS is only as good as the data being entered and the user's skill in analyzing and acting on the information. Thus, properly managing your physical assets requires a basic understanding of how each asset and its components behave throughout the lifecycle.

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CMMS and EAM rise to the cloud
Are plant maintenance and asset management ready for software as a service (SaaS)?  Share this article on   

Because facility asset management can be complex, the heart of maintenance operations often is a computer with specialized maintenance management software such as computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software or enterprise asset management (EAM) software.

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Setting the standard for IT best practices
How can the Information Technology Infrastructure Library improve industrial service organizations?  Share this article on    

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a de facto standard for IT services. ITIL was developed by the Office of Government Commerce, a British governmental agency whose responsibility is to optimize the procurement and acquisition processes of the British public sector.

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