You can only reach your potential as a manufacturer if your equipment, vehicles, and other hard assets operate at their potential. For manufacturing asset management, the formula for success is actually pretty simple: Keep your equipment running safely at the lowest possible cost and you can keep your production running to generate the highest possible return. The formula may be simple, but executing on it isn’t. Asset management for any manufacturer is a complex undertaking. It’s part avoiding problems like unscheduled downtime caused by a sudden component failure or a safety and compliance issue that requires you to stop production. It’s part optimizing opportunities by minimizing energy consumption and efficiently managing maintenance processes to keep costs down. As a manufacturer, you have a unique set of asset management challenges.

• Eliminate unplanned equipment downtime with a preventative maintenance program.
• Optimize maintenance management processes, and stop using Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets and numerous disconnected automated solutions at the company’s different plants.
• Gain company-wide visibility of maintenance management processes.
• Unify the maintenance management of plants that are managed independently.
• Gain better control of the purchasing costs and inventory levels of spare parts.

• Improved overall plant and equipment performance by successfully implementing a preventative maintenance program that eliminated downtime and optimized task scheduling.
• Improved maintenance management productivity after successfully implementing EAM to manage multiple plants.
• Unified maintenance management processes for the company’s various plants.
• Created company-wide visibility into maintenance management processes.
• Improved control over spare parts purchasing costs.
• Streamlined inventory levels by giving maintenance department members complete visibility into spare parts inventory and allowing direct interaction with the purchasing department.