Posts Tagged ‘CMMS’
Enterprise Spare Parts Management in a Multi-Vendor Environment
Overview Spare parts information is inherently dynamic. OEMs continuously update part numbers, release supersessions, discontinue components, introduce technical modifications, and revise documentation. For a global manufacturing organization operating hundreds of equipment platforms across multiple sites, maintaining accurate, up-to-date spare parts information in the CMMS (e.g., SAP PM) is inherently complex. Each OEM provides updates in…
Read MoreCase Study: OEM launches interactive parts viewer for Dealers
Why do OEMs need to modernize the experience of identifying and purchasing parts? Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) often make a majority of their revenue from parts sales, rather than selling the assets themselves. Due to this, highly competitive industries emerge throughout various equipment types for aftermarket part sales. This competition forces OEMs to remain competitive…
Read MoreCase Study: US Bottler launches centralized parts library with Asset Information Center (AIC)
Like many asset-intensive organizations, the largest US Bottler was hampered by siloed asset information and closed systems. Their Planners and Maintenance Technicians juggled parts information from various sources (parts books, SAP, a Document Management System, and physical tags on assets) in order to correctly identify the parts and documents required for Maintenance activities. The laborious…
Read MoreMaintenance Cookbook: The (Material) Master guide to building BOMs with old parts catalogs
A Bill of Materials (BOM) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product. [1] We love BOMs 20 years ago, Metanoia began its journey to create the best BOMs in the world, working hand-in-hand with asset-intensive businesses from many…
Read MoreOptimize Work Orders with Graphical Parts Add-on to any CMMS
What would it mean to your business if you could reduce the time it takes to add parts information into CMMS work orders by 80%? Well, for one of our clients, it means boosting productivity by over $500k in a fiscal year. Maintenance departments are familiar with the tedious process of searching and finding the…
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