Author: Conrad Greer
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Does your asset intensive company grow by acquisition?
Standardize your MRO Material Identities to improve effectiveness. Inherent to a growth by acquisition strategy is betting that you run operations and maintenance more effectively than the acquired assets were run. Superior O&M performance shows up in financial results. Often acting as a counterweight to your superior processes and execution is the compounding effect of…
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Unique Structured MRO Material Identities Needed for MRO Digital Transformation
If you want to move beyond buzzy business trends to the nuts and bolts of actual business improvement, then human understandable material master identities (descriptions, MPNs, specs) are necessary for real progress. For asset intensive industries including energy, pipelines, utilities and mining; digital transformation of the maintenance and supply chain business processes usually features improved…
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Has your Company applied an Identity Standard to its MRO material masters?
Your Maintenance Planners, Requisitioners, Buyers, Logisticians and Maintainers all interact with material masters to get their jobs done. If the identities of materials are not clear, your business slows, mistakes are made, business value is lost. MRO material master identities are the descriptions, manufacturer and vendor part numbers, and key specifications of your MRO materials.…
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MRO parts and Enterprise Asset Mangement
The right time to identify the parts and materials needed to support an asset is during its design and build project. Particularly if you have maintenance strategies and a solid material identification taxonomy to apply. Sadly, for most assets, that ship sailed years ago, and we live with an MRO catalogue of very dubious value…