Mobile transformations may seem expensive but sticking with outdated paper methods for industrial maintenance is far more costly — negatively impacting the bottom line and performance. Market leaders have invested, and digitally transformed their companies by automating every step of the industrial maintenance process. And this includes deploying mobile maintenance solutions needed to create a connected workforce.
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Digital transformations have taken hold across the enterprise, but some departments have been slower to shift to digitized and automated operations. For organizations in asset-intensive industries, especially in areas like maintenance management, deploying successful transformations are key to maximizing equipment uptime, reducing costs, and mitigating the impact of labor shortages.
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Today’s organizations are under more pressure than ever to improve productivity while reducing their operating costs to boost their bottom lines. But profitability does not have to come at the expense of forgoing investments in digital transformation solutions or cutting maintenance jobs. With today’s skilled labor shortage, you need to optimize the use of your limited staffing.
A mobile maintenance solution can help organizations to cost-effectively transform their maintenance departments while retaining valuable human resources. Read about how the return on investment in purchasing a solution can be secured without counting on a reduction in headcount from the productivity gains.
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Business success doesn’t occur in a vacuum – when an organization is running like an efficient, finely tuned machine, that’s a good indication that the maintenance department is working its magic away from the spotlight. Put simply, an effective maintenance department structure is key to organizational success.
Understanding the importance of your maintenance department is easy. Ensuring that the moving parts of said department are firing on all cylinders to keep your assets performing at peak levels presents more of a challenge. In most cases, optimal maintenance department structure starts with good organizational design. With this article, we’re going to explore some ways that you can achieve this moving forward.
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Unplanned downtime can cost manufacturing plants billions of dollars each year. These costs include both tangible and intangible expenses. Knowing the true costs of downtime is crucial to making informed plant maintenance decisions. Moreover, identifying some of the common causes of unplanned downtime allows organizations to act proactively rather than reactively.
In this article, we will explore some of the common causes ofunplanneddowntime and the associated costs. We will conclude with a discussion of 3 strategiestoprevent unplanned downtimethrough plant maintenance.
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In this 3-part series, we have been covering strategies for maintenance operations teams to avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology). Just a reminder, pilot purgatory is about getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of new technology, and therefore not able to show results and scale the deployment. So far,we have coveredPeopleandProcesses.This isthe last article in our seriesand the focus is onhow to choose and implementthe righttechnologyfor effective change managementto avoid pilot purgatory.
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What is pilot purgatory? Pilot purgatory is about getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of a new technology, and therefore not able to show results and scale the deployment. In this 3-part series we will discuss strategies forindustrialmaintenance operations teams to avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology).Article one covered “People” so inthis article we move on to “Process” and how it’s critical to look deep into the maintenance department’s work structures and tasks as youtransform with digital solutions.
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What is pilot purgatory?Pilot purgatory isabout getting stalled in the pilot or testing phase of new technologylike a Mobile EAM solution,and thereforenotable toshowresultsandscalethe deployment.In this 3-part series, we willdiscuss strategiesfor maintenance operations teamsto avoid pilot purgatory based on the PPT framework (People-Process-Technology).This piece will discusseffective change managementby addressingPeople, theirmindsets,andtheirrole in the change.
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