Operational risk management is receiving increased attention and focus in recent times as organizations seek to improve their overall performance and mitigate potential loss. To manage risk effectively, you have to choose the right data and metrics and have a clear sense of how all the moving parts work together. ... Continue reading Six Sources of Failure in Managing Risk »
From high-end sunglasses to computer tablets, the world’s leading brands are investing big dollars in product life-cycle assessments (LCA). Why are today’s top brands racing to complete their LCAs before their competitors? Today’s tier one suppliers and many well-known, progressive brands understand the impact of their products on the environment ... Continue reading Environmental Labeling: A Competitive Differentiator or Fad? »
In case you missed the announcement, the Infor EAM Customer Forum 2011 will be held in Greenville, South Carolina, November 7–10, 2011.That’s right, Greenville, SC—the world center for all things Infor EAM (formerly Datastream).Join us at the largest gathering of EAM users and product experts, and participate in over 80 ... Continue reading EAM User Conference: Registration is Open »
I’m a Weather Channel junkie…I’m fascinated by weather in general and how it affects our lives, every day, all around the globe. What’s even more fascinating to me is how the meteorologists are able to accurately (well, almost always) predict weather conditions for nearly every corner of our planet, days—sometimes ... Continue reading Predictive Technologies Enhance Equipment Reliability »
Companies are realizing that it’s no longer enough just to monitor assets. The time has come to proactively detect problems and drive corrective actions, as well as factor energy into maintenance plans, in order to stay competitive and grow. But how does an enterprise asset management (EAM) solution actually work ... Continue reading Take a Virtual Tour of Plant Efficiency »
The best way to get fit and stay fit is to maintain an exercise regimen and eat less junk. The same is true for your plant and equipment. By implementing a planned maintenance program and identifying maintenance waste items, you can create an environment where lean maintenance and lean manufacturing ... Continue reading Getting Lean with Better Performance Maintenance and Tracking »
Driven by the desire to improve its energy efficiency and condition monitoring, a wastewater reclamation authority embarked on a project to integrate its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and enterprise asset management (EAM) applications to enable that objective. Read the full Plant Services article now in this installment of ... Continue reading EAM + SCADA = Energy Savings »
In 2009, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced that it had selected Infor EAM Enterprise Edition to help reduce costs and increase productivity and became yet another in the growing number of success stories Infor has to share. CTA, the nation’s second-largest public transit agency, provides transportation for the City of ... Continue reading Profile of Success: Chicago Transit Authority and Infor EAM Enterprise Edition »
Guest post by Sylvelie Franke, Director Marketing, Strategic Solutions, Infor EAM Asset management has been around for decades and is now considered a mature industry. But, that’s all changing with the evolution—transition, if you like—of the technology and the inclusion of energy, automation, and business intelligence (BI) to really have ... Continue reading The Evolution of EAM: From a Preventive Maintenance to a Reliability Strategy »
In this day of uncertainty, people often gravitate toward anything that offers stability, dependability, and consistency—in personal relationships, institutions, or investments.We then use these as a foundation for creating our opinions, thoughts, and actions in the foreseeable future.We’re constantly on a quest for reliability. Those instinctual behaviors that drive our ... Continue reading Keep Your Finger on the Pulse of Your Assets »
