“As these stages follow the evolution of EAM systems, we can now gain total understanding of when to repair assets and set the flow for issuing and tracking work orders. These include the operational phase, when the business is reactive on all of its maintenance, fixing something when it’s broken the consolidation phase when the company recognises maintenance could be improved, but can’t properly fund a major overhaul in practices the integration phase, where the financial aspects of maintenance are emphasised, and the company communicates expected ROI to secure extra funding for additional preventive measures the optimisation phase, which comes to the fore as enterprise participation increases, predictive maintenance begins, more data is collected and analysed, and the business begins to understand when failure is likely to occur and what business impact it will have and, lastly, the innovation stage where maintenance becomes part of a total company system, and the company combines prior techniques with operator involvement. According to Bouchier, there are five stages to a utility company’s asset management maturity. To achieve this, a full understanding of the maturity of the assets must be developed. The first step in this modernisation process is building a comprehensive asset strategy.

“The result is the ability to modernise equipment maintenance strategies for utilities (among other sectors),” adds Bouchier. Now, HxGN EAM (formerly known as Infor EAM) offers best-in-class, SaaS-based asset management solution for tracking assets, digitalising maintenance operations, and enabling customers in nearly any industry to reach optimum operational efficiency. In a recent market shift, Infor sold its EAM business to Hexagon. This effectively empowers more strategic decisions that extend asset life, ensure safety, and optimise profitability,” confirms Paul Bouchier, Sales Director at iOCO, within iOCO Software Distribution, an Infor Gold Partner. “With the right Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) tools in hand, businesses truly have access to the information they need, when they need it, where they need it. This may seem like a tall order, but with emerging technology, constant innovation, and software development in line with shifting needs, these solutions do exist.

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