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In today's world, the machines and systems used in manufacturing and industry are complex - comprising thousands of equipment assets at any one facility. Understanding why equipment failures occur is necessary to the development of strategies to improve profit and reduce risk.
With limited exception, most corporations today are standardized on a select few CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) or EAM (enterprise asset management) systems. Predominate systems include SAP, Oracle's eAM, IBM's Maximo and Ventyx (formerly Indus) Passport. In terms of maintaining equipment assets at a facility, these systems are used to request, plan, approve, schedule and execute work. There is usually some form of integration with purchasing, spare parts, contracted services, resources, permits, etc. Equipment failure information - collected at various points in the repair process and documented by others (equipment operators, maintenance supervisors, planners, technicians, etc.) who use the system - is a key component in corporate reliability efforts. However, these reliability efforts are often hampered by incomplete or inaccurate failure information. The reasons surrounding this are twofold - technically there needs to be effective code sets in the system forming the foundation for reporting failure events and organizationally the system users need to fully understand the benefits of the coding process and how the usage of code sets will ultimately profit everyone. Click here to download Understanding the Basics of Failure and Event Coding for EAM and CMMS and use this information: - To provide everyone in your organization with a basic understanding of failure coding
- As a starting point for individuals responsible for the development of failure codes
- To augment the experience of those guiding failure code implementations - aiding stakeholders, champions and ultimately, the business sponsors as they make decisions during implementation efforts
- To measure the meaningfulness of your current failure codes
- To aid in the review process if you currently have failure codes in your system, but their effectiveness is limited
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