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There are very few modern processes that don’t benefit from a good checklist— basic car maintenance? Yep. Packing for a trip? For sure! Boiling an egg? Yes, even that. And the same goes for your preventive maintenance program. A preventive maintenance checklist...
Three benefits of using QR codes in maintenance
Imagine, you walk onto the production floor with a stack of paperwork orders in hand. Some equipment requires an oil change and some parts need to be replaced. As you grab an oil canister, it drops right onto the work orders. The oil ruins all the work orders and gets...
6 Ways Content Services Platform Can Help Unleash the Power of Content
A content services platform is the ideal approach for optimizing business performance through efficient utilization of enterprise content. It can enable your organization to create, collaborate, share, transform, and leverage content for deriving business value. The...
How AI is Radically Transforming Information Management
Over the last decade, virtually all industries have been altered and improved by the growth of artificial intelligence. However, one area that has changed radically, but many might not think of, has been the document management ecosystem. Information-rich tasks have...
Don’t Let Data Risks Spoil Your M&A Party
The global market for mergers and acquisitions reached new heights last year, and many expect the frenzy to continue in 2022. The latest annual survey from Pitchbook estimated there were 38,000 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in 2021, with just...
All About Enterprise Content Management
Organizations, across industries, are dependent on paperwork in some way or the other. However, managing the growing volume of documents is a task. To manage this deluge of varied content across data sources and to create a workplace without boundaries with...
Finding Contracts in the Wild: A Good Start for Managing ESG and Other Third-Party Risks
The Covid pandemic has shown many organizations how much they rely on third parties in their supply chains, to help them deliver services and products to customers. At the same time, the growth in environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns has forced many...
Digital Transformation – Need of the Hour
Digital transformation has undoubtedly become a critical part of the boardroom agenda for organizations of all sizes and scales. Gartner states that organizations accelerate digital transformation processes for long-term growth and profitability. Yet: “53% of the...
Grow Your Business by Going Green
What if you could do something good for the planet and make your workday easier? It sounds crazy in our digital era, but the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper annually. In the last 20 years, the usage of paper products in the US reached 208...
What Is a Work Order? 6 Steps for The Perfect Work Order
Work orders are the engine of your maintenance operation. They power your team and move work from point A to point B. But there are millions of engines in the world, from rusted duds to high-powered studs. This article is about mastering the maintenance work order so...
Choosing an Ideal Digital Transformation Platform – Six Considerable Criteria
One size fits all approach doesn’t necessarily work for organizations in today’s dynamic business environment. An ideal digital transformation platform gives you the flexibility to smoothly cater to your business requirements. Therefore, it is important for you to...
Criticality Analysis: What is it and how is it done?
Criticality and reliability-centered maintenance go hand-in-hand. Think about it: We’re told to prioritize PMs for critical assets, to build a TPM plan that accommodates critical pieces of equipment, and to perform root cause analysis on machinery that we consider to...
FACT CHECKING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: EFFICIENCY VS. ACCURACY
Artificial intelligence or, more specifically, deep learning entered the digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) space originally to help reduce the amount of time investigators spent analyzing cases. It started out with simple skin tone and body shape...
A Guide to Building and Measuring a Lean Maintenance Strategy
Professional racing is a masterclass in efficiency. Teams don’t just dislike waste—they hate it. Every millisecond of a pit stop has a purpose. Every component of a car is analyzed to ensure it’s functioning at its best. Strategies are designed to get from point A to...
Sustainability with Intelligent Information Management
Fighting climate change has undoubtedly become, and rightly so, one of the major drivers of people's behavior in recent years. At the same time, the importance of sustainability to business has grown too. Whilst companies have to a large extent realized their...
5 Ways Your Maintenance Team Can Increase Production Efficiency
Every day, meat processing plants need to make sure the metal detectors in their machines are working. It’s a simple check to ensure there’s metal where there should be and no metal where there shouldn’t be. This process involves running test balls through the...
The perfect formula for aligning operations and maintenance
When operations and maintenance don’t work well together, it can be costly. And messy. Take this story of a food manufacturer as an example. The facility uses a sheeter, which rolls huge balls of dough. The sheeter needs to be cleaned every day. The production team...
Natural Language Processing Acquisition Opens Doors For Nuix Product Roadmap
Nuix announced its decision to buy Topos Labs, Inc. (Topos), a developer of natural language processing (NLP) software that helps computer systems better understand text and spoken words at speed and scale. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Topos designed its artificial...