Enterprise asset management (EAM) has become a critical enabler in the success of the business. Once considered the domain of operations and floor managers, today, EAM delivers accurate, real-time information to leaders across the company, helping inform strategic and operational decisions.
In a recent IFS paper: A Resilient Enterprise with IFS Cloud EAM, we examined the remarkable advances underway within the EAM space and how companies leverage the technology to take affirmative action today while actively planning for the future.
This blog post takes a closer look at the strategic role of EAM and the broader business benefits it delivers.
An Enterprise-Wide View of the Business
With an ever-growing network of digital and always-on assets, EAM has come to represent the heartbeat of the business. Delivering accurate, real-time data, the strategic value of EAM surpasses its traditional role as a simple asset management tool, allowing the enterprise to:
- Implement universal business objectives
- Standardize best practices and productivity metrics
- Better manage aging infrastructure for greater control of operational risk
- Achieve productivity, sustainability, and regulatory goals
Universal business objectives
With EAM, companies set consistent operational business objectives across all sites and geographies, considering variances in infrastructure, workforce, and government/industry regulations by region. This balanced approach to achieving business objectives ensures each location contributes positively to the company’s common goals.
Once these standards have been defined and implemented, the company can monitor performance in real-time, quickly detecting and responding to irregularities as they happen.
This responsive business model allows leadership to make decisions in the moment. For example, if one facility is experiencing temporary downtime, productivity is increased in another to offset the variance until the situation resolves.
Standardized best practices and productivity
EAM technology provides data-driven metrics that allow leaders to compare best practices by facility. This broad oversight enables companies to quickly identify those work models that best accommodate the strategic needs of the business.
Once verified, best practices and workflows can be rolled out to all sites, ensuring a standardized model that optimizes overall productivity while achieving strategic corporate objectives.
Effective management of aging infrastructure
Aging infrastructure represents an ever-increasing risk to the enterprise with the potential of outages, hardware failures, and data corruption. While doing a whole-scale upgrade across the operation may not be feasible, the business must proactively manage older components to maximize safety and minimize disruptions.
EAM technology provides real-time oversight, including data collection and analysis, condition assessment, and alerts when risk levels exceed acceptable thresholds. These real-time insights allow the enterprise to respond proactively to potential risk scenarios, ensuring business continuity.
Achieve productivity, sustainability, and regulatory objectives
While previously considered a tactical tool focused on the output of physical assets, EAM has extended its value to the enterprise. Along with productivity management, EAM provides rich data insights that help the organization with strategic initiatives such as sustainability, where the business is responsible for its performance.
Support the strategic needs of your business with IFS Cloud EAM
Our customers rely on IFS Cloud EAM to provide resilient and always-on oversight of assets and processes. With data-driven insights, leaders can rely on accurate information to help inform important business decisions in the moment.
For more information, download the paper: A resilient Enterprise with IFS Cloud EAM or visit the EAM section of our website.
About IFS
IFS develops and delivers cloud enterprise software for companies around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. Within our single platform, our industry specific products are innately connected to a single data model and use embedded digital innovation so that our customers can be their best when it really matters to their customers – at the Moment of Service™.
The industry expertise of our people and of our growing ecosystem, together with a commitment to deliver value at every single step, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our global team of 5,000 employees every day live our values of agility, trustworthiness, and collaboration in how we support thousands of customers.
Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.
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