Enterprise Asset Management

This must-have resource for learning the ins-and-outs of SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) teaches you how to successfully structure your technical systems and business processes in plant maintenance using SAP EAM. All of the essential customizing settings and processes, from refurbishment to condition-based maintenance are covered. You'll explore the existing interfaces to other enterprises, learn about reporting options, and understand how to use new technologies, such as Mobile Asset Management (MAM), the Portal, or RFID. In addition, an entire chapter is dedicated to the success and risk factors of implementation projects, along with suggestions on how you can improve your system's usability. Throughout the book you'll find practical, real-life tips for customizing your daily EAM operations in SAP ERP 6.0.

Starting out with Enterprise Asset Management means being unsure about what to do, how to start and how to get the most out of it; preparing for success, and avoiding failure. There is enormous satisfaction in seeing the change succeed, overcoming the obstacles in the way to reap the rewards and benefits that using Enterprise Asset Management brings. Don't embark on the change unprepared or it will be doomed to fail. But it's my guess that since you're reading this, the forces of change have already been set in motion, and there is no going back. What you need is the resources, knowledge, and confidence required to overcome uncertainty and face Enterprise Asset Management changes. The job can be accomplished by having a roadmap and experiences from previous Enterprise Asset Management changes. This is where this book is your guide and roadmap. You will be able to relate to the experiences laid out in its resources covering all aspects of any Enterprise Asset Management initiative. Use it, and its INCLUDED resources, to get a strong foundation. It will provide aid, advice, blueprints, road maps en templates when you need it most. The book reflects the reality that the fastest way to learn about Enterprise Asset Management is from experiences, knowing about the ins and outs of employment and career developments, trends and popularity, relevant knowledge and patents AND the INCLUDED downloadable resources on Enterprise Asset Management Blueprints, Templates and Presentations. Whatever makes you decide to take on the change: growing business initiatives or career development plans, you are ready for a Enterprise Asset Management Change. The book and accompanying toolkit is your gateway and will fully support your commitment in moving forward and energize yourself and others.

Enterprise Asset Management: Configuring and Administering SAP R/3 Plant Maintenance provides a step-by-step guide to SAP PM configuration, information required by those interested in using the Plant Maintenance module or those interested in improving their use of the module. Benefit from years of R/3 Plant Maintenance implementation and upgrade experience across many industries. Gain an understanding of the many ways in which R/3 Plant Maintenance can be configured, described in terms that are easy to understand. Learn which configuration steps can be easily adjusted later and which cannot. Discover the configuration steps that integrate with other SAP R/3 modules and what effect the configuration will have on those modules. Enterprise Asset Management: Configuring and Administering SAP R/3 Plant Maintenance is a valuable resource for novices as well as those experienced with SAP configuration. Updated for SAP R/3 version 4.7 (R/3 Enterprise), it is also a valuable resource for upgrading existing SAP Plant Maintenance installations.

This book was written by a Maximo consultant for Maximo functional consultants to help them lead implementation projects better and faster. This is already the second edition of this book, revised and extended. The book covers the topic of how to implement IBM Maximo Asset Management efficiently and bring value to customers. The book begins by describing how to prepare the project and run the workshops. There is an explanation of how to design the system and what deliverables will be. The following chapters focus on the project organization to make it productive. This part of the book can be helpful also for managers of Maximo implementation teams. The second part of the book describes Maximo applications, their interactions, and processes. You will also find here a lot of configuration examples and sample content of the project deliverables. See what my readers have to say… “…I must thank you for your contribution towards the industry and how much it can help young and upcoming business consultants like me in getting things right. Knowledge is invaluable. Thanks for your time in creating a medium to share it globally…” —Hashmeet “…The book has immensely helped me in planning the activities and deploying the project….” —Kushal “…Very well written for a consultant to understand how to approach projects. Utilize many of your talking points with my clients. Great work!...” —John

Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Enterprise Asset Management work? How is the team addressing them? What other areas of the organization might benefit from the Enterprise Asset Management team's improvements, knowledge, and learning? Is the Enterprise Asset Management scope manageable? Meeting the Challenge: Are Missed Enterprise Asset Management opportunities Costing you Money? How would one define Enterprise Asset Management leadership? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Enterprise Asset Management assessment. Featuring 372 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Enterprise Asset Management improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Enterprise Asset Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Enterprise Asset Management and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Enterprise Asset Management Index, you will develop a clear picture of which Enterprise Asset Management areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Enterprise Asset Management Self-Assessment downloadable resource, containing all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book. This enables ease of (re-)use and enables you to import the questions in your preferred management tool. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help. This Self-Assessment has been approved by The Art of Service as part of a lifelong learning and Self-Assessment program and as a component of maintenance of certification. Optional other Self-Assessments are available. For more information, visit http: //theartofservice.com

When humans are well, they are in a state where body, mind, and spirit are holistically integrated, and, as a result, are healthy, happy, and resilient. The same can be said for a thriving business. Industrial and Manufacturing Wellness: The Complete Guide to Successful Enterprise Asset Management explains how to use reliability engineering principles to design and build companies that are robust, reliable, self-improving, integrated business systems best suited for achieving optimal results. Written by asset management expert Mike Sondalini, creator and author of The Plant Wellness Way, this revolutionary work goes beyond basic plant management. Instead, it reveals a completely new way to engineer and implement business processes and work flow strategies that deliver overall operational excellence. The author introduces risk management, decision-making methods that prove the worth or not of a change before it is initiated in the organization, thus protecting a company from making the wrong choices. His universally applicable process improvement concepts empower readers to take a system-wide approach that can be repeated infinitely to deliver maximum success. Features Presents the first reliability engineering-based design and business process management solution. Includes a complete methodology to deliver enterprise asset management, plant maintenance, and equipment reliability. Shows how to maximize production uptime while minimizing costs and, uniquely, how to sustain those improvements. Incorporates the ISO 55001 framework in re-engineering business processes for operational success. Uses tips to reduce business processes to the fewest, simplest, quickest, safest, and most productive solutions.

Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Enterprise Asset Management work? How is the team addressing them? What other areas of the organization might benefit from the Enterprise Asset Management team's improvements, knowledge, and learning? Is the Enterprise Asset Management scope manageable? Meeting the Challenge: Are Missed Enterprise Asset Management opportunities Costing you Money? How would one define Enterprise Asset Management leadership? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Enterprise Asset Management assessment. Featuring 372 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Enterprise Asset Management improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Enterprise Asset Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Enterprise Asset Management and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Enterprise Asset Management Index, you will develop a clear picture of which Enterprise Asset Management areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Enterprise Asset Management Self-Assessment downloadable resource, containing all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book. This enables ease of (re-)use and enables you to import the questions in your preferred management tool. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help. This Self-Assessment has been approved by The Art of Service as part of a lifelong learning and Self-Assessment program and as a component of maintenance of certification. Optional other Self-Assessments are available. For more information, visit http://theartofservice.com