Do you wonder how the benefits you are deriving from it stack up against other companies? If you have a gap between what you are experiencing and what world-class companies are getting, where can you close the gap?

Automation and reliability services supplier ABB, in Columbus, Ohio, has a program to analyze a company’s utilization of EAM and provide feedback on where it rates vs. others in a number of assessment areas.

Just knowing the various areas to evaluate can give operations and maintenance professionals a jump start toward improvement.

Following are some evaluation areas:

• Information Systems Strategy
• Business Processes
• Master Data Models and Structures
• Planned Maintenance
• Transactional Data
• System Utilization
• User Training
• System Administration and Support.

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