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Achieving net zero with Orien

To help our clients meet this challenge and reduce their climate impacts, our team recently developed a new Orien module that accurately tracks and forecasts emissions in your operations.

Wilson Bernardo

Activity based budgeting, the path to cost effective risk optimisation

Generating budgets and integrating them seamlessly into a maintenance strategy can be challenging for asset-intensive organisations.

Carlos Andrés Rodríguez

Integration of maintenance and finance in spare parts management

Asset-intensive companies are often challenged to align the objectives of operations and finance teams, particularly when it comes to governing the management of spare part inventories that support operation and maintenance.

Igor Peregrino

Mastering master data

Data-driven decision-making is the backbone of effective asset management. However, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the data that inform major decisions can be challenging.

Daniele Rocha

Balancing performance, cost and risk – the asset manager’s challenge

Competing interests between various areas of an organisation can make asset management challenging, but the prizes are big.

Brian Spicer

Safety implications of poor asset maintenance

Operating and maintaining assets effectively is key to managing costs and profitability. However, achieving it isn’t an easy feat.

Jon Garnaut

The importance of lifecycle costing

In this article, we will dive deeper into the ZBB makeup, discussing the importance of capturing the complete lifecycle of an asset and how Orien makes it possible.

Brian Spicer

Data governance or chaos?

Data is essential to optimise asset performance. It is used in a number of ways, from building maintenance strategies and managing lifecycle costs to determining why assets fail and understanding asset criticality.

Jon Garnaut

Empowering maintenance managers with Orien

In asset-intensive industries, understanding the balance between cost and risk is essential to building effective maintenance strategies.

Jon Garnaut

How accurate is your operational budget?

Most organisations use several systems to manage their accounting and finances. One system is used for budgeting purposes, another for actual expenditure and a myriad of spreadsheets are used across the business to handle the details.

Jon Garnaut

How to know when you’ve outgrown Excel

More asset intensive organisations are embracing the digital revolution, using the latest technologies to build and maintain their operations and become more globally competitive.

Jon Garnaut

How do you determine the efficiency of a maintenance strategy?

A maintenance strategy underpins the performance of a company’s assets, everything from trucks and drills to crushers and conveyors. Having a proactive maintenance strategy is critical to ensuring each asset performs at expected levels while also reducing the risk.

Jon Garnaut

Understanding the true cost of your strategy from a budget perspective

A maintenance plan is critical to ensure a company’s assets are reaching optimal performance and to protect the health and safety of employees. By having a maintenance strategy, asset-intensive companies can gain insight into when their assets need to be repaired or replaced and prevent a breakdown.

Brian Spicer

Building a new maintenance strategy

In previous articles in this series we discussed the importance of keeping assets running at optimal levels and performance for production to remain on track, gaining buy-in across the organization, as well as the role of criticality analysis to mitigate potential risks and subsequent failures.

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Managing asset criticality

Asset intensive organizations operate in ever-changing environments. Changes in commodity prices, global economies, environmental and health and safety standards have great impact on asset management strategies.

Jon Garnaut

Maintenance strategy from the executive level: An investment in your bottom line

Most drivers take their vehicles in for maintenance every few months or few thousand kilometres to keep them running smoothly. Regular maintenance also reduces the risk of a breakdown — especially during a critical point of a journey such as in a remote area or on a busy highway.

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