Following a maintenance strategy is a crucial component of optimizing performance and maximizing production in any business. Failing to conduct proper maintenance can lead to inefficiencies, breakdowns and unexpected downtime - all of which can cost a business significant amounts of money.

Asset integrity management (AIM) is the process of ensuring that an organisation’s physical assets and people are operating as intended and are fit for purpose. This includes both the maintenance and upkeep of any assets, along with the identification of any risks that may impact their performance. 

Based in Houston, Texas, Add Energy’s Managing Director for the US Asset & Integrity Management division, Jennifer Bellacosa, has developed a strong passion and depth of knowledge of the challenges facing operations & maintenance (O&M) teams across various sectors, resulting in a wealth of expertise in how to overcome these problems. From CMMS migrations and data analysis, to spare parts management and maintenance strategies, Jennifer is dedicated to taking the time to understand our customers and help them find the best solutions for the challenges they’re facing.

Asset integrity management (AIM) is the term that describes the practice of visualising and managing assets to ensure they’re performing their required functions, safely, effectively and efficiently throughout their lifetime and potentially for an extended lifetime if the right data has been collected.

A company’s asset register is incredibly important, but it’s often an overlooked source of data when considering the opportunities to optimize the efficiency of a facility.

In this blog post, we share common issues that result from a poor asset register, and provide actionable advice on how to overcome them in your own business.

Mergers and acquisitions can present a number of challenges across all areas of the two businesses as they embark on the huge change of becoming a single entity. There are so many important decisions to be made in order to effectively streamline operations, production, systems and people. 

The journey towards two companies becoming one single entity can be extremely challenging and stressful, with so many important considerations and decisions to be made to effectively streamline operations, systems, people and so much more. 

On Thursday 9th February, Add Energy hosted a free webinar on the what, why and how of master asset data collection, validation and enrichment, in order to help attendees mitigate against common challenges and pitfalls.

The webinar was held in response to Add Energy’s 2022 Maintenance Manager report, where one third of more than 400 professionals who took part in the study identified CMMS data quality and usage as one of the biggest challenges they currently face.