If you manage plants, fleets, or large facilities, your assets drive your daily reality. When they perform well, work flows smoothly. When they fail, costs jump, schedules slip, and customers notice.

EAM and CMMS are two of the most common systems for manufacturing asset management and maintenance. While the two systems have some things in common, there are some major differences in functions and ...

Enterprise asset management (EAM) was born in the 1970s, a child of CMMS, computerized maintenance management systems, notes Houghton LeRoy, director of research at the ARC Advisory Group, a Dedham, ...