Asset Operations Management for Reliability Teams

The reliability team is an integral part of any company. While maintenance focuses on an asset when it needs repairing, and operations focuses on an asset while it’s currently running, reliability focuses on long-term planning for that same asset.

But despite maintenance, reliability, and operations working on the same asset in parallel, each team isn’t working together. This separates everything they’re doing for their assets into silos, which results in misaligned perspectives across the business. One can see how this would be especially frustrating for the reliability team who’s tasked with strategic, long-term planning. 

It doesn’t have to be this way, though.

With Asset Operations Management, UpKeep gives reliability teams a holistic view of their company programs. This new paradigm is supported by easy-to-use, affordable technology that delivers the same powerful capabilities as costly, enterprise-grade solutions.

In this next installment of our blog series on Asset Operations Management, we’ll show what Asset Operations Management means for reliability teams.

Improved Reliability

Asset Operations Management allows organizations to get ahead of preventive maintenance, ensuring uptime and increasing the speed and quality of responsiveness to routine facility questions. These results are possible by ensuring tools, operations, and people cohesively work together toward the same goals. When disparate systems become aligned, reliability teams are able to make important business decisions with full visibility across the entire company life cycle. 

Also, through standardization and automation of preventive maintenance tasks, reliability teams can increase the lifespan of their assets and avoid catastrophic failures—key objectives for any reliability team.  

Automated Issue Assignment

Managing a reliability department can be overwhelming, especially if you have an immense number of assets and technicians to oversee. With Asset Operations Management, tasks can be automatically assigned to appropriate team members with the correct expertise. Additionally, Asset Operations Management guarantees consistency with work order documentation and instant access to work order information.

Reduced Paperwork

Technology is moving at a breakneck pace. However, many reliability teams are still managing tasks with pen and paper systems. Whether it’s word-of-mouth, phone calls, emails, or sticky notes, these inefficient tactics significantly weaken productivity and increase costs.

Asset Operations Management continuously tracks interactions within a facility versus employees having to manually log each step. This platform is designed to streamline work orders, collect maintenance data on labor and assets, manage inventory, and generate reports that can lead to long-term, smarter business decisions. It’s one front door for team members to get what they need.

Greater Visibility and Control

We’re currently living in an intelligence golden age. Despite this fact, many reliability teams aren’t utilizing technology advances. By utilizing Asset Operations Management, reliability leaders receive granular data on each interaction to find ways to enhance and optimize performance. Some possibilities include:

• Custom dashboards that align with your reliability team’s metrics and KPIs.

• Visual and PDF reports for any pre-made or custom dashboard for easy sharing throughout the organization.

• The ability to categorize and view work order statuses by technician, team, asset, or location.

Reliability teams get a complete picture of all work orders performed, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks to optimize overall service and workload balance.

Traceability and Audit Trail

Making sure an organization is compliant with regulatory standards is an integral part of a reliability team’s duties. Asset Operations Management automatically logs and tracks each item in a facility for any and all regulatory/compliance needs. Users can provide historical documentation and upload safety and regulatory manuals, so workers have the information they need. 

Furthermore, Asset Operations Management provides configurable analytics and reporting, so inspectors and regulators have all the historical information they need.

For reliability teams, Asset Operations Management drives accountability, streamlines workflows to reduce menial tasks, and allows workers to focus on the important issues. All of these benefits change how reliability is reported in order to shift how reliability is valued.  

To learn more about Asset Operations Management, visit our Asset Operations Management landing page!