SwainSmith, Inc., is a global asset management consulting firm.
For more than 20 years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that target cost reduction while improving quality, safety, compliance, and uptime. We’re proud of our numbers, which include an average 10–30% reduction in maintenance costs and 3–5% improvement in equipment availability.
We have helped some of the world’s largest organizations get their ROI out of EAM. Please let us know if we can assist you.
Our management systems make EAM software systems perform.
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Technology can deliver the goods only when it is partnered with effective underlying practices.
Clear, informative job plans are the first step to developing a world-class PM/PdM program.
Documented practices are critical to standardizing physical asset management and achieving success.
When it comes to implementing EAM and CMMS software systems, the prevailing school of thought…
You wouldn’t use a wrench to drive a nail. So why manage your assets with a software system that’s…
EAM system coding structures are the most overlooked and underappreciated data elements in the…
Today’s market is crowded with hundreds of software systems, each trying to position itself…
A complete, accurate, structured equipment master (i.e., asset registry) is the starting point for…
Did you know that inefficient storeroom operations are the number one cause of maintenance delay?
When you’re focused on what you already know, it’s easy to miss a better way of doing things.
In asset management it takes two to tango. Practices and technology have to work together.
A better approach to asset management.
The standard playbook for asset management is broken. SwainSmith takes a different approach — one that addresses all of the variables needed to access rich, actionable EAM information.
A better approach to asset management.
The standard playbook for asset management is broken. SwainSmith takes a different approach — one that addresses all of the variables needed to access rich, actionable EAM information.
ISO 55000 Asset Management System Framework
How do you keep maintenance costs down and asset performance up? How do you stop reacting and start planning? How do you replace chaos with structure?
It starts with a framework. You need an outline of the environment you want to create—an outline you can follow when implementing your organization’s new, systematic approach to asset management.
Value MapTM Assessment
Asset management holds big opportunities for creating value. SwainSmith’s Value MapTM is your first step to realizing it. Our unique assessment program will measure your asset management against proven best practices, find opportunities for creating value, and give you a clear path to improvement.
ISO 55000 Asset Management System Framework
How do you keep maintenance costs down and asset performance up? How do you stop reacting and start planning? How do you replace chaos with structure?
It starts with a framework. You need an outline of the environment you want to create—an outline you can follow when implementing your organization’s new, systematic approach to asset management.
Value MapTM Assessment
Asset management holds big opportunities for creating value. SwainSmith’s Value MapTM is your first step to realizing it. Our unique assessment program will measure your asset management against proven best practices, find opportunities for creating value, and give you a clear path to improvement.
Start producing rich and reliable EAM information.
Lay the foundation for EAM/CMMS software success with the EAM Master Data Library from SwainSmith.
Supercharge EAM with SynergyTM
Management systems make EAM information systems successful. Policies, processes, and procedures are critical to software success and establishing effective maintenance, storeroom, and procurement operations.
Don’t start from scratch. Speed up your software implementation and improve data quality by building on proven best practices. Synergy is the ultimate booster pack for EAM software systems, containing thousands of industry-accepted practices, data conventions, KPIs, and more.
Make any EAM system work as advertised.
We work with every major software platform, including Infor EAM, Maximo, Oracle eAM, SAP EAM, TabWare, Avantis, and more. No matter what platform you use, we can help you access the asset management information you need to increase reliability, improve regulatory compliance, and reduce costs.
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EAM / CMMS: Know the Difference
Oct / Nov 2017
Today’s market is crowded with hundreds of software systems, each trying to position itself as the perfect maintenance and asset management solution. But they’re not all created equal. Understanding the difference between an enterprise asset management (EAM) system and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and knowing how to tell them apart under all the marketing hype are key to sorting through the herd and finding the asset information system that’s right for your business.
Infor Named a Leader in 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management Software
Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced that the company was recognized as a Leader in the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management Software for Infor EAM.