Enterprise Asset Management
Public reference pages on EAM concepts, standards, operations, roles, platforms, and common failure modes.
Chapters
- 1. What EAM is
Enterprise asset management (EAM) is used in two overlapping senses: as a discipline of managing physical assets across their life, and as a software class that records hierarch…
- 2. EAM vs CMMS vs APM vs EHS
Four overlapping classes. A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is day-to-day maintenance execution. EAM software is life-cycle register plus enterprise integratio…
- 3. Asset lifecycle
Physical assets move through creation and acquisition, operation, maintenance, and repurposing or disposal. ISO 55000 and ISO 55001 take a life-cycle view of value, cost, risk a…
- 4. ISO 55000 family
The ISO 55000 series is a management-system family for asset management, maintained by ISO/TC 251. It is not a software specification and it is not “the EAM standard.” ISO 55001…
- 5. Work orders, PM, and inventory
The work order is the transactional object that makes enterprise asset management (EAM) software a system of record rather than a logbook. NASA’s facilities-maintenance procedur…
- 6. Roles
Planning is the work package (what/how). Scheduling is who/when (usually the supervisor). The technician owns actuals and the observed failure mode. Reliability owns failure rat…
- 7. Platform landscape
The 2026 EAM / CMMS market is two overlapping product classes, not a ranked list: enterprise suites bought as the maintenance system of record (often enterprise-resource-plannin…
- 8. Failure modes and ROI traps
EAM / CMMS programmes fail as change programmes, not as missing modules. Practitioner and vendor write-ups converge on the causes. A single CMMS-sample failure rate is not in th…
- Glossary
One page of terms. Preferred source is a named standard’s catalogue abstract, a free primary PDF, or a labelled industry-usage note. No invented ISO 55000:2024 clause 3 text. 20…
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