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Maintenance Trends 2025: Insights from Dynaway CONNECT Speakers

With the new year 2025 just starting, we are reviewing past maintenance trends and...

Maintenance Trends 2025

Why Dynaway CONNECT 2025 is the Must-Attend Asset Management Conference

Are you looking to stay ahead in asset management? Want to be part of a movement that’s...

Why Dynaway CONNECT 2025 is the must-attend Asset Management Conference

What is EAM Software?

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software streamlines asset management across an entire...

What is EAM software?

Empower Your Understanding of Asset Management vs. Service Management

Learn the main differences between asset management and service management and find the...

All You Need To Know About Technical Documentation: A Guide Enriched With Expert Insights

Technical documentation is more than a collection of instructions on paper or screen — it...

Technical Documentation Article

7 Reasons Why You Need to Utilize Predictive Maintenance Strategy

The International Society of Automation (ISA) estimates that manufacturers lose $647...

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The Power of Artificial Intelligence in Predictive Maintenance

As the technologies advance, so do the challenges companies face.

10 Maintenance Statistics that Drive Your KPI Selection

Industrial maintenance is awash with data.

3 Ways Dynaway EAM Can Support Your ESG Strategy

You’ve probably heard the acronym ESG with increasing frequency in recent times.

5 EAM Standards You Need To Know

Are you tired of dealing with failing assets, unexpected downtime, safety near misses,...

10 Common Worries When Choosing EAM Software (And How To Manage Them)

When you purchase a hair dryer or a vacuum cleaner, a small part of you is always worried...

4 Ways to Maximize Financial Performance with Asset Management

Imagine the financial impact of a major machine breakdown on your company's bottom line...

6 Must-Know Facts for New and Experienced Maintenance Managers

The role of a maintenance manager might be compared to being a soccer club manager: you...

5 Popular Challenges to Overcome in the Manufacturing Industry

For manufacturers and consumers across all industries, the world is a tough and...

5 Greatest Challenges in the Maintenance World

Maintenance is no longer just about replacing worn-out parts or doing a few repairs. With...

5 greatest challenges in the maintenance world

7 Expensive Mistakes for Maintenance Managers to Avoid

Being a maintenance manager in today’s world is a tough gig. Ask one what it’s like if...

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8 Key Questions IT Leaders Must Ask Before Purchasing a New EAM Software

Purchasing anything comes with risk.  Buy a low-end washing machine and it may fail in a...

Switching from Paper to Digital Solutions: The Easy Way

'Change before you have to', Jack Welch once said. In those five little words are all the...

6 Challenges that Mining Industry is Facing Now

The mining industry all over the world is facing complex challenges from all directions....

5 Crucial Challenges to Overcome for the Food & Beverage Industry

The world of manufacturing is a difficult place right now. Spiraling food, commodity, and...

The role of the maintenance team in your facility

As the saying goes, ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’ And when it comes to ensuring...

The role of the maintenance team in your facility

A guide to maintenance repair and replacement plans

Every maintenance department knows the importance of preventing asset failure. It’s how...

Maintenance, Production, & Finance: How to Improve Communication in 4 Simple Steps

The key to improving communication between departments is really quite simple: mutual...

3 different types of maintenance management analysis

If there’s anything more important to maintenance management than collecting data, it’s...

What is scheduled maintenance?

There are few things that matter more to asset management than the maintenance schedule....

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What is a work order? A beginner’s guide

When you’re responsible for overseeing operations at one or more manufacturing or heavy...

Speed Up Implementation of Dynaway EAM for Business Central

Some of the questions that we often hear from the partners and customers are: how to...

The 6 Questions You Should Ask When Choosing EAM Software

It’s tough choosing the right maintenance management software.  And it’s a big deal...

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) in the Manufacturing Industry

Modern and high-performing organizations demand customized and effective software to...

Creating an Effective Maintenance Plan: What should you include?

Effective maintenance planning is essential to the overall maintenance environment. The...

New Year brings bright new features to Dynaway EAM for Business Central

Dynaway EAM add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central has four major releases during the...

What is the ideal maintenance strategy for your organization?

Maintenance is an essential part of any facility’s equipment infrastructure. 

How to integrate your systems

There is undoubtedly great value to be gained by linking the company's systems together...

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LOTO best practices, part 2: Establish a strong LOTO procedure

In the first installment of this two-part blog series, we provided a basic overview of...

LOTO Best Practices, Part 1: What Is Lockout Tagout?

The importance of employee safety, in all contexts within a manufacturing or industrial...

Finance aspects of the assets – where accounting meets maintenance

One of the key benefits of registering assets and maintenance operations in your ERP...

Why a CMMS System is Essential for Preventive Maintenance

What Is Preventive Maintenance? Preventive maintenance is a systematic approach that...

Permit to Work: Major Risks, Necessary Precautions and Key Considerations

Walk around any typical industrial site and you'll see all sorts of maintenance...

[CASE STORY] Luck Stone

Dynaway EAM puts the power back where it belongs -  with Luck Stone users

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The fundamentals (and benefits) of total productive maintenance

Adopting a preventive maintenance model for your facility and practicing its tenets...

Total Productive Maintenance

Dynaway EAM vs. Service module in Microsoft Business Central

The Service Management module comes as standard functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365...

The complications of reactive maintenance — and how to avoid them

Equipment maintenance is a cornerstone of facilities management. The scope and...

Reactive Maintenance Pressure

Key benefits of preventive maintenance software

Maintenance is essential to the steady long-term operation of any factory, industrial...

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How to register external cost for your maintenance work?

When doing maintenance, it’s not uncommon to have expenses and additional costs such as...

Microsoft Asset Management: What You Need To Know

Losing track of the status of even one seemingly minor piece of equipment in a heavy...

Microsoft Asset Management

Importing IoT data to EAM-BC with Power Automate - No coding required

This article showcases how to integrate EAM for Business Central (EAM-BC) with Azure...

The fundamentals and benefits of condition-based maintenance

While it might not be precisely accurate to describe the current moment for the global...

Work Requests: The Currency that Keeps Maintenance Management Moving

Maintenance Requests – also known as Work Requests – are a key player in strategic asset...

14 EAM Features That Should be on Your Checklist

If you are reading this, there' a good chance you already work at an asset-intensive...

Simplify Failure Reporting in Maintenance

During the heat of a long and difficult maintenance shift, industrial engineers sometimes...

EAM for Business Central

A Plan for Conquering (and Preventing) Work Order Backlog

Crumbling infrastructure is a worldwide problem - spurred on, in part, by inaccurate...

Infographic: What do Maintenance Professionals REALLY think about IoT?

Even though the industry is full of buzz-words like Digital Transformation and IoT,...

Market Analysis: How much does CMMS/EAM software cost?

Many providers, especially in the EAM space avoid this question. "Call for a quote!"...

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Implementing EAM Software: 4 Challenges and How to Solve Them

Let’s get to the point early on. Getting EAM / CMMS implementation wrong is expensive...

10 signs you should switch to a new EAM system

Modern CMMS / EAM software can offer you so much more than its 20th century predecessors.

Work Order Management: The Right Way

Work order management. If you do it the right way, your organization will reap the...

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Beginners Guide : Industrial Lubrication

Lubrication. That word makes some people smile. But in industrial organizations...

Reliability & Availability: How to Get There with FMEAs and P-F Curves

For organizations that suffer from unexpected failures and unplanned downtime, Failure...

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Vibration & IIoT Sensors

Vibrationanalysis is a key technology in the ever-changing world of IIoT and ...

IoT sensors

5 Reasons IoT Projects Fail and How to Avoid It

Many Industrial IoT projects fail. Many IIoT value chains have ended up with broken,...

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EAM/CMMS for Microsoft Business Central: Software Features

You spend money on features when you purchase or lease software. Everyone loves a good...

IoT Sensors in Maintenance

Maintenance is changing. Rapidly. Predictive maintenance is evolving almost by the hour.

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Condition Monitoring: Let your assets talk to you

Just like us, assets can speak. Their talk and their words consist of parameters and...

What is Preventive Maintenance?

Preventive Maintenance Explained Preventive maintenance (PM) is critical to...

Everything you need to know about IoT in maintenance

1. Condition Monitoring: Let your assets talk to you Just like us, assets can speak.

Work Order Software

At Dynaway, we rely on proven technologies that help us create great EAM applications and...

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The Permit-to-Work Life Cycle

Like any industrial process, a safety permit-to-work has a beginning, a middle, and an...

Prevent Accidents in the Workplace with a Permit to Work System

Digital transformation of Safe Work has gained momentum. With a workforce armed with...

The state of smartwatches in Enterprise Asset Management

Employing technology to improve asset management will boost your business decades...

How the Right Maintenance Data Tracking Can Benefit Your Company

As a maintenance manager, planner, or supervisor, you know how important it is to keep...

6 Pitfalls of a Poorly Set Up Asset Register and How to Avoid Them

A poorly set-up asset register and asset hierarchy can cause your manufacturing...

Clean Out Your Computer Day: Organize EAM

Started in 2000 by the Institute of Business Technology, national clean out your...

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Economic Slowdown: Great Time to Invest in EAM

With the beginning of the new decade, many businesses have started preparing for an...

Work Order Execution: Maintenance Checklists

Managing your preventive maintenance can be a challenge. One of the best ways you can do...

How to Implement a Total Productive Maintenance Plan (TPM)

The successful and sustainable implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (also known...

Total Productive Maintenance

EAM in D365 (Asset Management in Microsoft Supply Chain)

In the new release for October 2019, Microsoft has announced a lot of new capabilities...

Microsoft Asset Management

Asset Management on Microsoft Dynamics®

Enterprise Asset Management versus Asset Management on Microsoft Dynamics® 365 for...

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Preventive Maintenance: All you need to know

More and more often we can hear about Preventive Maintenance. But what exactly it means?...

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Preventive Maintenance & Sequences

How do you know when your equipment needs maintenance? Do you trust your gut or follow...

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Preventive Maintenance Software

Preventive maintenance is a systematic maintenance strategy where work is carried out...

Preventive Maitnenance

How to Create Preventive Maintenance Plan

Preventive maintenance is vital for every business. Without proper preventive...

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Microsoft D365 Asset Management | Preview

We are pleased to announce the preview program of Dynaway EAM for Microsoft D365 Asset...

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INFOGRAPHIC: How To Choose The Right EAM Solution Provider?

In the sea of CMMS/EAM providers and solutions, finding the right one for your business...

How to choose EAM

8 steps to reduce Maintenance Management Costs

The well-being of equipment has a huge impact on the overall efficiency in the...

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Failure Data Analysis in Maintenance (MTTR, PPC and more)

In any asset-intensive industry, from manufacturing to mining to food and beverage...

Maintenance ROI and KPI

[CASE STORY] Pattern Energy

Top-notch experience and world-class work effort from Dynaway Team –Pattern Energy

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Spare Parts Inventory Software

As a maintenance manager, your livelihood hinges on your ability to control maintenance...

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3D Printing of Spare Parts

3D printing is changing things in many industries including Manufacturing and Natural...

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How To Increase Safety in Maintenance

Effective maintenance management helps your business go further by reducing maintenance...

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The Mobile EAM | Maintenance App

Mobile EAM for the Maintenance Worker In order to have optimized Maintenance Management...

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8 Key Factors When Choosing EAM

  In the sea of CMMS/EAM providers and solutions, finding the right one for your...

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Offline Inventory App for Remote Locations

When the EAM Mobile Client is online, you can request item information, allowing you to...

Maintenance Planning

Effective maintenance planning and work order scheduling ensure a safer and more...

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Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for Maintenance

Why Maintenance Performance, Reporting, and KPIs are Critical to Organizational Success

Spare parts and consumption

The Dynaway Enterprise Asset Management system allows users to track spare parts on...

Blockchain and Manufacturing - Is there a connection?

Introduction Blockchain is not only a tempting technology and a buzzword used within...

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5 Considerations behind enterprise digital transformation.

Digital Transformation stands for the integration of digital technology within all...

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IoT in Maintenance

More and more we are hearing about the internet of things (IoT), but what does it...

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The right stuff: Asset management in manufacturing

There’s nothing worse than starting a home improvement project and discovering midway...

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Transforming manufacturing with Enterprise Asset Management

Every manufacturer has to deal with asset management and unfortunately, it’s an area...

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Dynaway EAM software in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Asset Management)

EG-owned Dynaway headquartered in Aalborg has done it before: sold a piece of software...

AXUG Summit in Phoenix

User Group Summit in Phoenix was a blast! Many thanks to our customers, partners and...

Transform first-line worker asset management

Today’s first-line manufacturing workers have more on their plates managing and...

[CASE STORY] Kent Corporation

Dynaway EAM reduces reactive work orders by two-thirds – and counting – at Kent...

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EAM Deployment Methods

The need to be a good administrator of assets is not a new concept for businesses. For...

Integration Points

The Dynaway Enterprise Asset Management solution is BUILT-IN, not bolted on! We...

Planning board module

The planning board module for Microsoft Asset Management in Dynamics 365 Finance &...

Mobile work order execution

The Mobile EAM Client is a comprehensive offline capable client that supports a wide...

Kanban board for Work Orders

The Kanban board is used for handling and completing work orders within teams on the EAM...

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Maintenance Strategies

Maintenance Strategies Four common types of maintenance strategies are corrective,...

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