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Data integrity in the power and utilities industry

Can you reduce risk by increasing the integrity of your physical asset records?

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Can you reduce risk by increasing the integrity of your physical asset records?

Following a series of high-profile accidents, asset maintenance is under greater regulatory scrutiny. Boards and other senior executives must understand the risks involved and ensure they are addressed.

Most utilities need to deal with significant gaps in their historical inspection and maintenance data. Utilities lack good controls around assets greater than 10 years old. Current information is often plagued with poor integrity.

Many companies are implementing new technologies designed to improve the quality of data on physical assets. But those won’t help if the historic information is bad. New systems, processes and procedures don’t fix the underlying data, which simply migrates to the new IT environment, posing excessive and unwanted risk.

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Find the gaps in your infrastructure records

Find the gaps in your infrastructure records

Ask yourself two fundamental questions to uncover the errors and omissions in your historic data that could put you at risk for penalties, fines and liabilities.


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