BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - March 9, 2011) - A new report by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
Aberdeen used the following four key performance criteria to distinguish the leaders, with top performers achieving the following results:
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91% Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
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3% unscheduled asset downtime
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8% reduction in maintenance cost year-over-year
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Over achieve return on assets targets by +11%
"The volatility in demand, huge investments in capital assets, and the complex nature of operations are all the issues that make companies operating in asset intensive industries very unique," explains Mehul Shah, Research analyst, Aberdeen Group. "Operational Risk Management strategies will enable companies to better understand the top risks in their operations and establish strategies and business processes to visualize, quantify, prioritize, and mitigate these risks. This new research has found that leading companies are two times as likely to invest in an asset performance solution which is tightly integrated to an enterprise asset management solution to provide in depth information about people, process and asset risks to decision makers. This has enabled these top performers to improve predictability towards operational risks, lower costs and reduce the risk profile of the organization."
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