EPRI EAM/CMMS Implementation & Utilization Guide

Nexus Global collaborated with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), member utilities, and industry partners to produce the Enterprise Asset Management Technical Guide: Implementation & Utilization. The guide aligns strategy, data standards, and work management practices so EAM/CMMS platforms deliver measurable value—not just software go‑lives.

Why EPRI Published This Guide (Close the Gap Between Promise and Value)

Many programs stall after go‑live due to disconnects between strategy, data, and work execution. The guide provides practices to close that gap.

Despite the many improvements and advancements in Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and EAM software, asset-intensive organizations still face fundamental challenges with their respective deployments. EPRI has identified this theme and the market’s need for a best-practice guideline to enable organizations to select an EAM system, prepare for a successful deployment, configure, and optimize their applicable configurations to thereby achieve higher return rates on their EAM investments.

Who It’s For (Utilities and Asset‑Intensive Organizations)

Electric utilities, generation & transmission co‑ops, water/wastewater, transportation, and other asset‑intensive sectors.

What the Guide Covers

Strategy & Governance

Roles, decision rights, value case, and adoption plan.

Data Standards

Asset hierarchy, equipment classes/attributes, and standardized work/failure/cause codes with validation.

Work Management

Planning/scheduling cadence, standard job plans, readiness gates, and closeout discipline.

Adoption & Change Management

Training, communication, and leader standard work to sustain usage.

• To learn more and access the Enterprise Asset Management Guide: Implementation and Utilization, visit https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002021295.

How Nexus Global Contributed (Utilization Focus)

Guidance that links EAM strategy and data standards to planning, scheduling, and closeout so the system is used to run the business.

“At Nexus Global, we have seen these challenges in action repeatedly across the ecosystem within the utilities industry and beyond,” states Chuma Chukwurah, Senior Director of APM Solutions at Nexus Global. “Having partnered with our clients, we have come to an understanding of the major pain points, disconnects between the promise and the delivery, and how to reconcile those two states into a final product that serves and drives the objectives of the organizations.”

To complete the project, Nexus Global worked with EPRI, its members, and other industry research organizations. Nexus Global provided guidance on EAM/CMMS Utilization and its dependence on proper implementation of the technical guide to the applicable systems. With the collaborative effort proving successful, the Enterprise Asset Management Technical Guide: Implementation and Utilization was published.

How to Use the Guide (Checklist + Maturity Lens)

• Confirm value case & governance

• Publish hierarchy + class/attribute model

• Normalize work/failure/cause codes

• Standardize job plans & readiness gates

• Enforce closeout coding & audits

• Review KPIs monthly; update standards quarterly

“We are honored to work with EPRI and its members on developing this technical guide that will enable EPRI members and all asset-intensive organizations in utilities and beyond to avoid fundamental challenges with EAM/CMMS deployments and utilization,” concludes Chuma Chukwurah. “Avoiding these challenges will allow organizations to realize the true value, potential, return on net asset (RoNA) value, return on investment (ROI), and mission-specific return of a proper EAM deployment and utilization towards an Asset Performance Management (APM) Program.”

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Contacts:
Chuma Chukwurah
Nexus Global
403.389.9873 
chuma@nexusglobal.com

Aimee Mills
EPRI Aimee Mills
705.519.7486
amills@epri.com