Asset hierarchies and classifications influence how planners, analysts and maintenance teams find information, compare performance and use system data.
When those structures no longer reflect the operation, each team must reconcile the differences before the information can support a decision.
Axient is TEAM’s purpose-built technology for auditing, building and integrating EAM and CMMS master data. It gives your team and our consultants a shared visual environment in which to examine the existing structure, agree revisions and retain the connection to the source information.
Axient works alongside the systems your organisation already uses. The work starts with the decisions and workflows that the data must support, then defines the hierarchy, classifications and records required.
Asset information changes over the life of an operation. Organisations replace systems, acquire businesses and develop different recording practices across sites. A hierarchy built years ago can accumulate duplicate records or inconsistent classifications. It may also stop matching how people use the information.
When sites record the same asset, event or failure differently, cross-site comparison becomes less reliable. Planners, analysts and data teams must reconcile those differences before they can use the information, while analysis based on the same records may still require manual checking.
A system migration can carry those inconsistencies directly into the new environment.
TEAM works with your organisation to establish how people will use the asset information and which decisions and workflows depend on it. We then work back to the hierarchy, classifications and records required to support them.
Axient lays out the current hierarchy, identified problems and proposed revisions in one shared visual environment. Your team and our consultants can examine the structure as a whole and work through changes together. Each proposed revision remains connected to its source information. This keeps the current data and target structure available for comparison throughout the review.
Where asset information supports decisions across the lifecycle, TEAM links the structure and governance requirements to organisational objectives and assigned accountabilities. This approach is consistent with the principles of ISO 55001:2024.
An established hierarchy may contain duplicate records, inconsistent classifications or structures that no longer reflect current work. TEAM reviews the hierarchy with your organisation in Axient and develops revisions around its intended use. Where sites need a common basis, the agreed structure supports more consistent reporting and comparison.
A system migration can reproduce existing data problems when the organisation transfers the hierarchy and classifications unchanged. TEAM reviews and reorganises the master data before migration, then maps the records to the target structure required by the new environment.
An acquired operation may record and classify assets differently from the rest of the organisation. Axient lays out the structures for comparison so TEAM and your organisation can agree how to organise the acquired data alongside the information already in use.
For a greenfield operation, TEAM develops the asset hierarchy and classifications with the people who will use them. Your team can review the proposed structure in Axient before the organisation loads it into the EAM or CMMS.
The agreed hierarchy, classifications and mapping rules form the basis for updating or loading master data into the organisation’s EAM or CMMS.
Axient keeps each proposed change connected to the source information and review decision. TEAM uses this traceable record to prepare the data for the target structure and check it before integration.
The organisation’s core platform remains where teams use and maintain the master data. Axient provides the review and data preparation environment required before the revised structure reaches that system.
Axient lays out the existing hierarchy, records and classifications in a visual environment. The review identifies issues against their intended use.
TEAM and the relevant users develop the target hierarchy, classifications and mappings. Axient keeps each change connected to the source information throughout the review.
TEAM organises the master data around the agreed EAM or CMMS structure and documents the mapping decisions and review requirements for the system update, migration or integration.
If your organisation needs to review, build or integrate an asset hierarchy or classifications, TEAM can define the required work and apply Axient to the agreed scope.
