EAM consulting: independent asset management and CMMS software selection
Asset management starts long before maintenance. It starts with choosing the right technology. We help organizations define, evaluate, and select the EAM that best fits their operational reality.
What does an independent EAM consultant do?
They help the company decide which maintenance and asset management software it needs — a CMMS, an EAM, or the ERP's maintenance module — before signing with a vendor. At Cyrrus that decision starts from your assets' operational reality, with criteria defined before seeing any product and no manufacturer commissions.
Selection
Builds the operational requirements map and the technical evaluation matrix, compares vendors, and calculates lifecycle total cost of ownership.
Industry
Evaluates the vendor's real experience in your industry — manufacturing, energy, mining, or transportation — not just generic platform capability.
Timing
As a reference, the CIRA Method's Identify phase typically takes 6 to 12 weeks, from the strategic kickoff through contracting support.
When assets become a source of uncertainty
- 01
Reactive maintenance
Assets get serviced after they've already failed, not before.
- 02
Scattered information
Maintenance history lives in physical logs or loose files.
- 03
Assets without traceability
No clear visibility of where each asset is or what condition it's in.
- 04
Costs hard to control
Maintenance and spare-parts spending can't be accurately attributed.
- 05
Unplanned downtime
Failures that stop the operation with no prior warning.
- 06
Disconnected spare-parts inventory
Procurement doesn't know what parts are available before issuing an order.
Poor visibility into asset lifecycle doesn't just cost in maintenance — it costs in stopped operations.
An EAM has to fit the operational reality of the assets
The need for an EAM looks different in manufacturing, energy, utilities, infrastructure, mining, transportation, or oil & gas.
The EAM with the most features isn't necessarily the best EAM for a given organization.
We select the platform based on your assets' lifecycle
We evaluate the EAM beyond maintenance
01Functional
Does it cover asset management, work orders, planning, and spare-parts inventory?
02Technical
Does it integrate with the ERP and support IoT for real-time monitoring?
03Economic
What's the total cost of ownership versus the reduction in unplanned downtime?
04Strategic
Does it support predictive maintenance and analytics to anticipate failures?
05Vendor
Does it have real experience in the organization's specific industry?
06Adoption
Will the field maintenance team actually use it, or default back to paper?
A solution that connects assets, operations, and the business
- Operational requirements map
- Technical evaluation matrix
- Vendor comparison
- Lifecycle TCO
- Operational risk analysis
- Recommendation
- Implementation roadmap
A technology recommendation backed by operational, technical, economic, and strategic requirements — not just maintenance features.
The decision doesn't end at the recommendation
"We don't recommend technology off a catalog. Our job isn't to sell a particular platform. We evaluate the available alternatives and build a recommendation based on each organization's needs, priorities, and context. 100% technology-agnostic."
This is what it looks like when the decision does reach execution.
"Thanks to Cyrrus's support we were able to dream it and do it, and we're ready for the next dream."
92 requirements · ERP and CRM live in 8 months
"We decided to work with Cyrrus because it offered us a path to world-class best practices." Today they have a platform that lets them see information live and better understand what's happening with their customers.
From Excel sheets to live customer data
"It's not just an ERP change — it's an organization-wide change management process."
Change management from the planning stage
"We came to Cyrrus for something that was strategic and vital for us: keeping our people's quality of life during the pandemic."
−36% high ergonomic risks in one month
Frequently asked questions
When maintenance is reactive and assets get serviced after they've already failed, when maintenance history lives in physical logs or loose files, when there's unplanned downtime with no prior warning, or when procurement doesn't know what parts are available before issuing an order.
A CMMS manages maintenance tasks: work orders, spare parts, and scheduling. An EAM covers the asset's whole lifecycle, including capital planning, risk, and performance. We explain it in more detail in our CMMS and EAM software guide.
As a reference, the CIRA method's Identify phase typically takes 6 to 12 weeks, from the strategic kickoff through contracting support.
Yes — the Vendor criterion includes evaluating real experience in industries like manufacturing, energy, mining, or transportation, not just generic platform capability.
It is defined by the size of the asset base, the number of plants or sites, and maintenance complexity. Advisory costs a fraction of the license plus implementation, and keeps that investment from landing on a platform your operation cannot sustain.
Coverage of the maintenance cycle you actually run (preventive, predictive, corrective), field and offline capability, integration with the ERP and with sensors or SCADA, vendor experience in your specific industry, total cost of ownership, and ease of adoption by plant personnel.
Because in asset management the gap between what a demo promises and what the operation supports in the field can be wide. With no commission from any manufacturer, we evaluate that gap against criteria defined before seeing any product.
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