Replacing or renovating maintenance IT is probably the least favorite item on a CIO's agenda. MRO activity is messy, full of unpredictable events not easy to automate. It involves many internal departments and external partners whose IT systems must be considered in any update.rnAlways there are the safety and regulatory factors, which require extreme accuracy and proof of both systems and procedures. Further, existing data must be cleaned and converted, a huge job when fleets are old and large. Finally, people must change their roles and alter long-familiar tasks. For all these reasons several major MRO IT projects have run way over budget and beyond schedule, not a record that appeals to CFOs.
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