The process of standardizing asset hierarchies to achieve a consistent and governed enterprise asset structure.
Hierarchy Normalization is the systematic process of reviewing, restructuring and standardizing equipment and functional location hierarchies so that assets are represented consistently across engineering, maintenance and operational systems. The process eliminates duplicate structures, inconsistent naming conventions and non-standard parent-child relationships to improve data quality and interoperability.
Hierarchy Normalization improves asset visibility, reporting, maintenance planning and system integration by establishing a consistent enterprise asset hierarchy.
Hierarchy normalization projects often accompany system migrations, digital transformation initiatives and master data improvement programs, particularly when consolidating information from multiple legacy systems.
Hierarchy Normalization focuses on the structure and relationships between assets, whereas data cleansing primarily addresses the quality and consistency of individual asset attributes.
Asset Information Management; Master Data Management; Digital Engineering.
Enterprise asset management.; SAP.; Asset master data.; Digital transformation.; Data governance.
IEC 81346; ISO 14224
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