by James Reyes-Picknell | Jun 3, 2021 | Reliability, UPTIME
Do you have a reliability department, a maintenance department, or a repair department? Do you avoid failures? Do you avoid or mitigate their consequences? Or do you wait for things to go wrong, then fix them? Repairs are all about fixing what has broken. When...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jun 1, 2021 | Asset Management, Business Case & Finance, Maintenance Tactics
A well-designed maintenance program should eliminate the need to do condition assessments. These assessments are a form of condition monitoring, so why not include them in your proactive maintenance (PM) program? They are carried out to determine the current condition...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 18, 2021 | Business Case & Finance, KPIs & Performance Management, Reliability
Part 3 – What action? Covid put many of our companies into a paralysis-like state. We’ve survived thanks to austerity measures, but we all know that we can’t cut our way to prosperity. As the recovery looms, we can act now to ensure sustained operational efficiency...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 14, 2021 | Business Case & Finance, KPIs & Performance Management, Reliability
Part 2 – You’re not dead. A call to action. Are you ready to ramp back up? Slowing down reduced supply and raised prices. Survival cost-cutting also put our companies into a state of Covid-induced paralysis. Like a person who is paralyzed – vital systems keep working...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 10, 2021 | KPIs & Performance Management, Reliability
Are you ready to ramp back up after your Covid-19 slowdown? Part 1 – Did you fall into the reliability trap? Covid scared us all! Here you can see two Red Pandas with their version of a threatening response. When threatened, we will have one of three reactions –...