by James Reyes-Picknell | Jun 3, 2020 | Asset Management, Business Case & Finance, Reliability, Risk Management, Strategy, UPTIME
Maintenance and reliability maturity provides an understanding of both how well we do maintenance and how good is our maintenance program. One delivers a major business result, the other is a big part of how you get there. Doing maintenance with precision and care, so...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 21, 2020 | Change Management, UPTIME
Do you really need an assessment? Will it help, or will it create problems? Your options are self-assessment, guided self-assessment, a lengthy and detailed assessment by a third-party consultant, and rapid assessment by a subject matter expert. Not knowing what you...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 14, 2020 | Asset Management, Change Management, Reliability, UPTIME
Entropy and maintenance are more related than you might think. What happens in maintenance and many operations can be explained with this simple thermodynamic concept. Entropy is a concept that represents chaos and degradation. It occurs naturally in any physical...
by James Reyes-Picknell | May 4, 2020 | Change Management, Processes, UPTIME
Business processes are often talked about, yet not well understood. The big problem with them is that too few people know what the whole process actually should be. Whenever you are following a set of steps to achieve some goal you are following a process. Sometimes...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 25, 2020 | Technology, UPTIME
Maintenance and Reliability improvement are keys to Operational Excellence – without them, you’ll suffer high costs and reduced outputs. This interview by Ryan Chan of UpKeep gives insight into what Uptime is, how it works towards Maintenance and...
