Management Insights

Uptime Insights – 3 – Work Management

by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 26, 2020

Reliability depends on the right maintenance being done the right way, and at the right times. At...

Uptime Insights – 2 – People and teamwork

by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 17, 2020

All organizations are made up of individuals. Invariably they reflect each other - the...

Uptime Insights – 1 – Improvement Strategy

by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 10, 2020

Reliable operations are far less expensive to maintain and operate and they produce more...

Entropy and Economics – Part 2

by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 20, 2020

Entropy and economics, like entropy and maintenance, are related. In part 1 there is a simple 3...

Entropy Fundamentals for more Uptime – Part 1

by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 17, 2020

Entropy fundamentals for uptime help us understand the relationship between the energy invested in design, operation, and maintenance to achieving that low level of operational chaos, entropy, that costs our business so much in lost value.

Asset Management in Public and Private Sectors

by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 15, 2020

Asset Management in Public and Private Sectors have some similarities and some contrasts. Most of...

Reliability Fundamentals Online

by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 14, 2020

Conscious Asset provides a free introduction webinar to our reliability program entitled “Why Is Reliability Important?”. This webinar is a great way to learn the benefits of developing a reliability program and how it can help you. This webinar goes over important aspects about reliability to help you create your own program. Topics covered in the webinar include:…

We want it now and we want it cheap

by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 14, 2020

We want it now and we want it cheap. That could be a mantra for many of today’s businesses. There is relentless competition and our financial markets demand short term solutions to short term problems. Long term sustainable benefits are secondary.