by James Reyes-Picknell | Oct 8, 2024 | Executive Insights
Few aspects of your operations impact the whole business as much as maintenance. Did you know that you can achieve: 10 – 20% maintenance cost reductions, up to 20% energy savings in all electrical driven equipment, up to 60% reduction in wasted maintenance efforts,...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Sep 18, 2024 | Maintenance Tactics, Management Insights, Planning and Scheduling, Technology, UPTIME
Are you having trouble producing good quality maintenance job plans? Is your “standard job” plan library nearly empty? Is your planned work running below 65% (bottom quartile)? Note: scheduling without a plan, isn’t planned, and failing to plan is...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 26, 2024 | Maintenance Tactics, Management Insights, Reliability, Shutdowns, UPTIME, Video
“Inspect and repair as required” are well intentioned but make up what is usually an ill-informed instruction to maintenance workers. On 10 April 2024, our Principal Consultant, James Reyes-Picknell, delivered a 1 hour “lunch and learn” webinar...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 25, 2024 | Technology, UPTIME
In April 2024, Fracttal Tech S.A. featured our Principal Consultant, James Reyes-Picknell, delivering a seminar on the future of maintenance using the Industrial Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The online seminar, presented in English...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 26, 2024
A lot of work orders that say “inspect and repair as required” and they usually lead to scope creep in both shutdowns and day-to-day maintenance efforts. Many think they are doing a form of preventive maintenance – they are not. The scope of what...
