by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 29, 2025 | Management Insights, Planning and Scheduling
Today’s Gremlin – “Assumptions” can get a planner or a supervisor into a lot of trouble. You might be very knowledgeable and have great faith in your trades-persons, but assuming they know what you know, can be dangerous. There’s always...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 27, 2025 | Business Case & Finance, Education, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Reliability, UPTIME
Today’s Gremlin – “Perfectionist”, is often a planner or an engineer. This Gremlin holds himself or herself to extremely high, pretty much unattainable, standards. They cannot be found to be wrong by anyone. Perfectionists go to great lengths...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 24, 2025 | Business Case & Finance, Education, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Reliability, UPTIME
Today’s Gremlin – “No plan needed”, shows up even where there are planners. This gremlin is comfortable creating maintenance work schedules that are little more than wishful thinking! Plans describe what work must be done, how it should be done...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Nov 20, 2024 | Executive Insights, Risk Management
Is your project ready for operations when you want to start up? Can you commission and start up with ease and expect to reach full and steady production quickly? Or is your experience with project start ups more chaotic? Chaos is natural Conceptually, entropy is a...
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...
