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...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jul 18, 2024 | Education, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Planning and Scheduling, Reliability
The reality: Savings in work execution can easily be 30 to 60% of what you are spending today! That’s less labor, less overtime, less contracting, less consumption of parts and materials, less spend on delivery logistics, and less procurement activity. If your...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 8, 2024
Technology is advancing by leaps and bounds and maintenance has plenty of opportunity to take advantage of these advances. One of the first is Maintenance Job Planning. This tedious task requires detailed knowledge and experience of the work being planned. It takes...