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 | Apr 16, 2024 | Executive Insights
If you place a frog in boiling water, it will jump out. If you put it in cool water and gradually heat it up, the frog won’t notice and will boil to death. In the same way, gradual, harmful changes in production operations are difficult to spot. Typically significant...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 17, 2024 | Executive Insights
The hare moves fast with its big hops but tires quickly – like a sprinter, the hare gives it all, then takes a long break to recover. The tortoise is like a long-distance runner at a pace that can be sustained for the long haul. At the end of the race, the tortoise...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Feb 6, 2024 | Business Case & Finance, Executive Insights
Industrial operations that use physical assets for production or service delivery need their assets to run optimally, and cause minimal operational disruptions when they don’t. Spending too little overall, or on doing the wrong things, always backfires. These...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jan 30, 2024 | Assessment, Business Case & Finance, Executive Insights, Management Insights, UPTIME
Businesses often attempt to maximize profits for owners or shareholders by taking measures to reduce costs. A reactive approach to plant and equipment breakdowns is very costly, and it reduces outputs. By failing to do what it takes to become proactive, they take...