by James Reyes-Picknell | Nov 27, 2024 | Executive Insights
Why not beat tariffs by lowering costs, and becoming more competitive? It will help in your “home” market, and if you can cut enough, you’ll level the playing field with trading partners. What’s more, if you’ve lowered your costs the...
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 | Jul 30, 2024 | Executive Insights
Up to 68% of all breakdowns can be traced back to a human error of some sort. Slowing down to achieve more is a well known principal in lean manufacturing. If you plant is breaking down often, you are probably running too fast and hard. The risks go up when you push...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Jul 26, 2024 | Executive Insights
You may not realize it yet, but maintenance cost reductions of 20% or more, and production capacity gains are both possible through use of the right maintenance. The costs to achieve can usually be repaid in less than a year. That’s more than a 100% ROI on...
