IMC is set to revolutionize how we think about asset management. Happening in Marco Island, Dec 16th - 19th 2024

IMC is set to revolutionize how we think about asset management. Happening in Marco Island, Dec 16th - 19th 2024

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10 Reasons Why You Should Audit Your Vibration Monitoring Program NOW!

If you are currently running a vibration monitoring program in-house or outsourcing it to a consultant, before you potentially throw any more money in the toilet, you really need to audit your vibration monitoring program and ask yourself if you are getting any value out of it.

7 Leadership Takeaways From The Battlefield To The Boardroom

Leadership requires a keen understanding of the operating environment, the social aptitude and emotional intelligence to communicate that awareness to the rest of the team effectively, and the operational know-how of turning strategy into execution.

Adapting to Being a Better Leader

by Dan Pontefract

When thinking of IBM and Xerox, one tends to think of paradoxical leadership. In the blue corner, we have a company - and a leadership model - that superbly enacted the attribute of adapting. In the red corner, we have a company that was highly innovative and thought-leading, yet for a period of time didn't possess the adapting attribute and suffered for years thereafter as a result.

SALVO Project: Scottish Water

Determining and Proving Which Projects or Maintenance or Asset Replacement Tasks Are Really Worthwhile and When

by Bill Reekie, Karen Whitehall and Andy Hunt

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9 Deadly Diseases of Ineffective Leadership

Although playfully labeled, the bad habits that cause these deadly leadership diseases are real to anyone experiencing them. By recognizing the habits that cause these diseases you will be better prepared to prevent them from happening to you. Luckily, if you or someone you know has contracted one of these diseases there are cures for each one.

Cost of Change, and Why Planning Matters

For most products (other than software-only products), any change from the original intent during development costs money (and extends schedule), and the cost of any particular change (along with the time impact caused by the change) increases with time . This increase in cost and schedule may not intuitively obvious, and as such may obfuscate the real reason that proper product development planning is so critical to the success of the product development.

Q&A with two Industry Leaders: Nissan North America

THE POWER COMES FROM INSIDE

This simple phrase familiar to every Nissan employee conveys a powerful truth. Any company is only as strong as the people who bring it to life. Companies do not create products, deliver services or solve problems; people do.

The Critical Success Factors for Asset Management Services

Management periodicals are unanimous in advocating the integration of services into core product offerings. Servitization is the term for these integrated packages of client-focused combinations of products, services, support, self-service and knowledge. 1 Historically, most of a product's value was added during the production process, which transformed raw material to a useful product. Today, value comes from technological improvement, styling, branding and other attributes that only services can create. 2, 3, 4

What You Need to Know When Upgrading Power Transformers

If your transformers are 10-15 years old, now is the time to take proactive steps to save utility costs and prevent power outages.

MRO Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

by: Brian Oxenham

Currently, there is considerable excitement and growth in the fields of data analytics and business intelligence (BI). This article serves as a primer, to inform and explain their relevance in the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) domain and to illustrate some of the potential opportunities.

Why TEEP (Total Effective Equipment Performance)?

by Doug Plucknette

Understanding where to apply reliability measures is a foundational element of reliability engineering. If you want to improve a process, you need to understand the present level of reliability, where the losses or deficiencies are located and what you can do to reduce or eliminate these losses. One of the biggest problems regarding reliability measures is there are so many of them, so much so that they have begun to overlap, adding further confusion to those who are in the process of learning and applying the measures.

3 Reasons Why Executives Should Keep an Eye on Machine Intelligence

by: Henning Anthonsen

Sometimes an innovation comes along, that deserves the attention of executives in multiple sectors and industries. In this case, the innovator is not a single person or company. Rather, the innovators are a group of well known leading, global brands: Google, Facebook, IBM, Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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