Great Western Railway (GWR) is train operating company (TOC) operating under U.K. Government franchise that is awarded every four years and utilizes network rail infrastructure - depots, track and stations. Plant and Facilities Maintenance is an essential team, supporting GWR in delivering the aim/vision, "Railway of the Future." To practice asset management, our assets needed to be identified, ranked, assessed, managed and knowledge extracted.
Through a close partnering relationship between Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), we have been able to achieve significant results and improvements on our maintenance and calibration program at our Syracuse, New York biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Back in 2018, it was taking us over 70 days on average to complete corrective work orders which was creating safety and cGMP risk for our facility.
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) is an organization providing wastewater collection and treatment services for nearly 500,000 residents and 3,000 businesses in Contra Costa County. Central San started its reliability journey in 2014 with the creation of an Asset Management Plan and Asset Management Steering committee, and a subsequent development of an Asset Management Policy and a comprehensive Strategic Plan.
This presentation describes an organization’s desire to improve an aspect of their asset management program via implementation of a new M&RE organizational structure, and how a staged approach was developed to meet this need. The information in this presentation is relevant to anyone who wants to begin, or who is already underway with, a structured organizational change activity.
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