The concept of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) originated in the IT industry. In the 1980s, when IT began playing an increasingly dominant role at companies, the need arose to professionalize
Over the last few years, we have seen a number of changes in our chosen field. For many years, maintenance was the term used for all stewardship of plant and equipment. Then reliability centered maintenance (RCM) started to take off and this saw the advent of reliability, or to be more correct, the term reliability. There was a plethora of job adverts, articles and presentations at conferences that included the term reliability. The strange thing was that in many cases, the content was no different than when it was called maintenance!
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that it has achieved two international certifications for best-in-class operational standards for its gas operations. PG&E is one of the first utilities in the world to hold both the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 55001: 2014 and Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 55-1: 2008 certifications. The certifications were awarded by the independent, internationally recognized auditor, Lloyd’s Register.
Companies across the globe are responding well to the new ISO 55000 world standard for asset management, according to power-engineering specialist EA Technology.
The report “Facility Management Market by Solutions (CAFM, IWMS, CMMS, BIM, IWMS) & Services - Worldwide Market Forecasts and Analysis (2014-2019)”, defines and segments the Facility Management market into various segments and provides an in-depth analysis and forecasting of revenues. This research report helps to identify the factors driving this market, various restraints, challenges and opportunities impacting it along with the future roadmaps.
eAsset Management Limited (“eAssetM”) today announces the appointment of Len Porter as a Non-Executive Chairman. He will join the Board with effect from 1 May 2014.
Len was Chief Executive at the Rail Safety and Standards Board from 2003 to 2014. He has spent most of his career within the asset management arena in the Oil and Gas, Marine and Rail sectors.
IS BETTER THAN 50 PERCENT accuracy an objective or goal for a condition monitoring program? Do you measure accuracy of recommendations as an output of your program? It is not unusual for paper mills with mature condition monitoring programs staffed by competent, skilled and experienced technicians to achieve over 95 percent accuracy in the prediction of a failure, and somewhat less accuracy, due to lack of knowledge and data, of the recommended corrective action, which for some, is still a whole lot better than flipping a coin. But how about a goal of zero unpredicted failures?
Asset failure prevention takes discipline to process. Doing your part in the process, and not becoming complacent in what you do is, in fact, integral to the process. Managing risk is everyone's
CBS ArcSafe®, a leading manufacturer of remote racking and switching solutions for low- and medium-voltage switchgear, is proud to introduce its remote switch actuator for ABB/Sace Megamax F-Series low-voltage power circuit breakers. Designed for all sizes of ABB/Sace F-series (F1 to F6) circuit breakers with current ratings from 1200-6000A, the CBS ArcSafe® RSA-69A allows technicians to safely close and/or trip breakers outside of the arc-flash hazard boundary without any modification to the breaker.
ARMS Reliability (ARMS) and Copperleaf Technologies are partnering to deliver asset Intensive Industries in the Australian and New Zealand Markets with cutting edge solutions is the area of Asset Investment Planning and Management (AIPM).
A free April 9th webinar will show environmental health and safety managers how to streamline their EHS programs —saving costs and time — by automating key administrative tasks with Microsoft® SharePoint®, a software platform available within most companies and institutions
North Charleston Sewer District Chooses Multifaceted Approach to Optimize Rehabilitation, Decrease Operational Costs, Improve Efficiency and Extend Lifespan of Critical Assets
Blue Mountain Quality Resources announces a new service release (R3 SR3) of its Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager solution. This latest release provides access of the application on mobile devices including Apple® iPad, Microsoft® Surface and Dell® Venue. This new release supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Apple Safari iOS7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 on touch devices.