Many Asset Management projects have failed to achieve the desired outcome, simply because the critical (people) resources expected to work on the new process/technology/culture change did not feel compelled to comply and internalize the change into a personal habit. Employee resistance to change has crushed many technically sound transformations. Effecting change in an enterprise
What will be the evolution of your Asset Risk and Reliability culture? Companies purchase assets to create ‘value’. This ‘value’ is why the enterprise strategically exists in their market. Asset Management has always been about leveraging people, process and technology to keep an organization’s assets running. That certainly is true when working to ensure
What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) today? TPM can be foundationally called - ‘Reliability’ by Operator! Today - It is often a lost cultural focus in many North American operations. Leadership can help this! Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a highly powerful working philosophy and part of an organization’s culture for managing maintenance, operations
Executing Asset Management Maintenance is fundamentally a parts and labour business. It is most often difficult to do maintenance of mechanical assets efficiently without the required parts close by. Typically executing maintenance is 40% labour costs, 40% parts related costs (usage and management) and 20% other support costs such as infrastructure and
What is the Responsibility of an Asset Manager? There have been many views shared about the value of an asset in an asset intensive organization but perhaps the simplest view is to accept that each asset fundamentally was acquired to help produce ‘value’ in the enterprise. Operations typically would be expected to leverage the
