Some of you reading this are quite happy in your present role, and you are satisfied with doing a good job and being paid fairly for that.

Some of you have aspirations to proceed to management, and then maybe to executive management, using reliability as a method to project your value into the organization.

And some of you, a small percentage of the people reading this, want to change the world. Some of us, not just you, are not satisfied until they have seen their influence written across major organizations throughout the world. And in today's labor market and economy, the ...

In the next few weeks I hope to finally submit my latest manuscript for a book that I have been working on across several continents, several years, and several projects. It has been an exhausting and exhilarating experience. I think it's pretty good.

It is called Lean Strategies for Asset Reliability, and as the title suggests the central theme is Lean M ...

As a sideline, I tend to have a lot of sidelines, I do a lot of data modeling using various graphing tools. This is because I am basically a very boring person. However - I have stumbled upon something very intriguing coming out of the Energy Information Administration. This department publishes the official government energy information for the USA.

Have a look at this motion chart below.

As the discipline of physical asset management matures we are seeing the subtle art of Streamlined RCM finally starting to recede.

And good riddance.

I am just back from an end of analysis presentation by a significant client of mine in the chemicals industry. They performed a rigorous analysis on a critical asset. Generally I don't like critical asset analyses because the potential for tangible benefits is reduced... but these guys did me proud today!

Their asset had previously been analyzed by a company using a relatively popular streamlined approach.

The result... Redu ...

Standardizing their asset maintenance and reliability initiatives across the organization, implementing RCM and condition based approaches, and implementing mobile working with their asset maintenance programs. This is according to the latest research published by the Aberdeen Group in their June report on Enterprise Asset Management.

Regardless of any crush on resources 65% of best in class manufacturers are implementing reliability as a means of maximizing their return on assets, with 61% doing it to reduce the risks of failure of critical assets.

Meanwhil ...

Every single time I go to one of the many conferences around the place, I hear some exalted speaker telling everybody something that is dead wrong!

This has really grated me for a long time so I thought I would release it here in a series called "Change Begins in the Mind"

For decades we have all seen the statements out there.  Asset care, asset preservation, asset health, equipment maitnenance even. All of these terms and all of the thinking that they foster, is based around a focus on what assets are, and on the prevention of failure.

Three decades of RCM have taught indu ...

I have been thinking a lot recently about implementation and execution. Actually it is part of the drive for my next book Asset Resource Planning, which looks at what to do after starting an RCM/ERP/TPM/whatever implementation program.

After a few years of studying this theme, both in practice and through published studies, a few things have really started to jump out at me. Lets look beyond the obvious statements related to corporate support, leadership and funding for a moment to get to some of the core reasons why projects fail.

1) The Work Matters! It re ...

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Change ... continuous and unrelenting change ... is a dramatic part of the lives of every person on the planet today.

Regardless of your personal preferences, we are battered with pressures to continually change ... our careers, our companies, our work processes and even our lives! And here's the bad news: If you work in maintenance or reliability then it is a lot worse!

As a growing and new managerial discipline, our area has been one of the main "bene ...