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Welcome to the Conscious Asset Management Blog "Uptime" By James V. Reyes-Picknell, CMRP, P.Eng. This is one of two blogs that Jim authors. Click here for his other blog on "A World Without Enemies."
Here Jim shares his thoughts on matters of interest in the fields of industrial maintenance and reliability management. Some of these entries expand on what is already published in "Uptime, Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management" (2nd edition) by John Campbell (d) and James Reyes-Picknell. Others are new topics of current interest to maintenance and reliability professionals, physical asset managers and executives. Please join into the discussion and share your thoughts. We all gain through sharing openly in this sort of knowledge based community of interest.
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The world of asset management is moving well ahead of the medical profession when it comes to taking care of those physical assets we are entrusted with. We have the knowledge of proactive - preventive, predictive and detective methods in addition to all the diagnostic tools we have. We aren't using them all yet, but many of us are headed that way. Sadly it can't be said that...
There's some old advice to people seeking jobs and trying to move up the corporate ladder - dress for success. The dress reflects the person. Look successful, people will see you that way and they'll give you the chance you need to be successful. People like to go with a winner so they support those who appear successful.
Of course in our field of maintenance and as...
Care of your health is a form of maintenance. You are sustaining an existing state of health. Maintenance is all about sustaining an existing state: in the case of your body, your mind, your spirit and emotions, the ability of those aspects of yourself to provide you with a meaningful, happy existence. If you are changing the state of health you are either improving it, ...
If you know me (James Reyes-Picknell) and the services I provide you'll know that I'm a major proponent of using facilitated approaches. A major hurdle to managing any change, any improvement or any project is getting the buy-in of your people. After all it's they who make it happen for you. If they don't believe in it, then it won't happen quite as you'd like.
General Geo...
Those of you who know me personally know that I'm into self-development and expanding my own conscious awareness of choices I make. I'm sharing some of that here but there's more to it that goes well beyond the field of Physical Asset Management. Check out my new blog here: A world without enemies.
You'll gain some insight into our Conscious MethodTM. You'll also see...
In Sep 2006 a highway overpass collapsed in Montreal. Five died, six were injured. It had been designed in 1969. In 1992 and in 2004 it's deterioration was noted, but nothing was done. In the province of Quebec alone, some 12,000 bridges need major repair.
In Aug 2007 a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. Dozens of cars and their occupants were plun...
Companies are missing the boat. They are full of talent people who do not operate at their full potential. Why? Often, very talented people are stifled by the very part of the organization within which they work - their department (silo). Those silos operate to perform specific, usually well defined functions. People within them learn how to do that one function, ...
Many companies are faced with a challenge - great ideas that go nowhere. Eventually the ideas dry up because everyone knows they'll go nowhere - so why bother?
There are several categories of reasons that lead to this. They all boil down to one - the organization isn't fully choosing the change. Here are the categories:
Corporate Beliefs: These can be signi...
We are located in a country that is very sadly dragging its heals on environmental stewardship. Canada may have a squeaky clean image but the reality is different. Like our American neighbors to the south we are energy hogs. To make matters worse, we have even reneged on our Kyoto commitments - probably a political act to appease a sitting lame-duck US president with extensiv...
There is no shortage of companies saying they are putting safety first and claiming to be contributing as good stewards of our environment. Unfortunately we find that all too often those are nice words - probably conjured up by marketing departments. By-and-large those companies pay only lip-service to the words and fail to follow up with action. There is a clear cut relation...
Archived Blog Entries:
» Do not work - play!
» Are your proactive efforts really working?
» Are you a slave to the urgent?
» Look at yourself first!
» Are Throwaway Factories A Threat
» What is the biggest change coming?
» Let me ask, why?
» Having trouble with lean?
» Maintenance Management Assessments - Do you need them?
» Agility and speed
» Making a new choice
» A business case for change
» What does maintenance mean to you?
» Command and Control vs. Command
» Knowledge Capture
» 'Asset Management' - Where we are headed
» Intensity, Prosperity and Working Smarter
» Data, Information, Knowledge or Wisdom
» Fear Holds Us Back
» Maintenance and Finance - a similar role!
» Why wait until the pain is unbearable?
» You're about to die - what do you do next?
» What is 'best practice'? Should you follow a benchmark?
» Is it data, information or knowledge? Make sure you create value.
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