“Wrench Time” – Why the “FEAR” to Measure Maintenance Productivity?
by José Wagner Braidotti Jr. The best results of maintenance practices carried out in enterprises critically depend on the efforts of maintenance staff to ensure
Maintenance Management
Optimizing your Shutdown Program in 5 Steps
by Greg Gustafson Manufacturing facilities know downtime is money. Every hour you are offline for a shutdown is costly from both lost revenue and cost
7 Ways Leaders Fail
7 Ways Leaders Fail Gregory Alford To mangle a 270-year-old sonnet written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning—How do we dislike our bosses? Let us count the
Failure Teaches Success
By R. Keith Mobley, Principal SME, Life Cycle Engineering As appeared in the July 2014 Edition of Reflections on Excellence I absolutely hate to fail, but
Leadership in Maintenance Weekly/Daily Operations and Maintenance Meetings
by Torbjörn Idhammar Daily and weekly meetings between operations and maintenance are crucial in taking the efficiency of your daily maintenance to a higher level.
The New Productivity Challenge
by Peter F. Drucker Harvard Business Review The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the world is to raise the productivity
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail John P. Kotter, Harvard Business Review Over the past decade, I have watched more than 100 companies try to
Creating Reliable Equipment Information
by Brian Moore Deficiencies in the integrity of equipment data and difficulties in accessing this data are costing asset-intensive companies millions of dollars a year
The ‘Maintenance Crisis’ & Innovations that are Changing it
by Ashley Halligan Property Management Analyst, Software Advice A couple months ago, I wrote an article about the top five careers in facility management. I
