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Corporate Counter-Dependency
  • Leadership

Corporate Counter-Dependency: Why This Is a Problem

In psychology there’s a phenomenon known as “counter-dependency”. People with this tendency will refuse help when it is offered and won’t even seek it when confronted with a problem. Organizations that are poorer performers often exhibit this same tendency.,,

Five Minute Facts
  • Implementation Strategy

Planners Help Us Solve the Skills Shortage Problem

Skilled labor is in short supply. Companies are struggling to find talent. Education systems throughout North America have done a poor job of producing ‘job-ready’ graduates. The skills shortage is particularly obvious in maintenance...

Five Minute Facts
  • Data Analytics & IIoT

Myth Busting: We Need Our Old Data

The old system will hold a lot of data, some useful and some not so useful. Some users will want to keep the old data because they are familiar with it and can find their way around in it. Indeed there will be some useful data...

Two Minute Tips
  • Work & Spares

Myth Busting: CMMS Is the Silver Bullet

Technology provides us with some fantastic tools to help us work better, smarter, faster and more efficiently. BUT, it doesn’t help us think any better. We can actually get too dependent on it and our thinking is weakened...

Five Minute Facts
  • Work & Spares

MRO Technology

Many companies have too much of what they don’t need and not enough of what they do. Inventory levels tend to be higher than necessary, resulting in financial loss with working capital tied up to inventory...

10 Minute Talk
  • Implementation Strategy

10 Myths About RCM

Despite its well-documented successes, Reliability Centered Maintenance has always drawn a lot of discussion and controversy.  Much of it is because of a lack of understanding and ‘myths’ generated to discredit RCM as a viable business solution.  Here I will fill in some of those gaps...

Five Minute Facts
  • Asset Strategy

Optimize RCM to Manage Failures Before They Occur

Being proactive with your assets is all about managing failures before they occur. You can reduce or eliminate the consequences of failure by forecasting what is likely to happen and deciding in advance about what to do about it...

Five Minute Facts
  • Implementation Strategy

Myth Busting: Leave Room for Surprises

Many planners and supervisors, particularly from operations, believe we should make allowance to cover any eventuality. The result of that is usually that too much unscheduled time is left “slack” in the schedule...

Five Minute Facts
  • Data Analytics & IIoT

IIoT for Predictive Maintenance and Big Data

IIoT for predictive maintenance enables more extensive monitoring of equipment and processes at a much lower cost than traditional methods and delivers actionable warnings to prevent or minimize the consequences of an impending failure. Where IIoT for predictive maintenance is deployed...

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