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.,,
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Reliability Training
Any real sense of reliability training returning the greatest possible value must be based upon the needs of the business and the future growth and technology, extending to every individual and department. Reliability training must not be conceived as something to improve the skills of the lowest technician but to improve the skills of every technician.
- Joey Cantrell
- Constellium Muscle Shoals
What is the Impact of Automation on Skilled Trades
In a few buildings in Manhattan I’ve boarded and have had elevator operators who ask for your floor and perform some manual operations. However, when you step into an average modern passenger elevator you push a button and off you go. In an effort to reduce waiting times and delays, there are systems where you declare your floor and are assigned an elevator.
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
Planner Justification
Justifying a planner position can be difficult. George Williams describes some math you can use to convince management that this position is necessary...
- George Williams
- ReliabilityX
Teamwork Delivers Superior Results
There’s an old saying that “two heads are better than one”. Teamwork has been proven time and again to produce superior results. It is the basis for many successful methods like RCM, PMO, RCFA...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Executive Level Education in Asset Management Is an Urgent Need!
For an organization to be successful, assets must generate both financial and non-financial value, but it is the operational use of the assets that creates economic value. Therefore, asset-dependent organizations will not be successful without alignment of the various operational functions with each other and with financial functions across the asset’s life cycle.
- Suzane Greeman
- Greeman Asset Management Solutions
Business Cases for Asset Management
Your finance people speak in terms of revenue, costs, return on investments. They see things as figures and financial statements. Somehow they need to translate your operational or functional benefits into dollars in order to truly support your ideas...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Why Other People Quitting Their Jobs Matters To You
The latest jobs reports have come in and the findings have an impact on how you hire, how you invest in your current team and how you plan for your future.....
- Kristin McLane
- CIMx
How The Shifting Workforce Affects Your Plant and How to Move Forward
Data analysis shows that America is losing its skilled, competent workforce due the retiring baby boomer generation. This will create an employee vacuum in the workforce that only the 79 million Gen Yers can fill, increasing the demand and completion for Gen Y employees...
- Daryl Brister
- Shea Capability & Compliance Solutions