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Many organisations still struggle to make their maintenance planning and scheduling as effective as it should be. Here are a few tips that will help.

Let's take a detailed look at what a good Strategic Asset Management Plan document may look like for your organisation.

We often hear companies say that people are their best asset. Why is it that the sum of good people and good systems does not always produce good performance?

Due to significant growth, we are seeking a full-time Consultant to join our Perth team to assist in delivering consulting assignments throughout Australia and overseas. This role would be...

The amount of effort required to implement a revised optimised maintenance program is often underestimated.

Maintenance sits at the heart of any good asset management system. Here are 10 tips to start improving your work management and deliver results.

Before you rush in and cut the maintenance budget, here are a few questions you should ask your maintenance manager (and the risks if you don’t).

Lean maintenance is an approach to help identify and eliminate waste, and deliver bottom line improvements if implemented and managed in the right way.

In this article, we compare the most recent version of ISO 55001, published in 2024, with the previous version, published in 2014. The focus of this comparison is to...

In this article, we compare the most recent version of ISO 55000, published in 2024, with the previous version, published in 2014. The first thing to note is that...

Let's discuss the types of things that an asset management policy should contain, how long it should be, and how to develop one for your organisation.

Let's discuss the essential elements for a successful performance measurement system, and how to motivate your organisation towards higher performance.

How are big data, the internet of things, predictive technologies and predictive analytics impacting on preventive and predictive maintenance activities?

Let's look at arguably the most important document in any asset management system - the plan that captures the actions to be taken on each asset.

In preventive maintenance optimisation, the key objective is to review the current PM program, starting by assembling all of the tasks that it consists of.

Most organisations have some sort of investigation process, ranging from a basic incident report form through to a mature root cause analysis (RCA) process.

Let's compare reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO), and determine which approach is best for you.

This video introduces the PF Interval: one of the core principles that underpins reliability centred maintenance and preventive maintenance program development.

In this short video we give 4 practical tips that can help you to improve the productivity of your maintenance function.

Let's explore some ways in which maintainers and maintenance management can impact on equipment reliability, and some suggestions to improve reliability via better maintenance.

Your asset register is the foundation on which your asset management information systems are built. Here are 5 tips to make sure yours is rock solid.

Let's explore the key ways in which operations management can impact on equipment reliability, and offer some practical suggestions to improve reliability.

Let's explore the communal accountabilities that should be considered in the design phase of an asset life cycle, and the roles that different parts of an organisation play to...

While it is tempting to focus on processes and systems as being at the core of good asset management, the right behaviours and attitudes are also key.

The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) launched version 3 of its “Asset Management Landscape” on June 5, 2024. This article outlines the scope of this document,...

Almost every Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) contains a field where you can set the work order priority, but few define how it is to be used.

As a general rule, we need to be very careful in using punishment as our first and primary response to any safety or reliability incident.

Finance is an integral part of Asset Management. Value can be financial or non-financial, and achieving the balance between these requires coordination across an organisation.

To become a certified ISO 55001 auditor you need to meet the competences outlined in ISO 17021-5:2013 - Part 5: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of asset management...

Let's discuss the vital role that asset management objectives play in the asset management planning process. Without clear asset management objectives, you risk taking your organisation in the wrong...

Let’s explore an approach that will generate a Strategic Asset Management Plan that is useful and usable, using the ISO 55001 and ISO 55002 standards.

In this article, we offer a detailed example of what a good asset management strategy may look like in the context of ISO 55000 and ISO 55001.