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Our team will now be working from home, but can still be reached as normal by email or phone. All office phone lines are being diverted to mobile phones.

As concern around COVID-19 continues to grow, we are working hard to ensure the health and well-being of our staff, our community, and our clients.

This is a companion document associated with ISO 55001:2014, the global standard for asset management, that provides guidelines to enable organisations better understand why, and how alignment between these...

Review your preventive maintenance tasks. Commission a PMO process for your plant and equipment. You may be surprised at how much maintenance you don’t need to be doing.

The system was perfect. Everyone knew what to do when a component failed. Everyone knew how to determine where to send the part for repair.... then Bill left.

Let's discuss the challenges that we have observed our clients struggle with as they have implemented their APM solutions, and how to avoid falling for these same traps.

What is an APM system, where does it fit in the Asset Management information system landscape, and what you should hope to achieve through implementation?

AMPEAK, the annual conference of the AM Council, is Australia’s peak conference for asset management. We have put together a list of the key takeaways from this year.

Can you make sense of your asset related data? Can you use this data to optimise your business? Integrating data from the EAM system is not always smooth sailing.

Our summer vacation program is a paid opportunity for engineering students in their penultimate year of study to gain some practical experience, build networks and expand their CVs.

Let's explore the planning process and five of the common improvement opportunities we commonly observe, from supply relations to stakeholders.

Understanding common pitfalls can make your job as a scheduler more productive, and help your organisation to reduce costs and be more effective.

Let's explore some of the “big picture” systemic challenges associated with the overall maintenance planning and scheduling process.

Let's consider how to obtain value in maintenance and reliability improvement projects, and approaches that we can take to estimate value from the improvement.

In this article, we continue our exploration by considering how developments such as big data and predictive analytics are contributing to reliability improvement.

Let's discuss some of the key tools and techniques that can be used to contribute to sound equipment reliability, and where these may be applicable.

Over a 12 week period, Chika will receive valuable exposure to real, meaningful work and some great learning experiences.

Participants scored the course highly, based on the instructor's presentation skill, their ability to engage with them, and knowledge of the subject matter.

We had a thoroughly rewarding day volunteering in the Foodbank warehouse. Foodbank is a conduit between the food industry and the welfare sector, distributing food to the needy.

The Perth Assetivity Team enjoyed a fun day out at the WA Archery Centre last Friday in Whiteman Park.

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a powerful methodology which can drive significant improvements in equipment reliability and plant performance.

This video provides an introduction to best practice frameworks for planning, scheduling and delivering safe, efficient and effective maintenance.

If you can't measure something, then you can't improve it. If that is the case, then how can we measure the productivity of our maintenance managers?

In this 5 minute video, we answer four commonly asked questions regarding ISO 55000 - the international standard for asset management.

Regardless of how good your maintenance planning and scheduling is, if you want to make it more efficient and effective, you will need to continuously improve.

Let's understand the synergies that exist between ISO 9000 and ISO 55001, and how they might reduce costs and increase the benefits of asset management systems.

Have you ever thought about what makes a good work instruction, or how good work instructions improve work effectiveness?

Organisations spend thousands of dollars a year on maintenance planning and scheduling training, but does training ensure good application?

Ever had trouble justifying your maintenance budget to your accountants? Is it difficult to explain why it's better not to know when maintenance will occur?

Our Brisbane team enjoyed a fun day out at Belmont Shooting Complex last Friday. Check out some of the photos from the day, Jan even got a bullseye!