Posts by Paul McNamara
Cut Calibration Costs, Improve Quality with Asset Management Algorithms
We have spent the better part of the last 25 years continually perfecting state-of-the-art asset management software tools and practices. We’ve focused on the unique test equipment environment. We help companies increase asset utilization, reduce calibration expense and improve compliance. Asset management is where we spend all of our time thinking, inventing, and investing. It…
Read MoreReduce Time-to-Market by Anticipating Constraints
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) was widely popularized in Eli Goldratt’s best-selling book, “The Goal.” In our work in test, we’ve leveraged these principles to produce award-winning Enterprise Asset Management capabilities and results. Our customer talks about the results they got from anticipating constraints and having strategies to overcome them in Digital Transformation: Asset Management…
Read MoreIncrease Equipment Utilization, Dramatically Increase Speed
Increase Equipment Utilization: Test Operations are High-Leverage Targets Test’s ubiquitous presence in mission-critical engineering, manufacturing, and MRO processes makes it uniquely high-leverage as a focus for cost containment and process acceleration. It was hands down why one customer-selected test equipment operations as the place to focus. Focus in this area is why another customer delivered…
Read MoreSoftware Accelerates Transformation When Designed With That Intent
Why Trust What we Say? The results we help our customers produce with our software are unmatched. You can hear one of our customers talk about it in a video linked to this blog post. In a marketplace understandably cynical about the claims of software vendors, the truth is in outcomes and we’ve produced them.…
Read MoreAccelerate Time-to-Market, Don’t Constrain It
Companies must accelerate time-to-market. Most executives wonder how hard they can push their teams before the wheels come off. When they do push they find weaknesses in their support departments. Support departments often slow processes down by the death of a thousand cuts. The cuts aren’t always visible but they always cost – time, energy,…
Read MoreOld Thinking Constrains Speed by Limiting Exploitation of Tools
“All wealth is the product of knowledge. Matter is conserved; progress consists of learning how to use it.” George Gilder – Economist, Investor, Author. Performance gaps are always knowledge and “capital structure” gaps. With new competitive requirements for better-than-incremental increases in speed, knowledge is the key. Human Capital, the first and most important capital…
Read MoreThe Key to Speed: The Right People Talking about the Right Things
When I coached my children’s sports team I was always after getting my players to talk with each other more…or at all…during their games. Businesses have the same problem. What I found over time is the best teams and best players generally talked the most about what matters. On the ice, on the bench, in…
Read MoreScaling Solutions for Simple Problems to Complex Environments Fails
The mistake so many people make when installing solutions in their business is not to consider whether the environment is ordered versus complex. In ordered environments, cause and effect can be understood with varying levels of skill. If the environment is complex, the ordered or simple solutions that often seek to “control” will never scale…
Read MoreEnterprise Asset Management Accelerates Facility Transformation
Covid-19 has accelerated transformation efforts across many industries. With the use of tools like Zoom and MS Teams making it possible to work effectively and satisfactorily from home, many enterprises are electing to redesign and consolidate their facilities. It is ironic that these moves, made possible by technology, may initially be thwarted by technology, particularly…
Read MoreDesigning and Executing a Plan is a Team Sport
Plans are only as good as your ability to execute them. Equipment plans or budgets are more than lists of equipment, they help fulfill intentions in a larger plan to bring products to market faster and increase margins, profitability, and growth. When plans are not designed and executed with these intentions in mind they can’t…
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