Posts by Paul McNamara
Enterprise 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…
Read MoreAgile Planning & Execution: How to Avoid Pileups in the Race to Market
One of the big keys to moving products to market with velocity is swift and effective decision making. It is the key to winning any race. In a rapidly changing competitive landscape, we must be agile and effective in our planning, decision-making, and execution processes. Our practices described below help our customers improve their competitive…
Read MoreSoar With New Competitive Asset Management Capabilities! If You Want to Accelerate, Take Your Foot off the Brakes.
The competitive landscape is changing fast. It is an exciting and dangerous time. New competitive requirements for speed and efficiency – doubling speed and reducing costs in half – cannot be achieved with historical approaches focused only on myopic views of asset performance, e.g. asset downtime, MTBF, OEE. While still important, rather than ends in…
Read MoreAvoid “The Grind.” Catch the Next Asset Management Wave!
According to the dictionary, when you grind something you use force to wear down, crush, or pulverize it. When we use “grind” to describe our work the characterization is stark. The “grind” produces moods of resignation, distrust, cynicism, and fatigue that are as unrelenting as the forces producing them. We don’t have to work in…
Read MoreIntroducing Scireo Accelerated Enterprise Asset Management, TRM
The most asset-intensive and costly part of any manufacturing business is its test equipment operations. Test equipment is an essential and very costly component of the product development process in engineering and the order to cash processes in manufacturing and field support/MRO. These processes are complex and costly, tend to be slow or erratic, and…
Read MoreIs Your Asset Management Team Focused on Winning?
Winning requires a full team effort, all seats filled with skilled players, everyone pulling in the same direction, and focused on the same outcome: winning. Winning teams are fun to be a part of and can be deeply meaningful to our business and career success. Today’s challenge is what constitutes a win is changing rapidly…
Read MoreAccelerated Enterprise Asset Management (TRM)
The most asset-intensive and costly part of any manufacturing business is its test equipment operations. Test equipment is an essential and very costly component of the product development process in engineering and the order to cash processes in manufacturing and field support/MRO. These processes are complex and costly, tend to be slow or erratic, and…
Read MoreVirtualizing TRM Feasibility, Planning & Install: Faster, Lower Cost, Accelerated Results
TRM (Accelerated Enterprise Asset Management) achieves 2X to 4X improvements to asset utilization, throughput, and speed compared with typical asset management solutions. You can now launch twice as fast getting results in 30 to 60 days! Great projects have great potential and get key constituents on board to drive the change with the knowledge and…
Read MoreCovid 19: How Hard Can you Push Before the Wheels Come off?
Winners push their limits by analyzing and producing a steady stream of high-value improvement opportunities and then quickly exploiting them to save money and time. Push too hard without these opportunities and the wheels come off as you pass process limits, greatly reduced by Covid-19. Don’t push hard enough and you lose to more capable…
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